What runs in PowerShell when I type "alias"?

Question

What runs in PowerShell when I run the "alias" command?

Is it an alias? A function? It appears that "alias" is itself an alias to the get-alias command. Yet alias itself does not show up in the list returned by get-alias. Is it being stripped out?

(This is out of curiosity, I'm not planning on re-aliasing "alias" or anything crazy.)

Answer 1

In powershell, if a command does not immediately match something in the command search path, it will prepend it with "get-" and try again. So when you type "alias," powershell will retry with "get-alias" if the former is not matched against a command.

-Oisin