Why doesn't "exit" show as a PowerShell command?

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Noticed something curious today. We all (probably) know exit will end your current PowerShell session (or exit a remote PSSession). However, neither Get-Command or Get-Alias return anything for it (errors truncated below):

Get-Command exit # ==> The term 'exit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet....
Get-Alias exit # ====> This command cannot find a matching alias....

So... what is it?

codewario · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-10 14:43:01Z

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exit is a keyword, not a command/cmdlet. See about_Language_Keywords for more information.

Others keywords (eg. if) also exhibit the same behavior when used with Get-Command / Get-Alias.

edited Sep 10, 2021 at 14:43

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