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Spivak on Aug 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'w...

The half-way solution could have been making the 'aliases' output migration documentation about how to accomplish common takes with the PS commands.

That way PS would be far more discoverable to a UNIX person and would save time searching "$command in powershell".

emodendroket on Aug 19, 2016 [–]

Yeah but frankly it also sucks to type in such a long command rather than using the aliases.

contextfree on Aug 19, 2016 | [–]

Most of the commands have PS "native" aliases which also follow a more consistent pattern, e.g., get-childitem->gci, invoke-webrequest->iwr.

emodendroket on Aug 19, 2016 | | [–]

That's true, but after years of typing "ls" into terminals that's just more natural.

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