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> want to rename something? it's mv There is a rename command as well. But apart from the first time I tried to rename a file I've never had trouble rememberin
by flukus 9y ago
> want to rename something? it's mv
There is a rename command as well. But apart from the first time I tried to rename a file I've never had trouble remembering it. There is a good reason for it to, internally it is a move operation.
> want to tell the time? it's date
Is this different in powershell? Some quick googling indicates the Get-Date is the method you want and being .net based everything deals with DateTime objects.
> why is the command to download something curl/wget?
I find this easier to remember than Invoke-WebRequest, or is it Invoke-RestMethod?
If they were so hard to remember that could be aliased to something similar, but I've never seen anyone bother.
Edit - I mean I've never heard anyone going the other way and suggest doing "alias Invoke-WebRequest=\"curl\"" in bash.
- hirsin 9y agoThey're pre-aliased to curl and get. ls works too. Most of the options won't work of course.
- gruez 9y ago> why is the command to download something curl/wget? I find this easier to remember than Invoke-WebRequest, or is it Invoke-RestMethod? easier to remember: maybe, but much less discoverable than Invoke-WebRequest/Invoke-RestMethod. this seems to be the overall trend for linux shell commands. a few characters long for easy typing, but otherwise arbitrary strings that you have to remember and have 0 discoverability. GGP's comment was about how you had to search for how to do everything in powershell, so in that respect powershell is at least not worse than bash.