This is a good suggestion. Please submit it.
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Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
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Microsoft Corporation
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"Alex K. Angelopoulos [MVP]" <a k a @ m v p s . o r g> wrote in message
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> I'd like to suggest that these two Export cmdlets (and their corresponding
> importers) be consolidated into Export-Object/Import-Object cmdlets.
>
> It would reduce verb confusion. We have Export-Alias and Export-Console,
> where the noun clearly indicates what is being exported. With Clixml and
> Csv, we are specifying the format of the export.
>
> It's a good Less Is More modification. The generic Object noun is already
> used for object manipulation, so people are likely to guess that this is
> the right noun for export/import. Specific formats can then be handled by
> a -Format or -As parameter.
>
> Opinions?
>