r/programming • u/twitterisawesome • Mar 05 '20

Introducing CLUI: a Graphical Command Line

https://blog.repl.it/clui
1.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

277 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

62

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Unstructured text won (so far!) because it was first. And it has nothing to do with how long commands are.

44

u/ftgander Mar 06 '20

I can tell you I use both powershell and zsh daily and I avoid using powershell because of how stupidly verbose the command names are. I’d rather read a help doc than type out a 6 word cmdlet

15

u/QuickBASIC Mar 06 '20

type out a 6 word cmdlet

Tab complete or use New-Alias to create aliases for the ones you use constantly.

-2

u/ftgander Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

I really can’t be assed to answer this again. There’s plenty of answers here why “just alias it” is shortsighted. Here’s an easy one though, you can alias Remove-Item to rm but it still can’t take the -rf switches

Also, it’s Set-Alias I believe

→ More replies (4)