commands detail - c

The PowerShell equivalent of cd is:

…although there is a builtin PowerShell alias cd which points at

The unix clear command clears your screen. The Powershell equivalent to the unix clear is

PowerShell also has built-in alias for clear-host.

However, it’s possibly worth noting that the behaviour of the two commands is slightly different between the two environments.

The Powershell Clear-host on the other hand seems to wipe the previous output (actually in the same way that cmd’s command does….). This could be quite a significant difference, depending on what you want to clear and why!

The Posh version of cp is

The following are built-in aliases for copy-item: