Sometimes it's easy to forget the little things that have made my life with PowerShell much better and more efficient. PowerShell's verb-noun command structure is great, but when I'm typing away in the shell I prefer brevity. While the command 'Get-Alias' might sounds like it would tell you what alias(es) are available for a particular command that you're tired of typing the full name of, it doesn't. So I created a quick little one-liner in my user profile:
function Get-Aliases ($cmd) { Get-Alias | where { $_.Definition -eq $cmd } }
This simply gets all the defined aliases and compares the definition of each alias to the command you specify. Any alias that matches is written to output. But since 'Get-Aliases' can be a bit long I use an alias for it:
Set-Alias gals Get-Aliases
And that's it! Now we can run:
PS> gals get-command
CommandType Name Definition
----------- ---- ----------
Alias gcm get-command
Little shortcuts like learning aliases can go a long way to improving your experience. Have fun with them!