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Microsoft should have renamed it to WINDLHLP.COM or something Windowsy like that, and none of these people would have dared touch it.

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I noticed that "curl" in PowerShell is an alias, so you would have to deliberately say "curl.exe" to get System32\curl.exe

  C:\> alias curl

  CommandType     Name                                               Version    
  Source
  -----------     ----                                               -------    ------
  Alias           curl -> Invoke-WebRequest

That's not the case in the latest versions of powershell.

Yeah they did the same thing with wget. Just absolutely bonkers

That is for Windows Powershell, not Powershell (and yes Windows Powershell is different from PowerShell [1])

curl > curl.exe > C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats...

This is so Microsoft

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