From 35fba5718d125af487ec5f3393aaa35d7be7f244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Hindenes <trond@hindenes.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:46:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix: fixes new-alias bug when debugging powershell
 (#17816)

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1 b/lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1
index 17b692f2154..7823c048aca 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1
@@ -154,8 +154,12 @@ Function Get-AnsibleParam($obj, $name, $default = $null, $resultobj, $failifempt
     }
 }
 
-#Alias Get-attr-->Get-AnsibleParam for backwards compat.
-New-Alias -Name Get-attr -Value Get-AnsibleParam
+#Alias Get-attr-->Get-AnsibleParam for backwards compat. Only add when needed to ease debugging of scripts
+If (!(Get-Alias -Name "Get-attr" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue))
+{
+    New-Alias -Name Get-attr -Value Get-AnsibleParam
+}
+
 
 # Helper filter/pipeline function to convert a value to boolean following current
 # Ansible practices