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0 pointsscott_karana12y ago0 comments

Agreed. Aliases are good if used as a learning aid, but eventually you need to wean yourself off them if you're serious about sysadmin/devops.

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klibertp12y ago· 2 in thread

That's why I advocate auto-completion - it's serves both as a speedup in a day-to-day work and as a help in learning.

I sometimes have nightmares about spending all day in cmd.exe...

fein12y ago

As do I, so I spend it in cygwin instead.

Try Clink and ConEmu. They make CMD.exe bearable.

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