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Computer programming portal; Type aliasing is a feature in some programming languages that allows creating a reference to a type using another name. It does not create a new type hence does not increase type safety.
An alias will last for the life of the shell session. Regularly used aliases can be set from the shell's rc file (such as .bashrc) so that they will be available upon the start of the corresponding shell session. The alias commands may either be written in the config file directly or sourced from a separate file.
Windows PowerShell provides the equivalent Get-Location cmdlet with the standard aliases gl and pwd. On Windows CE 5.0, the cmd.exe Command Processor Shell includes the pwd command. [16] pwd as found on Unix systems is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987.
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [9]
The PSReadLine [31] PowerShell module (which is shipped with version 5.0) provides the option to specify a CommandValidationHandler ScriptBlock which runs before submitting the command. This allows for custom correcting of commonly mistyped commands, and verification before actually running the command.
The directory stack underlies the functions of these two commands. It is an array of paths stored as an environment variable in the CLI, which can be viewed using the command dirs in Unix or Get-Location -stack in PowerShell. The current working directory is always at the top of the stack.
PowerShell 6.0. Ansible communicates with Windows servers over WinRM using the Python pywinrm package and can remotely run PowerShell scripts and commands. [4] Thycotic's Secret Server also leverages WinRM to enable PowerShell remoting. [5]
In Windows PowerShell, ren is a predefined command alias for the Rename-Item Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose. [29] TSL PC-MOS includes an implementation of rename. [30] Like the rest of the operating system, it is licensed under the GPL v3. [31] It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.