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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kstrauser on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:19PM (#12321654)
It is, but the noise is telling you how it differs from what you'd normally expect and how to address it. I think that's an acceptable tradeoff.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:36PM (#12321803)
I think it is immediately obvious from the output that it's not the same program, without the message.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kstrauser on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:03PM (#12322615)
Really? What's the normal output? The content of the URL being fetched. If that message was to STDERR so that curl > foo worked without alteration but the help text still showed up on the console, I think fewer people would be surprised.

The number of bugs about this indicates that people are still being surprised.

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:36PM (#12322873)
That is not the output of the PoSh command. Like most of them it outputs a list of object properties and values: https://mcpmag.com/articles/2013/01/22/~/media/ECG/mcpmag/Im...
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