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sdwheeler opened this issue Jun 8, 2018 · 1 comment
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PR #2022 was merged, but the linked PR PowerShell/PowerShell#5815 was never merged and actually closed because of inactivity.
These cmdlets are in the official docs now https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/convertfrom-clixml?view=powershell-6 but don't actually exist:

$ ConvertFrom-Clixml
ConvertFrom-Clixml : The term 'ConvertFrom-Clixml' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ ConvertFrom-Clixml
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ConvertFrom-Clixml:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

This is very misleading.

Version(s) of document impacted

  • Impacts 6.1 document
  • Impacts 6.0 document
  • Impacts 5.1 document
  • Impacts 5.0 document
  • Impacts 4.0 document
  • Impacts 3.0 document

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Same with PowerShell 5.1. It's listed in the docs but doesn't exist in the actual language. Gave me false hope.

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