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I absolutely abuse Bash for more usecases than I should on my mac, but you owe it to yourself to try out Powershell Core on PC. It is very, very productive. If it weren't for a couple nuances, I would consider switching to it on my Mac as well.

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PowerShell takes some time to grok, but once you get it it has very deep integration with Windows systems, and can become a joy to work with.

That being said, I still feel violated every time `ls` returns `bad command or filename`

Are there different versions of PowerShell? 'ls' has always worked for me. 'ls -al' does not however, and that does feel a bit violating.

`ls` is an alias on windows systems. I dont remember what the command maps to, but it maps to something. Same thing with a lot of others (e.g. cat is an alias for Get-Content)

You could always make aliases. For example, ls would be 'wsl ls' to run the ls command from Linux instead of searching down the Windows exec path for it.

Also, I noticed at least my version of powershell actually has a built in 'ls'. It isn't quite the same as 'wsl ls' but it does show results more appropriate for Windows file systems.

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