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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Clever but really verbose incantations that no-one can remember.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Even more biased towards the English-speaking set of command-line Wizards than the standard fare!

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just use the List-And-Display-Available-Relevant-Commands-Formatted-As-Table commandlet. Couldn't be easier.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean...

get-command *mycommand* | format-table

Isnt that hard to remember is it?

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

It ruins my joke about the overly verbose commands though