Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell

Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by FLGMwt on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:20AM (#12320163)

PowerShell has other ones in addition to the cannibalistic ones. `Get-ChildItem` has `gci` and the command in question, `Invoke-WebRequest` has `iwr` on top of `wget` and `curl`. Admittedly, it's pretty kitchen sinky.

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kuschku on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:29AM (#12320710)

So, there’s already a solution.

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:42AM (#12320832)

Those are not discoverable in the same way.

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