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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by contextfree on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:17PM (#12322139)
Most of the commands have PS "native" aliases which also follow a more consistent pattern, e.g., get-childitem->gci, invoke-webrequest->iwr.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:31PM (#12322276)
That's true, but after years of typing "ls" into terminals that's just more natural.
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