Replacements for ampersand and double-ampersand in PowerShell

The & operator in PowerShell is just the ; or Semicolon.

The && operator in PowerShell has to be run as an if statement.

Command ; if($?) {Command}

Example:

tsc ; if($?) {node dist/run.js}

Try this function, which can be used roughly the same way:

function aa() {
    if($?) {
        $command = [string]::join(' ', $args[1..99])
        & $args[0] $command
    }
}

Now && can be replaced with ; aa, which while still not perfect is a lot more succinct.

cls && build

becomes

cls; aa build

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