Parameter Name aliases in PowerShell provides an option to give the shortest aliases name for the parameters. For instance, for most of the cmdlets will be engaging with -computername this can be re-written in aliases as -cn
PS C:UsersM.Karthikeyan> (get-command get-eventlog |
select -ExpandProperty parameters)
The above command will list out the available parameters for get-eventlog cmdlet
PS C:UsersM.Karthikeyan> (get-command get-eventlog |
select -ExpandProperty parameters).computername.aliases Cn
For instance, normal cmdlets can be rewritten as
get-eventlog -Cn localhost -LN System -Newest 10