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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by dpark on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:00PM (#10341894)
> but it does seem to make more sense from a readability perspective

Not really, as everything is given an unreadable alias anyway, and many are given multiple aliases: Copy-Item -> copy,cp,cpi. So there are just more names to learn.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by ckozlowski on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:18PM (#10342024)
You don't have to use the aliases though, and they don't tab complete (only the full name does)

Personally, I never use them. I saw them more as a help for people coming over from bash.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by dpark on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:48PM (#10342264)
You do have to use them unless you work alone. I regularly see PS1 files that use the various aliases, as well as the fully-named commands.
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