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Understand terse commands - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell 7 Essential Training
Understand terse commands
- [Instructor] Now as you start to utilize PowerShell, you'll find that the commands can often be complicated to remember or we're not quite sure what the syntax would be. So one of the nice things about PowerShell, which we already looked at, but let's just remember this is if I was to use a command called Get-Command and I wanted to put this as a table format I would type Get-Command Format-Table. And that would return that specific information. So I can say Format-Table. Now that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 12 characters for Format-Table. When in reality, we can shorten this down and make that ft, so Get-Command Format-Table. Now, of course not every command can actually do that. So this is what's called terse command. So this is the ability to basically reduce the amount of texts that we write, so get rid of Format-Table to its abbreviation called ft. Now another example of this…
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