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[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I like that you actually can ls in power shell now

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, yes you can.

Also, WSL and windows terminal go a very long way in making windows actually usable...

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Usable" is a strong statement... It went from a "misery inducing insufferable machine" to a "extremely big annoyance". I do concede it is anyway a progress

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just add Winget with an UI to have a proper package manager and we're in

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Package manager with a UI? I like my apt and dnf thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still use winget by itself from the command line! The UI is just there for convenience and automation

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The UI is just there for ... automation

Wut?

I've never gone to a UI when I want to automate something, a sane CLI is much more predictable and consistent.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PowerShell 7 is pretty sweet ngl

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I really want to love the "everything is an object" of power shell but I just have zero uses for using a shell on windows. Granted, my windows usage is like 15 minutes a week most of the time, but still. I also can't be bothered to use it for work because it's exclusively Linux/linux-ish over there so it's not worth bothering.

Either way, I like the idea, can't really justify figuring out the details.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

As long as you don't have ls aliased to ls -la in your brain...

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

Yeah but tbh i really despise powershells syntax. But i'm happy it is pretty powerful.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

i’m often amazed at microsoft’s ability to take a useful product and make it agonizing to use

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah. I've said this before and got grilled for it but I wish there was a shell scripting language that doesn't have arcane syntax.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bash came out decades ago and powershell is brand new. It doesn't really have an excuse to suck.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can suppress 30 years of " -al" from following his buddy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That's actually "-la", pal.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm so sorry but this is how I pictured your response lmao

Image

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also rm, cat, mkdir, cd, curl, what else

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

mkdir is literally a DOS command homie.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what did you say? say that again to my face, I dare you.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are DOS commands always so verbose?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Well that's rude.....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Too many letters

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

use powershell (specifically the core version!!!), or even better something like Nu shell

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add ls.bat in your windows directory with dir as the source. It basically acts as an alias.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

echo @dir %1 %2 %3>%windir%\system32\ls.bat

Something like that should fix the problem, I think...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Thank Microsoft for PowerShell

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Cmd? What century is this? Use powershell

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m gonna take it a step further and say to use the new Terminal app from the winapp store which lets you integrate ALL command lines into one app and it looks snazzy to boot!

Check it out mother fuckers!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It'll always be "Bad command or file name" to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes but it can do "cd.."

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