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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 178 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I like that you actually can ls in power shell now

[–] TheChefSLC@lemmy.sdf.org 56 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...

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 48 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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[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] DJArbz@lemmy.notmy.cloud 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 8 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

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 11 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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[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ______@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ______@lemm.ee 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.

[–] echindod@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Fish? I like fish.

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[–] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 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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[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PowerShell 7 is pretty sweet ngl

[–] UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev 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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[–] Halafax@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ew0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That's actually "-la", pal.

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[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 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

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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

mkdir is literally a DOS command homie.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Nintendo@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are DOS commands always so verbose?

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[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Well that's rude.....

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nodiet@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 37 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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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 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.

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 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.

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jvisick@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (2 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

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 30 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...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] stark@qlemmy.com 18 points 1 year ago

Thank Microsoft for PowerShell

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Cmd? What century is this? Use powershell

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 10 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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It'll always be "Bad command or file name" to me.

[–] NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

Yes but it can do "cd.."

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