| Every command has a short name. A handy "punctuations" cheatsheet I found on reddit: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/wp-content/uploads/2015... Short aliases for all major commands: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/table-of-basic-powe... Some commands have more than one alias, and you can set your own, of course. PowerShell also has a very nice help system. For any commands that Microsoft provides, you can type : Get-Help Get-ChildItem It will list all the various parameters, as well as the various aliases. As far as return values, you can do $? or type out $LastExitCode - it works the same way you expect. For a fuller help view you can type "help Get-ChildItem" (all commands and parameters are NOT case-sensitive - it does not care if you type LS or ls, get-childitem vs GET-CHILDITEM does not matter). I prefer this - it helps in remembering. |