what is alias in powershell

so you say that you like Windows PowerShell, but you have problems remembering some of the cmdlet names? Well, then why not create an alias for those cmdlets, an alias that you can remember? For example, maybe you’d prefer to type show instead of Get-ChildItem


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Within PowerShell, an alias is another name assigned to a cmdlet, function, script, executable file, and so on. Just about anything you can run from the PowerShell command prompt can have an alias assigned to it