Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?SeKAmW0=?= A Linux Expert, And Here Are 6 Commands I =?UTF-8?B?Q2Fu4oCZdA==?= Live Without Date: 15 Aug 2025 08:37:40 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <107gp14$3ko4l$1@dont-email.me> <107lj2m$o0kp$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XezGdIJAek0O+ayLFm7z3QVeneYPIebSm608zTzlifE+rUJm3P Cancel-Lock: sha1:WtfUPF+lYtNvjQmcKSTCE0Va7eE= sha256:SE1qhSA3S2PkLrx4n3ljSJ+oEHY2g8TyMsVCUnqqcRo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71184 On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:05:26 -0000 (UTC), Jason H wrote: > On 13/08/2025 03:40, rbowman wrote: >>On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:16:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> >commands-i-cant-live-without/> >>> >>> What’s an obvious omission from his list? To me, it’s the “find” >>> command. I have millions of files on my main machine (quite literally, >>> I would say), and it is the most convenient and powerful way of >>> finding something I might have worked on years ago, and mostly >>> forgotten about since then. >> >>It's very annoying when I have a senior moment and try to use find on a >>Windows box. While I have ls, grep, cat, and so forth 'find' finds the >>lame Windows command. I suppose I should fix that. > > Some of the PowerShell equivalents of basic Unix commands are > hilariously > long winded. My use of PowerShell has mostly been a cut'n'paste of long, arcane commands that I had no idea how they worked.