Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe #5827
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PR Summary
SC is a default alias for Set-Content, however on Windows there is a sc.exe command for managing NT Services.
If a user executes
sc start service1in a PowerShell script, what happens is that a file calledstartis created containingservice1as the content with no error so the user/script may think the service got started.In addition, there is also a
sccommand on Linux, although it's not installed by default.If the customer feedback is that we should not have removed this, it'll be easier to add it back in 6.1.0 than to ever try to remove it after 6.0.0.
Fix is to remove
scalias from InitialSessionState and corresponding test case.This was discussed with some members of @PowerShell/powershell-committee whom agreed to the removal.
Doc change MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs#2021
Fix #3980
PR Checklist
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