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Support most popular Linux/Unix terminal commands #14978

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opened 2026-01-31 04:24:54 +00:00 by claunia · 1 comment
claunia commented 2026-01-31 04:24:54 +00:00
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Originally created by @omonimus1 on GitHub (Aug 26, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

  • Allow user to use ls in the same way they use dir to list files of the current working directory.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

  • ls does not get shipped with windows, but what if we could use it as alias, directly saving ls as the alias of dir, or even better, set by default a set of commands as alias of Unix/Linux based system terminal commands.

Mapping few of the most used commands like:

  • ls: dir
  • nano : touchpad
  • del: rm

Another option, on the first lunch of the terminal, provides a link to the documentation for Linux subsystem set-up. This will speed up the set-up and transaction process from other OSs to Windows.

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claunia commented 2026-01-31 04:24:56 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2021):

Thanks for the suggestion! As it turns out, PowerShell already supports ls and rm as aliases for it's commands Get-ChildItem and Remove-Item. If you'd like a modern commandline experience on Windows, you should be using powershell (or more preferably, Powershell 7, pwsh).

nano would be a great package to get added to winget (vim and emacs are already present on winget.) I don't think people particularly loved aliasing curl to Invoke-WebRequest though, especially now that curl.exe ships in the box.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2021): Thanks for the suggestion! As it turns out, PowerShell already supports `ls` and `rm` as aliases for it's commands `Get-ChildItem` and `Remove-Item`. If you'd like a modern commandline experience on Windows, you should be using powershell (or more preferably, Powershell 7, `pwsh`). `nano` would be a great package to get added to `winget` (`vim` and `emacs` are already present on `winget`.) I don't think people particularly loved aliasing `curl` to `Invoke-WebRequest` though, especially now that `curl.exe` ships in the box.
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