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[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I like that you actually can ls in power shell now

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, yes you can.

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

[–] Zeth0s 54 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 2 years 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] 25 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] affiliate 36 points 2 years ago

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

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

Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Fish? I like fish.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

PowerShell 7 is pretty sweet ngl

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

That's actually "-la", pal.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] Nintendo 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AnUnusualRelic 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are DOS commands always so verbose?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Well that's rude.....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Too many letters

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[–] w2tpmf 17 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] over_clox 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Thank Microsoft for PowerShell

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Cmd? What century is this? Use powershell

[–] stevedidWHAT 11 points 2 years 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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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yes but it can do "cd.."

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