Powershell can auto complete directory and filenames, flip forward and back slashes, it even autocompletes app and method names. Powershell is cmd.exe‘s genius cousin who went to wizarding school. It’s more or less the same –a black box– but has improved beneath the hood quite a bit. It brings up memories of installing DOOM on Windows 3.1 from floppy disks. Each one is probably worth its own deep dive.Ĭmd.exe is what you think of when you imagine an MS-DOS prompt. cmd.exe and PowershellĬmd.exe and Powershell are the shells that ship standard with Windows and have lots of sophisticated features. After I wrote my first #davegoeswindows post, I lost nearly a week of work trying half-a-dozen shells looking for an rsync replacement. On my Mac, I used rsync over ssh to deploy my blog. It was unexpected but turned out to be a very welcome adventure. Throughout my journey, I’ve used quite a few different text editors and shells. Next up in my #davegoeswindows series, I’m talking about Editors and Shells. A new step-by-step guide to setting up a Windows 10 web developer environment is now available.
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