Yev Bronshteyn

PowerShell does include the “dir” cmdlet (alias for Get-ChildItem) which serves the purpose of “ls”. The original Windows version of PowerShell actually aliased it as “ls” as well. I’m assuming that alias was removed so as to not conflict with the native “ls” command on Posix platforms.

You can read about how Get-ChildItem (aka “dir”) works with files here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell…

And with PowerShell you don’t need as many parameters to specify what information to return, because what you get are .Net objects whose properties you can query with Where-Object (aka “where”, aka “?”) cmdlet.

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I haven't encountered the inconsistency you're describing. Can you give some examples?