Uh… kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality. rmdir and rm are both aliases of Remove-Item, ls is Get-ChildItem, cd is Set-Location, cat is Get-Content, and so on.
Of particular note is curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, the curl alias shadows it. curl is an alias of the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the -UseBasicParsing switch is specified. But since IE is dead, if -UseBasicParsing is not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.
Uh… kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality.
rmdirandrmare both aliases ofRemove-Item,lsisGet-ChildItem,cdisSet-Location,catisGet-Content, and so on.Of particular note is
curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, thecurlalias shadows it.curlis an alias of theInvoke-WebRequestcmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the-UseBasicParsingswitch is specified. But since IE is dead, if-UseBasicParsingis not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.Jesus, They really just need to start over.
That’s hilarious