When you’re learning PowerShell one of the first things you will notice is that you don’t have to use the full parameter name.  This is because of something called parameter disambiguation. When it works For instance, instead of saying Get-ChildItem -Recurse, you can say Get-ChildItem -R.  Get-ChildItem only has one (non-dynamic) parameter that started with the …

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