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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 23:52:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Since I’m back in Windows (goodness help me*) writing a PowerShell installer for Kitten**, I thought I’d share this little piece of home (Linux). If you want to use the touch command in Windows, add this to your $PROFILE:

   function createFile {New-Item -Path $args -ItemType File}
   New-Alias -Name touch -Value createFile

   * With oh-my-posh, PSReadLine (with PredictionViewStyle set to ListView), Terminal-Icons, and z, it’s *almost* bearable.

   ** https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:21:27 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • railmeat

     @railmeat Kindly read my post again. It’s all in there :)

   • railmeat (railmeat@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:21:28 JST railmeat

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     @aral I am surprised to see you using MS Windows. What brought that on? When will you recover.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:42:00 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Kevin

     @kevin Windows, innit? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   • Kevin (kevin@elephant.crime.group)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:42:02 JST Kevin

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     @aral drives me crazy that aliases can't include command line options in powershell. so many tiny functions + an alias instead of just an alias.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 01:13:28 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Skyglobe

     @skyglobe I mean, it’s an object-based shell. But, yeah, I wonder where you start drawing the line between an object-based shell and and a NodeJS/Python/etc. shell. (And don‘t get me started about the lack of sudo… having to pop up an administrative window is ug-ly.)

   • Skyglobe (skyglobe@hostux.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 01:13:29 JST Skyglobe

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     @aral this is the Nth piece of empirical evidence pointing out that Powershell is not a shell but an API for scripting Windows. Using it as a shell is harmful.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 03:19:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Clayton Errington 🖥️

     @cjerrington Yours looks way more polished ;)

   • Clayton Errington 🖥️ (cjerrington@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 03:19:54 JST Clayton Errington 🖥️

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     @aral This is how I did this too: https://usefulscripting.network/powershell/touch-command-in-powershell/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 05:56:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • M. Forester
     • Skyglobe

     @mforester @skyglobe Sadly doesn’t help when you need to write a script anyone can run without dependencies :) But thanks for the heads up, I’ll look into it for myself .:)

   • M. Forester (mforester@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 05:56:10 JST M. Forester

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     • Skyglobe

     @aral @skyglobe there is actually a tool called 'gsudo' that does that for you. It'll prompt you for elevated permissions and then run the command as administrator. 🙂
     I use that a lot with chocolatey (a Win package manager).