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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still won’t help me when I type ifconfig or dig, though.

Also I’ve noticed there is also a curl in Windows CLI that I believe is based on libcurl, but when called from powershell is an alias for (iirc) Invoke-WebRequest.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

ifconfig doesn't even work in a lot of Linux distros anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came across this one just yesterday and while it was convenient at first, I immediately got frustrated when I went to add some parameters and discovered it wasn’t actually curl

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic PoweShell experience. Try rm -rf - I wonder why they added the aliases in the first place. Only frustrating to type different arguments which are also more verbose. Tastes like the good ol' embrace-extend-extinguish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fortunately splitting up the arguments works in Powershell sometimes: rm -r -f