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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by digi_owl on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:34PM (#15620866)
And why, after so many years, MS introduced Powershell.

Now you can do a GUI-less Windows server install, as manage it completely over the CLI.

Never mind that with Windows 10 there is no damned way to tell Windows to request a new address from DHCP if the initial attempt failed. The only way to do so is via the CLI and ipconfig.

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by partycoder on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:50PM (#15621433)
Powershell is fine. However the Windows philosophy is different.

In Unix, "everything is a file", and what is not a file, is a program that can be configured or a CLI with arguments that can be passed in programatically.

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