Section B.3. Aliases

B.3. Aliases

The standard set of aliases recreates the familiar behavior of the other command-line shells and ensures a consistent baseline experience for any MSH shell. Each alias maps to a standard cmdlet or defined function.

Note that some of these aliases (e.g., sc) may hide certain other applications present on your system. To run an external program, call it with its file extension (e.g., sc.exe) to make the distinction.

Some of the new aliases for commonly used commands are identified in bold.

Alias	Cmdlet
ac	add-content
clc	clear-content
cli	clear-item
clp	clear-property
clv	clear-variable
cpi	copy-item
cpp	copy-property
cvpa	convert-path
epal	export-alias
epcsv	export-csv
fc	format-custom
fl	format-list
foreach	foreach-object
ft	format-table
fw	format-wide
gal	get-alias
gc	get-content
gci	get-childitem
gcm	get-command
gdr	get-drive
ghy	get-history
gi	get-item
gl	get-location
gm	get-member
gp	get-property
gps	get-process
group	group-object
gsv	get-service
gu	get-unique
gv	get-variable
ic	invoke-command
ihy	invoke-history
ii	invoke-item
ipal	import-alias
ipcsv	import-csv
mi	move-item
mp	move-property
nal	new-alias
ndr	new-drive
ni	new-item
nv	new-variable
oh	out-host
rdr	remove-drive
ri	remove-item
rni	rename-item
rnp	rename-property
rp	remove-property
rv	remove-variable
rvpa	resolve-path
sal	set-alias
sasv	start-service
sc	set-content
select	select-object
si	set-item
sl	set-location
sleep	Start-Sleep
sort	sort-object
sp	set-property
spps	stop-process
spsv	stop-service
sv	set-variable
where	where-object
cat	get-content
cd	set-location
chdir	set-location
clear	clear-host
cls	clear-host
copy	copy-item
cp	copy-item
del	remove-item
dir	get-childitem
echo	write-object
erase	remove-item
h	get-history
history	get-history
kill	stop-process
lp	out-printer
ls	get-childitem
mount	new-drive
move	move-item
mv	move-item
popd	pop-location
ps	get-process
pushd	push-location
pwd	get-location
r	invoke-history
rd	remove-item
ren	rename-item
rm	remove-item
rmdir	remove-item
set	set-variable
type	get-content