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PowerShell has aliases of Linux command names, this is not new.
Examples:
ls -> Get-ChildItem
cat -> Get-Content
pwd -> Get-Location
cp -> Copy-Item
More examples:
https://mathieubuisson.github.io/po... -
@gitreflog He may have, but this is possible without git installed. PowerShell now supports UNIX Shell commands aliases,
"The core PowerShell language is based on the POSIX 1003.2 grammar for the Korn shell."
- Bruce Payette
It's even open-souce
https://github.com/PowerShell/...
My manager doesn't get it.
I just wanted some water :(
Yep that's how I want to wake up, with a mini heart attack ...
TIL I can run Linux commands in Powershell. I don't know what I did. I didn't realize that I was in Powershell instead of WSL. But only to a few commands though. Can't run uname, free, top or other system like commands so far. Must be part of some Windows 10 update that I missed.
rant
windows 10
wsl
powershell