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[-] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 19 hours ago
[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Uh... kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality. rmdir and rm are both aliases of Remove-Item, ls is Get-ChildItem, cd is Set-Location, cat is Get-Content, and so on.

Of particular note is curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, the curl alias shadows it. curl is an alias of the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the -UseBasicParsing switch is specified. But since IE is dead, if -UseBasicParsing is not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.

[-] UnspecificGravity@infosec.pub 5 points 13 hours ago

Jesus, They really just need to start over.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah as an admin I love that I can run familiar Linuxy commands in powershell but I also hate that they can't just use/fork the real userland utilities so everything works just similarly enough to completely throw you off when you stumble across a difference

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