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How to "grep" in PowerShell

Ant The Developer on April 19, 2018

PowerShell is awesome if you haven't used it but it's absolutely foreign if you're used to Unix-like Bash-like shells. For instance, there's no gre...
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Malik Benkirane

Hey !
But what about ag ?
I consider this is as a serious alternative
to unify these systems made by property guys.

Regards,
Malik

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Malik Benkirane

I cannot argue there will always be many options. But then this is a mess. For example I like dwm, st, vim, unite.vim, goyo.vim, limelight.vim, gruvbox, xrdb all these good old tools together makes very appreciable desktop environments too...

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Christopher McClellan

Tmux has basically become my desktop. I’m also using the Lynx text based browser, so I have no idea why I bother running an X server actually...

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Malik Benkirane

Have you tried edbrowse yet ? 😌

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Ant The Developer

oh yeah, I LOVE Vim. And it works really well cross-platform, too. I did an article a while ago on VIM setup on Windows, I'd love to write a new one if people are interested in that.

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Ant The Developer

I wanted to mention what's built-in. There are obviously TONS of options, even cross-platform options that are good, too.

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Shalvah

Great article! I suggest you mention that cat in PowerShell is an alias for a more "sensible" command name (Get-Object, I think)