Oh, it can be. The confusion lies around the fact that you can do basic things half a dozen ways, and I also used some shorter aliases (eg Get-ChildItem (or gci

Oh, it can be. The confusion lies around the fact that you can do basic things half a dozen ways, and I also used some shorter aliases (eg Get-ChildItem (or gci, or ls) Sort-Object (sort) Select-Object (select)) You can sort of choose what level of verbosity you want to encode in your scripts for your sanity at a later date.