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.

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

ifconfig doesn't even work in a lot of Linux distros anymore.

[–] jvisick@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 curl

[–] JustBrian7872@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic 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.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Fortunately splitting up the arguments works in Powershell sometimes: rm -r -f