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by wtallis 20 days ago
> Yes, get-childitem is a little weird to remember,

That's not the problem. The problem is that it's way too much typing, and with the default tab completion behavior it's often way too much backspacing if I didn't get what I want. A good command-line shell designed for interactive use should be terse enough that it's clearly faster than using a GUI. And the OS should ship with such a shell out of the box; building your own on top of a weird scripting language is silly and not at all the same thing as the OS having a reasonable shell built-in. (Most of the value in PowerShell comes from having it installed by default on all Windows systems, and it's sad that Microsoft decided to just freeze it at 5.1.)