Aliases in PowerShell

Setting aliases in my PowerShell profile, wrapping commands that take parameters in a function first since Set-Alias can’t take them directly.

1# code $PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts
2code $PROFILE

1# Aliases for directories
2Function goToProjects { Set-Location -Path G:\Projects }
3
4Set-Alias -Name proj -Value goToProjects

• The profile for the current user is at $PROFILE, but there are other ones for various hosts and all users as well
• You can set aliases for commands, but you can not set aliases for commands that also take parameters. The workaround is to save the command with parameters as a function and then have an alias for that function instead of the command

Links

• About Profiles
• Set-Alias