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My most used windows command is, and will always be, `ls`. Then I'm reminded that it's not a know file or directory.
by Akuehne 6mo ago
My most used windows command is, and will always be, `ls`.
Then I'm reminded that it's not a know file or directory.
- IcyWindows 6mo agoIt's been nearly 20 years since powershell came out.
- SoftTalker 6mo agoAnd we had cygwin before that. First thing I always installed on a Windows box so I could use bash and all my favorite utilities.
- moi2388 6mo agoAnd it still sucks
- smackeyacky 6mo agoCygwin was so much work but you’re still stuck in windows.
- deleted 6mo ago[deleted]
- gib444 6mo agoSame! Closely followed by 'cat' lol. 'type' just doesn't register in my brain
- chasil 6mo agoVMS also uses type to dump a file to stdout. I understand that DEC TOPS 20 influenced CP/M and MS-DOS, so that could be the source for type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20 Edit: type has its own wiki, and TOPS-20 implemented it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPE_(DOS_command) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPE_(DOS_command)
- red_admiral 6mo agoBack before "type" we had "copy FILE CON".
- GoblinSlayer 6mo agoOn one our linux machine filesystem became strange, probably because somebody mistyped `ls /bin` as `ln /bin`. I think docs say hardlinking folders is impossible or maybe /bin was a symlink.
- m4ck_ 6mo agoIt's 2026, you should not be using command prompt (or batch.) In powershell ls is a built in alias to get-childitem and has been for years, and in recent versions of windows you'd have to go out of your way to get a command prompt (you would have to open a powershell terminal and then run cmd.)