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Should have lead that comment with "I'm on Windows, so". Of course it's going to be miserable to use any command-line tool on Windows. It's Windows.

kayone 11y ago
I'm not sure why you feel like that, I switched back to Windows after ~1 year of using OSX, I wouldn't say its "miserable" there is really nothing I could do in OSX's command line that can't do in windows.
- barbs 11y ago
  What is your Windows command-line environment? Plain CMD prompt or Cygwin? Or something else?
  - kentt 11y ago
    I don't get agree with your parent, but I used cygwin when I was on Windows and it mostly does what you want if you just need basic command line tools. The major annoyances were packages were limited, compiling anything was generally a disaster and file permissions between linux/windows are a mess. I happily used it everyday though.
  - gutnor 11y ago
    Powershell is very powerful and for windows it beats cygwin/mingw. Not quite sure how it measure against Linux shells running on Linux, but Microsoft has really made a proper shell for windows, too bad it looks so different. Obviously if you work in a cross-platform environment, cygwin/mingw is still the only thing that will provide you some sort of consistency in your workflow on Windows machines.
  - kayone 11y ago
    I use git bash, with conemu, to be honest I don't do anything crazy but most of the linux commands I need day to day just work.
- cyphar 11y ago
  I feel like you can't have really scratched the surface on what you can do in a real Unix shell. I doubt that Windows has support for things I use all the time (like command substitution <(some command) where the output of a command appears to be a file to a program).
  - cdcarter 11y ago
    I doubt you've used Powershell. Using objects on the cmdline is pretty ballin.
kuma4 11y ago
I feel wget in PowerShell is useful. PS> $page = wget http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ PS> $page.Images | sort width | select src, width, height | Export-Csv -Encoding utf8 images.CSV

kayone 11y ago

I'm not sure why you feel like that, I switched back to Windows after ~1 year of using OSX, I wouldn't say its "miserable" there is really nothing I could do in OSX's command line that can't do in windows.

barbs 11y ago
What is your Windows command-line environment? Plain CMD prompt or Cygwin? Or something else?
- kentt 11y ago
  I don't get agree with your parent, but I used cygwin when I was on Windows and it mostly does what you want if you just need basic command line tools. The major annoyances were packages were limited, compiling anything was generally a disaster and file permissions between linux/windows are a mess. I happily used it everyday though.
- gutnor 11y ago
  Powershell is very powerful and for windows it beats cygwin/mingw. Not quite sure how it measure against Linux shells running on Linux, but Microsoft has really made a proper shell for windows, too bad it looks so different. Obviously if you work in a cross-platform environment, cygwin/mingw is still the only thing that will provide you some sort of consistency in your workflow on Windows machines.
- kayone 11y ago
  I use git bash, with conemu, to be honest I don't do anything crazy but most of the linux commands I need day to day just work.
cyphar 11y ago
I feel like you can't have really scratched the surface on what you can do in a real Unix shell. I doubt that Windows has support for things I use all the time (like command substitution <(some command) where the output of a command appears to be a file to a program).
- cdcarter 11y ago
  I doubt you've used Powershell. Using objects on the cmdline is pretty ballin.

kuma4 11y ago

I feel wget in PowerShell is useful. PS> $page = wget http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ PS> $page.Images | sort width | select src, width, height | Export-Csv -Encoding utf8 images.CSV