• mateomaui@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    What year is this from? You absolutely can use ls in a windows command prompt now.

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      1 year ago

      As of Aug 26, 2023, Windows command prompt absolutely does not recognize “ls” as a command.

      Powershell is a different story.

      Source: I type “ls” 40 times a day into a command prompt on my up-to-date win10 PC at work.

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        1 year ago

        I literally just typed it into cmd.exe on Windows 10, fully updated, and it absolutely did work. No idea why it doesn’t work for you.

        edit: ???

        edit: it’s been traced back to this:

        https://github.com/devkitPro/installer/releases

        which is an emulator toolset that I didn’t know existed on my system until today.

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          1 year ago

          That is interesting. I just remoted into 5 different machines at the office and none of them worked with ‘ls’. If you enter ‘ls /?’, does it give you a synopsis and argument list?

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            1 year ago

            If I do “ls /?” it returns no such file or directory, but just “ls” performs exactly as you’d expect. I haven’t installed anything to provide that function that I know of. It never occurred to me that I would have to because as far as I know it’s always worked. Until today I just assumed it had become a standard command and never investigated. Was just happy I could use the same command in cmd and on my Pi box.

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        1 year ago

        Out of curiosity what do you do to frequently end up with cmd? I don’t think I’ve touched it in many years at this point.

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          1 year ago

          Lately I’ve been using it as a simple way to drag and drop a source .tar.xz archive on a .bat file so it can be twice extracted, moved, renamed, have dependencies downloaded by git, run a cmake process, do a visual studio compile, then move the result release directory back to where the .bat file is while removing unneeded files and adding new ones.

          cmd and batch still has its uses.

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          It’s my own fault, and the result of 30+ years of muscle memory building up. Plus, while I agree cmd isn’t nearly as powerful as powershell or wsl can be, when I’m in Windows it’s still the fastest way for me to do 90% of the simple things I need to do. I have a long history with it, and a thorough understanding of it, so I don’t really need to think for most of the things I’m doing there.

          If I need to script something, or do anything that seems like it would be annoying to do in CMD, I hop into WSL pretty quickly and get to work with bash or python. The problem I have now is that I’ve developed a little muscle memory there as well… hence my issue with entering ‘ls’ everywhere.

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        1 year ago

        The year is 2023, if you’re still using CMD or batch files still that’s on you. It’s like riding a horse down a freeway and yelling at cars.

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            1 year ago

            That wasn’t the conversation.

            ‘Cmd’ is to ‘horse and buggy’ as ‘powershell’ is to ‘automotive vehicle’

            Have no idea where you decided to pull this 100mph idea from. It wasn’t a comment about speed, it was a comment about utilizing modern practices and tools. And that the joke falls apart because it’s forcing the narrative all windows has is cmd and blatantly ignoring pwsh. It be me like making a joke how linux can’t do wifi… because there was a time Windows did wifi just fine but linux required using a special process using an ndiswrapper with windows drivers to get linux on wifi… so like 16-17 years ago. See, hilarious.

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          1 year ago

          That is a fair statement, but also a different topic.

          I am thankful to live in an age with WSL.

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            1 year ago

            What? Ignoring the out of date, over used, ‘gottem’, phrase… it literally doesn’t make sense given the context. I’m advocating for modern tools… how is that a ‘boomer’ move?

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              1 year ago

              I ended it with a question mark because I was uncertain but otherwise your asinine, dismissive statement sounds like something a jackass who’s been around too long would say because he’s entirely too full of himself. I’m willing to recognize that it’s actually ignorance formed out of youth. Don’t think about it too hard.

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      1 year ago

      Yes in Windows Server since, IIRC, 2012". No in Windows client versions.

      I’m so used to Server commands I sometimes am surprised when commands like logoff don’t work.