Here’s another fast and furious Powershell tip. Even though Powershell has an alias for DIR, it is not the DIR command you’re used to. It is an alias to Get-ChildItem. This means if you are use to using commands like: <\/p>\n
C:\\> DIR *.exe \/w<\/font><\/p>\n This will fail in Powershell. I think there are some Powershell Community extensions to work around this and I think the Powershell team is also looking at this. Fortunately, there is a simple remedy. In Powershell simply invoke CMD and run the DIR command like you always have in the past:<\/p>\n PS C:\\Scripts> cmd \/c dir *.ps1 \/w \/od<\/font><\/p>\n You’ll never know the difference.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s another fast and furious Powershell tip. Even though Powershell has an alias for DIR, it is not the DIR command you’re used to. It is an alias to Get-ChildItem. This means if you are use to using commands like DIR *.exe \/w ,this will fail in Powershell. Fortunately, there is a simple remedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t