You can bypass this problem by appending ".exe" to the end of your command anyway, as in, "curl.exe" instead of "curl" fixes the alias problem and allows native

You can bypass this problem by appending ".exe" to the end of your command anyway, as in, "curl.exe" instead of "curl" fixes the alias problem and allows native curl to run. Alternatively you can use a fully qualified path (c:/utils/curl.exe). Technologically it is trivial to bypass the alias. But that doesn't mean the curl/wget people don't have a legit point about trademark usage and or incompatible args between the cmdlet (actually Invoke-WebRequest) and original UNIX utilities.