I like that you actually can ls in power shell now
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Yes, yes you can.
Also, WSL and windows terminal go a very long way in making windows actually usable...
Just add Winget with an UI to have a proper package manager and we're in
Package manager with a UI? I like my apt and dnf thank you very much.
You can still use winget by itself from the command line! The UI is just there for convenience and automation
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.
Winget-UI specifically can run the upgrade tool automatically for you, that's what I meant for "automation". You could also add a scheduler to run Winget by itself every day if you need to.
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Yeah but tbh i really despise powershells syntax. But i'm happy it is pretty powerful.
i’m often amazed at microsoft’s ability to take a useful product and make it agonizing to use
Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either
But Powershell is worse
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.
Fish? I like fish.
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Bash came out decades ago and powershell is brand new. It doesn't really have an excuse to suck.
I hope I didn't come across as defending ps. PS sucks and whoever decided to have functions use capital case with dashes in between needs to have their brain scanned
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As long as you don't have ls aliased to ls -la in your brain...
PowerShell 7 is pretty sweet ngl
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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If you can suppress 30 years of " -al" from following his buddy.
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Dir?
what did you say? say that again to my face, I dare you.
I apologize. I didnt mean to offend anyone!
Well that's rude.....
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use powershell (specifically the core version!!!), or even better something like Nu shell
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echo dir %1 %2 %3>%windir%\system32\ls.bat
Something like that should fix the problem, I think...
Add ls.bat in your windows directory with dir as the source. It basically acts as an alias.
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.
ifconfig doesn't even work in a lot of Linux distros anymore.
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
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.
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Thank Microsoft for PowerShell
It'll always be "Bad command or file name" to me.
Yes but it can do "cd.."
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