Make the -LiteralPath shorter in your Add- and Update-Solution cmdlets

I got tired of allways typing a very long -LiteralPath in my PowerShell cmdlets. So I went out on the Internet to visit Google and found this command.

Get-Location, or even shorter, the alias gl.

$curdir = gl
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath $curdir"\SharePointSolution.wsp"

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