Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?Q?I=E2=80=99m?= A Linux Expert, And Here Are 6 Commands I =?UTF-8?Q?Can=E2=80=99t?= Live Without Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:13:34 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <20250815081334.0000084c@gmail.com> References: <107gp14$3ko4l$1@dont-email.me> <107lj2m$o0kp$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8aff6a8cacdde736d37ddc282a310c64"; logging-data="1183048"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KwSWGwNkD15zNbp4MIYEbXqxUiHVnJF0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:dnrfIx8Kw/hi8C0VSkZBl/SBW4o= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71234 On 15 Aug 2025 08:37:40 GMT rbowman wrote: > My use of PowerShell has mostly been a cut'n'paste of long, arcane > commands that I had no idea how they worked. The funny part is that the commands and options are incredibly verbose to the point where it's fairly straightforward to figure them out... ...except that actually discovering what the commands *are* (and which esoteric namespace you have to import to use them) is a quest worthy of Mallory or Tolkien and involves slogging through a morass of Spiceworks threads and defunct MSDN links with the aid of a search engine and/or the Internet Archive :/