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Add ls.bat in your windows directory with dir as the source. It basically acts as an alias.
Still won’t help me when I type
ifconfigordig, though.Also I’ve noticed there is also a curl in Windows CLI that I believe is based on libcurl, but when called from powershell is an alias for (iirc)
Invoke-WebRequest.I came across this one just yesterday and while it was convenient at first, I immediately got frustrated when I went to add some parameters and discovered it wasn’t actually
curlClassic PoweShell experience. Try
rm -rf- I wonder why they added the aliases in the first place. Only frustrating to type different arguments which are also more verbose. Tastes like the good ol' embrace-extend-extinguish.Fortunately splitting up the arguments works in Powershell sometimes:
rm -r -f