Enable Set-Clipboard and Get-Clipboard aliases about clipboardtext

[mklement0]

Thanks for the suggestion, @gsacavdm, but given that we're only talking about 2 cmdlets, I'd rather not add another one just for enabling aliases.

[gsacavdm]

Good point. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[mklement0]

Thanks, @gsacavdm, but I deliberately chose to avoid the names Set-Clipboard / Get-Clipboard, because the functions in the module at hand are not full replacements for the Windows PowerShell cmdlets bearing those names: this module's function can handle only text, whereas the latter can also handle file objects (analogous to copying and pasting files in File Explorer), and Get-Clipboard can additionally retrieve image and audio data.

• If your scripts target PS Core only, there's no problem: you need to install/import this module anyway, and your scripts should then call Set-ClipboardText / Get-ClipboardText

• If your scripts target both PS Core and WinPS, and you don't want to install this module for the latter, you can do something like the following:

if ($PSVersionTable.PSEdition -ne 'Core') {
  Set-Alias Set-ClipboardText Set-Clipboard
  Set-Alias Get-ClipboardText Get-Clipboard
}

[gsacavdm]

Hey @mklement0 , thank you for your response.

I assumed this was deliberate but wanted to confirm.

Did you also consider having an Enable-ClipboardAlias command that sets up the alias on their behalf similarly to what the new Az module does with the Enable-AzureRmAlias?