TL;DR: gci -r -fi <filename-pattern> My favorite use of find in bash is to find files whose name matches a pattern. For instance, find all the jar files under this directory: bash# find . -name ‘*.jar’ In PowerShell, there’s a program called “find” but it ain’t the same program. Short Answer Instead, use Get-ChildItem. The … Read morePowerShell equivalent of find
TL;DR – Remove-Item -Recurse -Force <path> On linuxy systems, rm -rf <path> means “remove this path and everything under it, dammit.” If the files aren’t writeable, but you own the files, it deletes them anyway. In PowerShell, rm is aliased to Remove-Item, but it doesn’t accept -rf. Windows Terminal> rm -rf fooRemove-Item : A parameter … Read morePowerShell for `rm -rf`
Today I found a typo in some docs: “account” was misspelled as “accuont.” I want to find that in the repository. As a bash user, I tried ack accuont but of course that command is not found in PowerShell. It took me a while to find the equivalent so here it is: Select-String -Path .\**\*.md … Read morePowerShell equivalent of ack
“Why use bash when you have PowerShell?” <– words I did not expect to hear from my own mouth. Over the past few weeks I’ve begun learning PowerShell, and it’s an improvement over the UNIX (and family) shells, bash and ksh etc. PowerShell is newer. It builds on what those shells did right, and then … Read moreRebase on the World: personal shell choice
Software development is a neverending string of “What happens if I…?” Each new runtime, language, or tool is a new world with its own laws of nature. We get to explore each one with experiments. Objective Today I added another alias to my PowerShell $profile: To use that alias in my current shell, I need … Read moreDevelopment aesthetic: experiments
Today I learned how to create aliases in PowerShell. I’m switching from Mac to Windows, and I want the terminal in VS Code to do what I want. No terminal will work for me until it interprets gs as git status. I type that compulsively. In bash, setting that up looks like this: alias gs=’git … Read moreThis verbosity makes me happy