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Expand Aliases in PowerShell ISE Scripts and add an add-on
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#Source http://blogs.technet.com/b/pstips/archive/2015/02/04/don-t-use-aliases-in-your-scripts.aspx | |
function Expand-Aliases { | |
$ast = [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]::Tokenize( | |
$psISE.CurrentFile.Editor.Text, [ref]$null) | |
$commands = $ast | Where-Object { | |
$_.Type -eq [System.Management.Automation.PSTokenType]::Command } | |
$after = $psISE.CurrentFile.Editor.Text -split [System.Environment]::NewLine | |
$aliases = @{}; Get-Alias | ForEach-Object { | |
$aliases += @{$_.Name = $_.Definition} | |
} | |
$commands | Sort-Object StartLine, StartColumn -Descending | | |
Where-Object { $aliases.Contains($_.Content) } | ForEach-Object { | |
$def = $aliases["$($_.Content)"] | |
$after[$_.StartLine-1] = ([string]$after[$_.StartLine-1]).Remove($_.StartColumn-1, $_.Length).Insert($_.StartColumn-1, $def) | |
} | |
$psISE.CurrentFile.Editor.Text = $after -join [System.Environment]::NewLine | |
} | |
[void]$PSIse.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add( | |
"Expand Aliases", {Expand-Aliases}, 'Control+Alt+A') |
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