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    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Mint comes with dir aliased for ls, and the only other one I regularly use is cls for clear.

    Yes I grew up on DOS, how can you tell?

    [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Powershell does the opposite, having an alias from ls to whatever the powershell equivalent of dir is.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    It gets better. PowerShell 5, which is still the default installation on Windows 11, aliases curl and wget to Invoke-WebRequest. The fucked-up part is that Win11 includes the real curl too, but the alias shadows it, and you have to use curl.exe. The even more fucked-up part is that Invoke-WebRequest still uses Internet Explorer to parse the result, and will panic if -UseBasicParsing is not passed every time, or IE isn't installed and initialized.

    I used to develop applications in PowerShell. I still wear the mental scars.

    [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

    The even more fucked-up part is that Invoke-WebRequest still uses Internet Explorer to parse the result, and will panic if -UseBasicParsing is not passed every time, or IE isn't installed and initialized.

    That is absolutely horrifying.

    [–] Dima@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

    And curl, and several others

    [–] Finadil@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I got used to all the other Linux commands, but I had to make an alias for md=mkdir. Why that already isn't a thing is beyond me.

    I have a simple way of getting around that - I only make directories in the GUI.

    [–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    People type clear instead of CTRL+L?

    I've never had a terminal that that didn't work in. Or at the very least have a shortcut be able to be set for.

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    CTRL+L and clear command do two different things (at least when using Bash on Debian):

    • CTRL+L scrolls the terminal output one screen so you don't see your previous output, unless you scroll up;
    • clear does indeed clear terminal output completely, and your previous command history is available only through the history command.

    If you want CTRL+L to clear your screen completely you can add following to the .bashrc (or other file that is sourced when starting Bash, e.g. .bash_bindings):

    bind -x '"\C-l":clear'

    Note that it might not work if you use Vi mode inside Bash, but who does that.

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I often use clear when I need to rerun the same command and want to see the output in isolation each time, so I might run clear && ./build.sh and then just press the up arrow and run it again.

    But I think, many people are also just not aware of the keyboard shortcut or don't care to remember it, since they don't use it often and clear is easy enough to guess.

    [–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I guess I'm the other kind of brain. I tap Ctrl+l on cooldown. But the up arrow thing makes sense. But still doesn't explain the alias if you're not actually typing it often.