Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late...
by UnoriginalGuy on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:58PM
(#12989615)
> Walk into any office and ask an IT guy to run "ipconfig". They'll open up cmd.exe without even thinking about it.
Absolutely because of twenty years of muscle memory.
But once Powershell is the default and they learn about the wonderful "gip" alias, they'll be hooked. "gip" in case people don't know is an alias for Get-NetIpConfiguration which is a more powerful version of IPConfig.
PS - "gip -all" is useful. "gip -all -d" for more detailed results.
Absolutely because of twenty years of muscle memory.
But once Powershell is the default and they learn about the wonderful "gip" alias, they'll be hooked. "gip" in case people don't know is an alias for Get-NetIpConfiguration which is a more powerful version of IPConfig.
PS - "gip -all" is useful. "gip -all -d" for more detailed results.