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> Microsoft has been shipping curl.exe for a while as well, though not the library. I'm not sure if this is accurate. Why do they include a default alias in Po

> Microsoft has been shipping curl.exe for a while as well, though not the library. I'm not sure if this is accurate. Why do they include a default alias in Powershell for `curl` that points to the `Invoke-WebRequest` cmdlet then? I've always installed curl myself and removed the alias on Windows. Maybe I've never noticed the default one because of that.

easton 2y ago
As of one of the later releases of Windows 10, "curl.exe" is in System32 (or somewhere else on PATH), but if you type "curl" in a powershell you get the alias. You need to type "curl.exe" to get the binary. Guessing this is for backwards compatibility with scripts written for the days when it was just PowerShell lying to you. https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html
jasomill 2y ago
curl.exe does ship with Windows. Given a Windows 11 ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft.com, we have $ 7z l /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim | egrep ' 1/Windows/Sys.*/curl.exe' 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 672312 343918 1/Windows/System32/curl.exe 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 585160 323710 1/Windows/SysWOW64/curl.exe This is, in fact, curl: > C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe --version curl 8.9.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.9.1 Schannel zlib/1.3 WinIDN Release-Date: 2024-07-31 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats. ["1/…" is 7z syntax for the first image in the WIM file — Windows 11 Home, in this example — included here to avoid redundant output; curl.exe is included in all images. "…/SysWOW64/curl.exe" is a 32-bit curl build (32-bit Windows programs see "Windows\SysWOW64" as "Windows\System32").]
- formerly_proven 2y ago
  > My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats. TIL. However, some caveats: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2092 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2092

easton 2y ago

As of one of the later releases of Windows 10, "curl.exe" is in System32 (or somewhere else on PATH), but if you type "curl" in a powershell you get the alias. You need to type "curl.exe" to get the binary. Guessing this is for backwards compatibility with scripts written for the days when it was just PowerShell lying to you. https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html

jasomill 2y ago

curl.exe does ship with Windows. Given a Windows 11 ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft.com, we have $ 7z l /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim | egrep ' 1/Windows/Sys.*/curl.exe' 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 672312 343918 1/Windows/System32/curl.exe 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 585160 323710 1/Windows/SysWOW64/curl.exe This is, in fact, curl: > C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe --version curl 8.9.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.9.1 Schannel zlib/1.3 WinIDN Release-Date: 2024-07-31 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats. ["1/…" is 7z syntax for the first image in the WIM file — Windows 11 Home, in this example — included here to avoid redundant output; curl.exe is included in all images. "…/SysWOW64/curl.exe" is a 32-bit curl build (32-bit Windows programs see "Windows\SysWOW64" as "Windows\System32").]

formerly_proven 2y ago
> My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats. TIL. However, some caveats: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2092 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2092