The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by elsadek » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC

The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
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Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by jpease » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

CTRL-ALT-DEL?

Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by jmclnx » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 1:22 AM UTC

Not bad, but one big criticism, never do a 'kill -9' first, that will stop the program from cleaning up after itself if killed using -9.

Use one of these instead:

    -TERM   then wait, if not
    -INT    then wait, if not
    -HUP    then wait, if not
    -ABRT

If you are sure all of these fail, then use -9 (-KILL). But assume the program has a major bug and try and find another program that will do the same task and use that instead.

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Post by WaterRun » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

I recently had a similar idea. https://github.com/Water-Run/Cmdset

Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by Akuehne » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 1:36 AM UTC

My most used windows command is, and will always be, `ls`.

Then I'm reminded that it's not a know file or directory.

Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by 8note » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 2:04 AM UTC

ok, but how do i get the only linux command i know?

ctrl+r

Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by malbs » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 2:17 AM UTC

findstr is an underappreciated command line tool. I use it a lot

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Post by IcyWindows » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 2:38 AM UTC

Akuehne wrote: post #5

My most used windows command is, and will always be, `ls`. Then I'm reminded that it's not a know file or directory.

It's been nearly 20 years since powershell came out.

Re: The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

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Post by hackyhacky » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC

> Author's note: From here on, the content is AI-generated

Kudos to the author for their honesty in admitting AI use, but this killed my interest in reading this. If you can use AI to generate this list, so can anyone. Why would I want to read AI slop?

HN already discourages AI-generated comments. I hope we can extend that to include a prohibition on all AI-generated content.

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

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Post by rmunn » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 3:09 AM UTC

hackyhacky wrote: post #9

> Author's note: From here on, the content is AI-generated Kudos to the author for their honesty in admitting AI use, but this killed my interest in reading this. If you can use AI to generate this list, so can anyone. Why would I want to read AI slop? HN already discourages AI-generated comments. I hope we can extend that to include a prohibition on all AI-generated content. > Don't post generated comments or AI-edi…

If the author had also included a note explaining that he'd *reviewed* what the AI produced and checked it for correctness, I would be willing to trust the list. As it is, how do I know the `netstat` invocation is correct, and not an AI hallucination? I'll have to check it myself, obviating most of the usefulness of the list. The only reason such a list is useful is if you can trust it without checking.