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by saw-lau 1151 days ago
TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!
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Another one a lot of people don't realize ships with Windows 10 & 11 is tar. Specifically bsdtar which along with tar files can also create and extract zip files.
It’s not enabled by default, but under Optional Features you can also install an OpenSSH client, making tools like putty no longer necessary
The OpenSSH client has been part of the default install of the Pro version since the April 2018 Windows 10 update.
curl on windows is my fallback to telnet (which is even less likely to be available on a clients windows computer) to quickly check connectivity and address resolution without having to install anything