Creating a short PowerShell command equivalent to "rm -rf" in Bash

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(A Japanese translation is available here.)

In Bash, rm -rf deletes a file or a directory. In PowerShell, I would like to do the same thing in a short command as well. Therefore, I created a PowerShell function to do the job.

Introduction

Let's say that I want to delete target. In PowerShell, the following command does the job.

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force target

This is a long command even with tab completion. The following command is shortened version using officially provided aliases.

rm -r -fo target

This is still long when compared to rm -rf in Bash.
Therefore, I decided to create a PowerShell function, rmrf, for this job.

How to create the command

PowerShell profile needs to be created.
echo $profile displays the file path of the profile. If the file does not exist, create it first.

In PowerShell profile, add the following function.

	function rmrf {
	<#
	.DESCRIPTION
	Deletes the specified file or directory.

	.PARAMETER target
	Target file or directory to be deleted.

	.NOTES
	This is an equivalent command of "rm -rf" in Unix-like systems.
	#>
	Param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	[string]$Target
	)
	Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $Target
	}