PowerTip: PowerShell One-Liner to Find Short Aliases
Summary: Use this Windows PowerShell one-liner to find one-, two-, three-, and four-letter aliases.
How can I use a Windows PowerShell one-liner to find the number of default aliases that are one, two, three,
and four letters long?
Use the range operator to create an array with 1 through 4 numbers, pipe the results to the
Foreach-Object cmdlet, multiply the number with a wildcard character, and pipe the results to Measure:
1..4 | % {(gal ("?"*$_) | measure).count}