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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 23 2016, @10:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the parts-of-the-basic-toolset dept.

Well, that didn't take long: within a week of applause for Microsoft's decision to open-source PowerShell, a comment-war has broken out over curl and wget.

For those not familiar with these commands: they're open source command line tools for fetching Internet content without a browser. Apart from obvious applications like downloading whole sites (for example as backup), they're also under the hood for a lot of other toolsets (an example the author is familiar with – GIS tools use curl and/or wget to fetch maps from Web services).

For some reason, Microsoft's team decided to put aliases for curl and wget in Windows PowerShell – but, as this thread begins, those aliases don't deliver curl and wget functionality.

The pull request says the aliases should be spiked: "They block use of the commonly used command line tools without providing even an attempt to offer the same functionality. They serve no purpose for PowerShell users but cause confusion and problems to existing curl and wget users."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/your_wget_is_broken_and_should_die_powershellers_tell_microsoft/

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday August 23 2016, @10:46PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday August 23 2016, @10:46PM (#392355)

    Don't apologize! :)

    I wish that my grammer were better all the time ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Saturday August 27 2016, @09:05PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday August 27 2016, @09:05PM (#394038)

    i thank a couple online denizens who corrected my misuse of 'soupcon' and misspelling of 'smorgasbord'...
    a lot of obvious stuff just goes by in the stream (not worth the effort to 'correct' their/there/they're, etc mixups), but some of them catch the eye...
    later, ed ed ed...