Powershell beginner tutorial step by step – Easy Way

Lets say You want to change the Working Directory then we use command cd in command prompt but in PowerShell we use CMDlets

We need to Run – Set-Location to change Directory

Example: Set-Location C:Intel

After that lets Check Current Working Directory then we run Command as pwd

We can get the same result

Example: Pwd

Now lets say we want know which powershell commands running at the backend to know that we need to run a command as Get-Alias -Name pwd

PS C:Intel Get-Alias -Name pwd

CommandType Name Definition
———– —- ———-
Alias pwd Get-Location

Lets pick few more examples

Like List the Directory we run Dir in Windows ls Unix

These two commands are linked to Get-ChildItem

PS C:Intel Get-Alias -Definition Get-ChildItem

CommandType Name Definition
———– —- ———-
Alias dir Get-ChildItem
Alias gci Get-ChildItem
Alias ls Get-ChildItem

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