Since I have lots of aliases and functions in my profile, frequently I need to search them by some pattern.
This Powershell function lets me do just that.
function ff {
param(
[string]$Pattern
)
# Define the path to the PowerShell profile
$profilePath = $PROFILE
# Check if the profile exists
if (-not (Test-Path $profilePath)) {
Write-Host "Profile script does not exist at $profilePath"
return
}
# Define the patterns to search for aliases and functions
$patterns = "Set-Alias.*$Pattern", "New-Alias.*$Pattern", "function.*$Pattern"
# Search the profile for the specified pattern
# Select-String -Path $profilePath -Pattern $patterns
Select-String -Path $profilePath $patterns
}
Now, all I need to do is type this to find the matching line and the actual function in my profile.
> ff <pattern>
