Coreutils for Windows
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Re: Coreutils for Windows
#2Native Coreutils for Windows is genuinely some good news coming from Microsoft.
Re: Coreutils for Windows
#3Native Coreutils for Windows is genuinely some good news coming from Microsoft.
The command line team has been doing some solid work for a while. I recognize lhecker from the also great wt & edit projects.
If you told me during the Windows 7 era the Windows CLI would not only be getting nice but getting pretty comfortable I would never have believed it.
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#4In the intentionally dropped section, it lists shed as "Not particularly useful on Windows." Does anyone know why? Is thre already a shred-like command in Windows?
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#5FINALLY. This is actually exciting to me... Mind you the linux ports (cygwin, msys2, git bash) are all great to have and I make sure one version or the other is always on my path but having MS maintain them (assuming they continue to do so) is great news
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#6So dir is not shipped due to conflict with built-ins, echo and rmdir are shipped despite conflicts, and sort is deemed not to have a conflict? What is the logic?
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#7Nice. I appreciate the effort to make things less painful for powerusers. I had noticed some of these working already in PS.
If anyone from MS is reading this can we please also get an equivalents (or even alias) for the thing that shows IP address? The windows equivalent of "ip a" is some convoluted PS command that I can never remember
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#8Exactly. The best Linux distro is Windows.
Re: Coreutils for Windows
#9In the intentionally dropped section, it lists shed as "Not particularly useful on Windows." Does anyone know why? Is thre already a shred-like command in Windows?
I assume it requires something exposed by the underlying filesystem.
Re: Coreutils for Windows
#10uutils coreutils was/is already available and more complete than this