PSSpeedDial

An Extensible Aliasing Framework for PowerShell

Description

Do you have an ever-growing/changing set of long PowerShell commands that you use regularly?

Don't waste your time coming up with new aliases for them over and over that clutter up your $profile and pollute your namespace.

Instead, try PSSpeedDial, an extensible aliasing framework for PowerShell.

General Instructions

Step 1

List your common commands in some specially-named text files on separate lines.

Step 2

Dot-source the SpeedDial.ps1 script in your $profile and alias its functions.

Step 3

Call one of the functions with the line number you want as the argument, or with no arguments to see your available options.

Quick Start

Execute the following commands in PowerShell:

git clone https://github.com/wharvex/PSSpeedDial.git
Copy-Item -Path .\PSSpeedDial\SpeedDialFiles_example\ -Destination "$env:USERPROFILE\SpeedDialFiles" -Recurse
. .\PSSpeedDial\SpeedDial.ps1
Invoke-Cd-On-X

And you should see the following output:

1 : C:\Users\[you]\OneDrive\Notes
2 : C:\Users\[you]\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\Scripts
3 : C:\Users\[you]\OneDrive\Projects

Congratulations! You just called one of the SpeedDial functions without arguments and it displayed your available options as output.

Examples

You can run

Invoke-Cd-On-X 1

to invoke cd on the path after the colon on line 1 of the "available options" output. Or you can run

Invoke-Cd-On-X 2

to invoke cd on the path after the colon on line 2, etc...

Now simply edit the files in "$env:USERPROFILE\SpeedDialFiles" so they contain the common things you wish to access on your own machine, and you're up and running!

Available Functions

Once you dot-source SpeedDial.ps1, the following functions will be available to you:

Invoke-Cd-On-X
Invoke-Start-On-X
Invoke-Vim-On-X
Invoke-Icm-On-X