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Setting Default Parameters in Powershell

Jeffrey Hicks doesn’t have time for parameters:

A quick post today to remind you of a way to make PowerShell even easier to use. PowerShell cmdlets and functions obviously help us get a lot done, and most commands offer a number of parameters to customize what needs to be done. Unless you love typing, you probably would like an even easier way to use PowerShell. Let me show you.

Read on to see how. My one concern here would be if you forget about the parameters, you may end up with unexpected results compared to people without your default parameters. This seems to me a case for using these defaults somewhat sparingly.