Windows PowerShell aliases can’t have parameters, you need to write a function.

On linux, you can create aliases for commonly used commands. These can be pretty much anything you like. Here’s an example, which creates a command called ports, which runs the stuff in quotes:

# List all the ports that are currently open, with the processes that are listening
alias ports="sudo netstat -tulpn | grep '^tcp' | awk '{print \$1,\$4,\$7}' | sort -n | uniq | column -t"

On Windows, PowerShell does support aliases, but doesn’t support parameters - they’re intended to just be single PowerShell Verb-Noun things, I think?

Anyway, if you want to run a command with some parameters, you have to create a function.

Here’s an example of creating a simple shortcut for git status:

# git status shortcut
alias gst='git status'

function GitStatus {git status}
New-Alias -Force -Name gst -Value GitStatus

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