The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

jpease

CTRL-ALT-DEL?

jmclnx

Not bad, but one big criticism, never do a 'kill -9' first, that will stop the program from cleaning up after itself if killed using -9. Use one of these instead: -TERM then wait, if not -INT then wait, if not -HUP then wait, if not -ABRT If you are sure all of these fail, then use -9 (-KILL). But assume the program has a major bug and try and find another program that will do the same task and use that instead.

WaterRun

I recently had a similar idea. https://github.com/Water-Run/Cmdset

Akuehne

My most used windows command is, and will always be, `ls`. Then I'm reminded that it's not a know file or directory.

8note

ok, but how do i get the only linux command i know? ctrl+r

malbs

findstr is an underappreciated command line tool. I use it a lot

hackyhacky

> Author's note: From here on, the content is AI-generated Kudos to the author for their honesty in admitting AI use, but this killed my interest in reading this. If you can use AI to generate this list, so can anyone. Why would I want to read AI slop? HN already discourages AI-generated comments. I hope we can extend that to include a prohibition on all AI-generated content. > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

themafia

> Windows: netstat -n -a | findstr "https" (//note the double quotes) netstat works perfectly fine on linux as well. If you're looking for https connections it's certainly far more efficient than 'lsof'. also if you use '-n' then you're not going to get service names translated, so that probably should be: netstat -n -a | find "443"

HDBaseT

traceroute vs tracert always catches me out.

not_a_bot_4sho

A great non-AI resource on this topic: https://ss64.com/

flexagoon

> Finding a specific file by name across the system > Linux: find / -name "config.txt" This is not how you find a file across the entire system, you use plocate for that. find would take ages to do what plocate does instantly