Setting an alias with attributes in PowerShell

Question

I wanted to set an alias for listing files in the directory, but Set-Alias -name lf -value ls -file does not seem to work. I intend to use this the Unix alias way.

Answer 1

An alias can't do that. From the help for Set-Alias:

You can create an alias for a cmdlet, but you cannot create an alias for a command that consists of a cmdlet and its parameters.

However, using a technique called "splatting", a function can do it easily:

function lf {
  ls -file @args
}

For more information, see help about_splatting.