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Also, basic stuff like tab completion and so forth just doesn't exist in Powershell, copying/pasting is a nightmare Sorry but this just sounds like you don't k

by stinos 9y ago

Also, basic stuff like tab completion and so forth just doesn't exist in Powershell, copying/pasting is a nightmare Sorry but this just sounds like you don't know PS well enough. Run it under ConEmu, install PSReadline, PsFzf and a bunch of other goodies and those problems are gone. I'm not saying it's obvious, but there's enough tutorials out there for getting you up and running. opening Internet Exploder when I just wanna download a damn file via CLI! Again, seems like you are doing it wrong: > wget news.ycombinator.com StatusCode : 200 StatusDescription : OK Content : <html op="news"><head><meta name="referrer" ...

posguy 9y ago
Is your GNU wget busted? Should look like this: >wget news.ycombinator.com --2017-06-15 03:04:37-- http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ Resolving news.ycombinator.com (news.ycombinator.com)... 104.20.44.44, 104.20.43.44 I'm not gonna install a million plugins to fix Powershell, what incentive do I have? At this point Windows is a rapidly dying platform in Point of Sale, with SLES having fully replaced it in nearly every major US grocer. Nearly every interaction I have had with Powershell in the past 3 years has left me sad, angry, and frustrated. Building a decent shell isn't a monumental task, and I don't get why the occasional Windows box I touch is always a mess wrt Powershell.
- stinos 9y ago
  It's not GNU wget, wget is aliased to PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest. I should have shown that command probably. You don't have to install plugins, tab completion etc works out of the box, copy/paste as well but in a not too handy way, I was just suggesting how to make it better. Then again, I have yet to meet a shell and OS which has all tools I want out of the box so for me the 'I down't want to install stuff' point is moot. Though if it's not for you, that's fine but you might get stuck at times. Nearly every interaction I have had with Powershell in the past 3 years has left me sad, angry, and frustrated. That is certainly possible, but isn't that just the result of not knowing it well enough? I mean, I've felt the same when first learning bash years ago. I quickly figured it mostly wasn't because of bash, but rather my lack of knowledge and/or trying to do things my (conceived 'proper') way instead of the bash way.

by stinos 9y ago

posguy 9y ago

Is your GNU wget busted? Should look like this: >wget news.ycombinator.com --2017-06-15 03:04:37-- http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ Resolving news.ycombinator.com (news.ycombinator.com)... 104.20.44.44, 104.20.43.44 I'm not gonna install a million plugins to fix Powershell, what incentive do I have? At this point Windows is a rapidly dying platform in Point of Sale, with SLES having fully replaced it in nearly every major US grocer. Nearly every interaction I have had with Powershell in the past 3 years has left me sad, angry, and frustrated. Building a decent shell isn't a monumental task, and I don't get why the occasional Windows box I touch is always a mess wrt Powershell.

stinos 9y ago
It's not GNU wget, wget is aliased to PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest. I should have shown that command probably. You don't have to install plugins, tab completion etc works out of the box, copy/paste as well but in a not too handy way, I was just suggesting how to make it better. Then again, I have yet to meet a shell and OS which has all tools I want out of the box so for me the 'I down't want to install stuff' point is moot. Though if it's not for you, that's fine but you might get stuck at times. Nearly every interaction I have had with Powershell in the past 3 years has left me sad, angry, and frustrated. That is certainly possible, but isn't that just the result of not knowing it well enough? I mean, I've felt the same when first learning bash years ago. I quickly figured it mostly wasn't because of bash, but rather my lack of knowledge and/or trying to do things my (conceived 'proper') way instead of the bash way.