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There are lots of aliases for cmdlets for exactly this reason - interactive use. The verbose commands are useful when reading a script that isn't working at 3am in the morning when your boss is breathing down your neck to fix it "stat!".

RE - your aside '\' vs '/' - I think most of us still shake our head at that decision.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

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I don't know if that was really a "decision" or an unfortunate compromise. DOS inherited /foo style command line parameters from CP/M, and DOS 1 didn't have a hierarchical file system, so there was no conflict with the path delimiter character UNIX was using. When DOS 2 introduced directories (and brought over the cd, md, rd, etc. commands from UNIX) suddenly we had to choose between massively breaking backwards compatibility or using something else, like \, as a delimiter.

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