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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gnu+utils+for+windows&t=fpas&ia=web

That's what I used, back when I still had MS-Windows installed...

feels good to say "it's been years", tho...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are DOS commands always so verbose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what did you say? say that again to my face, I dare you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I apologize. I didnt mean to offend anyone!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

echo @dir %1 %2 %3>%windir%\system32\ls.bat

Something like that should fix the problem, I think...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're no fun...

%0|%0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like that you actually can ls in power shell now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but tbh i really despise powershells syntax. But i'm happy it is pretty powerful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i’m often amazed at microsoft’s ability to take a useful product and make it agonizing to use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, bash syntax isnt amazing either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I've said this before and got grilled for it but I wish there was a shell scripting language that doesn't have arcane syntax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fish? I like fish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, yes you can.

Also, WSL and windows terminal go a very long way in making windows actually usable...