i love positional arguments in commands.

Amber

i love positional arguments in commands.

remember kids:

dism /Online /RestoreHealth /Cleanup-Image gives you error 87 "The restorehealth option is unknown" but dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth runs

Amber

the linux version would have this as a subcommand like

dism restore --online --cleanup

but no windows likes having subcommands as positional arguments because fuck you right

Anthropy :verified_dragon:

@puppygirlhornypost2 the fact critical core Windows tools can't even get command line argument parsing right should tell you everything you need to know about Windows tbh

Amber

@[email protected] me every time i encounter a new windows command trying the several possible help menus depending on if it's a powershell module.

$command -h
$command /h
$command /?

auspice

@puppygirlhornypost2 the windows shell feels like it was made to be deliberately unusable

Amber

@mozilla_firefox it's specifically programs written for command prompt that do this right powershell modules are actually sane

Amber

@mozilla_firefox bc in power shell i can make an array of arguments and pass it to the module instead of doing - for everything. i use this all the time

Jake Hamby

@puppygirlhornypost2 That's a confusing syntax! I was trying to figure out what dism might look like as an OpenVMS command, and I think VMS would probably force you to put "/Cleanup_Image" first (and let you abbreviate to the shortest unique prefixes):

dism/Cleanup/Onl/Rest

VMS's command parser can be configured via tables to run different programs depending on qualifier. So "analyze/disk_structure", "analyze/audit", "analyze/crash_dump", "analyze/rms_file" likely launch 4 different .exe's.