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last update 2014 that being said, it think 10 years later, linux should pick a data oriented shell (powershell or nushell) and go full in on it on windows, al
by systems 2y ago
last update 2014
that being said, it think 10 years later, linux should pick a data oriented shell (powershell or nushell) and go full in on it
on windows, almost all services have some Powershell support
i understand that on linux, command line support is always there, so unlike windows adding command line support is not really news, but still i think the move to a data oriented shell, is better
- ttyprintk 2y agoOn Windows, mv s:\src d:\dest Works as you expect. Now on some unimportant directory try: mv s:\src I have to think hard about an equivalently-stressful typo on another interactive shell.
- ttyprintk 2y agoI suppose in POSIX: sudo ifdown ens1 ; ifup ens1 But this one is easier to understand.
- ykonstant 2y agoI think POSIX mv is terrifying enough. I've found it to be much more dangerous than dd or rm.
- systems 2y agowell this is a critic of this one command, but how is it a critic of data oriented shells?
- ttyprintk 2y agoI'm probably just cranky. Moving files is a universal use-case, i.e. xargs predates Bourne. Maybe PowerShell hasn't arrived at the amount of reliability testing we expect from a data utility. If I saw it being used as such, I would ask for many assertions for both data manipulation and filesystem traversal.
- systems 2y agofor the record mv C:/folder will only delete if folder is empty