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How do you run an executable with the same name as an alias in powershell?

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Mar 15, 20263806 views

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sc.exe is a command line tool for manipulating services on windows. E.g. to list all the services on your machine you can type from a command prompt. However, if you do it from powershell, it instead executes Set-Content because sc is an alias for Set-Content. Even will execute the alias. How do I …

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