Powershell – Creating Aliases for commands

Would you like to learn how to create command aliases using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to create a command alias on a computer running Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 2022
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

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Tutorial Powershell – Creating Aliases for commands

As an Administrator, start a new Powershell command-line.

Create a command alias.

Verify the existence of the new command alias.

Here is the command output:

Test the Powershell command alias.

Here is the command output:

There are multiple ways to create command aliases.

Optionally, create an alias that uses a function.

Test the Powershell command alias.

Here is the command output:

Congratulations! You are able to create command aliases using Powershell.