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The vast official Windows terminal application landscape unfortunately complicates basic tasks.

Want to educate folks on the basic command used to create a file on the command line? The instructions are different for Command Prompt, Terminal/Windows PowerShell, and PowerShell Core.

POSIX and PowerShell Core:
echo "# Header" > index.md

Command Prompt (no quotes):
echo # Header > index.md

Windows PowerShell (`>` defaults to UTF16):
echo "# Header" | out-file -encoding utf8 "index.md"

10 replies

Zach Leatherman 9 min later

Windows should make PowerShell Core the default, please 🥺
cthos 🐱 22 min later

@zachleat Just force everyone to install WSL and Ubuntu. 😈
(Kidding)
1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later
  
  @cthos 😭😭😭😭
Zach Leatherman 6 hr later

This deep-dive ended up improving the @eleventy docs on our Quick Start guides:
1️⃣ https://www.11ty.dev/#quick-start
2️⃣ https://www.11ty.dev/docs/#step-4-create-some-templates
And we now have a cross-platform command to create files to make this easier for folks:
3️⃣ https://github.com/11ty/create
Thanks @sarajw for the push!
1. Sara Joy 13 hr later
  
  @zachleat @eleventy thank you so much for the effort! Gods, what a confusion - no wonder some people end up worried about the command line!
2. Tyler Sticka 22 hr later
  
  @zachleat @eleventy @sarajw What a neat addition!
3. Zach Leatherman 17 days later
  
  @eleventy @sarajw Wrote this one up as a blog post: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/112712202710821479
  1. Sara Joy 17 days later
    
    @zachleat @eleventy oh sweet! Off to read...
Zearin 1 day later

@zachleat Yeah! I was intrigued by the vastly different approach taken by PowerShell, but this significantly contributed to my giving up on it.
(That, and the verb-noun scheme for command names, though interesting, can sometimes bite you. “Is it Get-*, List-*, or Show-*?” And other variations thereupon.)
1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later
  
  @Zearin fwiw PowerShell Core seems to be a good path forward (and the code name for the newest major versions of PowerShell)—so this problem will right itself eventually.