ls works on Windows just fine. PowerShell understands this command since a long time, maybe even since the very beginning (not looking through the git commits, just to find out).
Well who uses powershell? Common people open command prompt and it doesnât support ls.
Windows Terminal is shipped with Windows and defaults to PowerShell. Too bad Windows ships some ancient PS version by default but winget install Microsoft.PowerShell isn't that complicated.
I remember living in a place with such shitty internet I had scripts for ipconfig release and renew on my desktop because I needed them five times a day.
You could define Powershell as the default shell in Windows 10, so that you wouldn't need to explicitly invoke it every time - although, which (non-technical) user does this?
Windows 11 changed the default to Powershell so that you'll always land in Powershell and need to invoke the old CMD explicitly. Also the new Terminal (optional in Win10, Default in Win11) defaults to Powershell.
Powershell is starting to become more common. But simple directory listing is actually much faster in cmd as Powershell treats everything as an object while cmd just dumps the contents as text.
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 79d
How much fun would it be if each additional R showed you another level down the directory tree though?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 79d
Thank you. I've just created a few aliases for ls, lss, lsss, lssss.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 79d
https://superuser.com/questions/787424/hook-into-command-not-found-handler-in-ubuntu
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-Search-and-Execution.html
You can plug into the command not found handler in bash to make this work infinitely
Left as an exercise to the reader
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 4 pts · 79d
holy mackerel this is good thinking
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Oh gods I can't remember if there's a DOS command for that. I've finally forgotten. ^I'm^ ^free^
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 78d
There was tree, which had been ported to Linux/unix
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
i'ma go ask and see if it was the other way around hold on
WAIT that might make me remember. Ken can sleep another hour.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 79d
sl
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 79d
The alternative for windows,
ridshould be an alias to rmwoelkchen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 79d
ls works on Windows just fine. PowerShell understands this command since a long time, maybe even since the very beginning (not looking through the git commits, just to find out).
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 16 pts · 79d
heck, you're right.
also dir works on linux but it is not as pretty, (i am finding out as we speak)
This meme is pivoting to education bait?
Magnum@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 79d
Well who uses powershell? Common people open command prompt and it doesn't support ls.
marcos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 79d
Oh, man, don't.
Powershell is so less worse, it does not even compare.
suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 79d
I can tell it's been a while since you used windows đ.
Some of us are forced to btw.
Modern "command prompt" on windows is called Terminal and supports both PowerShell and CMD commands.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 79d
And will open Ps by default unless configured otherwise.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 79d
I will try it at work tomorrow.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 79d
Terminal is just the tabbed app to open any command line interface.
suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 79d
Yes
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 79d
Windows Terminal is shipped with Windows and defaults to PowerShell. Too bad Windows ships some ancient PS version by default but
winget install Microsoft.PowerShellisn't that complicated.numerator3962@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 79d
Who is the âcommon personâ listing directory contents via the command line instead of the explorer window?
suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 79d
Tech workers
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
I don't. Not that this has to be true for others but I use the command line for
ping,ipconfig, andwinget.suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 79d
I manage hundreds of windows server VMs as a matter of routine. At that scale the efficiency of the command line wins out.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
I remember living in a place with such shitty internet I had scripts for ipconfig release and renew on my desktop because I needed them five times a day.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 79d
Hi it is me. When you have 500 files in a folder sometimes
dir Jobnumber_string*.part is faster than using explorer
elvith@feddit.org · 3 pts · 79d
You could define Powershell as the default shell in Windows 10, so that you wouldn't need to explicitly invoke it every time - although, which (non-technical) user does this?
Windows 11 changed the default to Powershell so that you'll always land in Powershell and need to invoke the old CMD explicitly. Also the new Terminal (optional in Win10, Default in Win11) defaults to Powershell.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
Wait. I always just invoked cmd explicitly to get the command prompt. What the hell was I supposed to be doing to get the command prompt
blackbeans@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 79d
Powershell is starting to become more common. But simple directory listing is actually much faster in cmd as Powershell treats everything as an object while cmd just dumps the contents as text.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 79d
Dir /p
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Dir/w/p
I got monitor space might as well use it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Uhhh, look south?
I ain't mudded in a while but I can dig if you can dig