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PowerShell has other ones in addition to the cannibalistic ones. `Get-ChildItem` has `gci` and the command in question, `Invoke-WebRequest` has `iwr` on top of `wget` and `curl`. Admittedly, it's pretty kitchen sinky.


So, there’s already a solution.


Those are not discoverable in the same way.




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