Aliases

For the equivalent of gitbash aliases - where you create short keywords that you can run on the command line to execute longer command-line statements like cd commands:

• If you don’t already have it, create the following folder: C:\Users\[your-user-name]\Documents\WindowsPowerShell
• Ditto the following file: C:\Users\[your-user-name]\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
• In that file, add a function for each alias. So for instance, if you want an alias that takes you to a particular folder:

function myfolder { cd C:/development/parent-folder/myfolder }

• Open up Powershell in admin mode (Windows key + X, A or right-click on it in Windows start menu and choose Run as administrator)
• Run the following two commands in Powershell:

set-executionpolicy remotesigned
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

• (Actually the first might not be necessary - I think maybe you would need that one if you were going to create your alias in a separate Powershell script file and run it from there).
• Re-open Powershell (or just open a new tab, if you have Windows Terminal), and now if you type myfolder (or whatever your function was called) and enter, you should execute the action of your alias / function.
• It is possible to use a set-alias command in Powershell to set up aliases, but in this case that just seems to unnecessary extra layers of complexity. I think you would use that if you wanted to run something from a separate Powershell script. More here.

Environment variables

• Works differently in Powershell.
• For instance if you want to see your PATH env var, do it like this: $Env:Path