How to Export Alias in PowerShell

Export-Alias cmdlet in PowerShell is used to export the aliases in the current session to a file. Export-Alias can export aliases from the current scope or all scopes and output them to a CSV file or a text file.

Export-Alias cmdlet uses the Path parameter to specify the name of the file path that contains the alias information. If the file doesn’t exist, the command will create it.

In this article, we will discuss how to export an alias in PowerShell using the Export-Alias cmdlet.

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1 How to Export an Alias in PowerShell

2 Conclusion

How to Export an Alias in PowerShell

Use the Export-Alias cmdlet to export the current session alias information to a file specified by the Path parameter.

 Export-Alias -Path D:\PS\Alias.txt

In the above PowerShell script, Export-Alias uses the Path parameter to specify the file path and exports all alias lists from the current session to the Alias.txt file.

To read the content of alias information that was just exported using the Export-Alias command, use the following command.

Get-Content -Path D:\PS\Alias.txt

In the above PowerShell script, the Get-Content cmdlet in PowerShell reads the content of the file and displays it on the terminal.

The output of the above command contains alias information as follows:

PS C:\> Get-Content -Path D:\PS\Alias.txt         
                                                                      
# Alias File
# Exported by : ShellGeek
# Date/Time : 30 July 2022 18:57:47
# Computer : INCORP-EU-117

"foreach","ForEach-Object","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"%","ForEach-Object","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"where","Where-Object","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"?","Where-Object","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"ac","Add-Content","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"clc","Clear-Content","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"cli","Clear-Item","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"clp","Clear-ItemProperty","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"clv","Clear-Variable","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"compare","Compare-Object","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"cpi","Copy-Item","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"cpp","Copy-ItemProperty","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"cvpa","Convert-Path","","ReadOnly, AllScope"
"dbp","Disable-PSBreakpoint","","ReadOnly, AllScope