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0 pointspsionski13y ago0 comments

You might want to re-think the part about the fantastic command-line experience. You can't auto-complete command arguments, even if you get it working for some commands, it won't work with all of them (i.e. 3rd party tools). Of course, you can try to remember the single-letter shortcuts, but they are often illogical because the letter is already taken by some other option.

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barrkel13y ago· 1 in thread

I have Linux, OS X, Windows and Solaris systems at home. The one with by far the best command-line experience is Debian-flavoured Linux. Living without GNU coreutils is all but intolerable on other flavours, while the reliability of apt-get for making almost everything else trivially available is hard to beat.

psionskiOP13y ago

I'm on Debian (unstable) too, I like it very much! I was commenting on the command line (bash, etc.), after learning PowerShell it just seems so... primitive. It's text-oriented, so you have to parse everything and there is no automatic tab-completion except for the commands themselves (i.e. I can't type nm<tab> --ti<tab> agg<tab> for `nmap --timing aggressive`). This is normal, as bash is MUCH MUCH older than PS, so I'm not expecting it to be on par with it, but I can't help comparing them...

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