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He might be referring to powershell ... I never use CMD anymore. I first started using it a few years back because it uses 'ls' instead of 'dir' for a director
by alexc05 11y ago
He might be referring to powershell ... I never use CMD anymore.
I first started using it a few years back because it uses 'ls' instead of 'dir' for a directory list. Over time I've learned more and more about how its improved over CMD... and it has gotten even better in windows 10.
May not quite be 100% as good as terminal on OSX but it really is very good.
Funny annecdote. I was at a clojure meetup last night tapping away on my windows 10 laptop and the developer behind me said "is that Ubuntu?" I told him that it was W10 and he said "wow, I guess I might finally have to admit that windows doesn't look terrible anymore"
I felt like that was pretty high praise given the audience.
- dingo_bat 11y agoEven cmd is much improved in win 10. Text reflow, free zize windows, sane selection, etc. But nothing can make up for the lack of built-in, out-of-the-box UNIX utilities like cat, grep and the works.
- alexc05 11y agoMy "workaround" for that is to install git-scm https://git-scm.com/ https://git-scm.com/ and select "yes" at the install Unix tools prompt. I am not certain that it is perfect and you're 100% right that it's not "native" but it might help ease your pain a little.