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Feature Request: Add suggestions for common cmd.exe commands #9006

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Feature Request: Add suggestions for common cmd.exe commands#9006
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Issue-Enhancementthe issue is more of a feature request than a bugResolution-DeclinedThe proposed feature is declined.WG-Enginecore PowerShell engine, interpreter, and runtimeWG-Interactive-IntelliSensetab completion
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@SteveL-MSFT
Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)
opened on Feb 28, 2019

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Users trying to move from cmd to PowerShell struggle with muscle memory on commands like dir /s which don't work since dir is an alias to get-childitem and parameters start with a hyphen and /s for subdirectories would need to be -r for recursion.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Have a built in list of common cmd built-in commands and when the user tries it, a CommandNotFoundException is thrown the suggestion framework can suggest the PowerShell equivalent.

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  1. Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)
    added
    Issue-Enhancementthe issue is more of a feature request than a bug
    on Feb 28, 2019
  2. Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)
    added this to the 6.3-Consider milestone on Feb 28, 2019

  3. iSazonov commented on Feb 28, 2019

    @iSazonov
    Ilya (iSazonov)
    on Feb 28, 2019
    Collaborator

    Can MSFT use telemetry to collect such errors? This would greatly facilitate the work (and make it "portable" - Unix users haven't such problems?).

  4. Ilya (iSazonov)
    added
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    on Feb 28, 2019

  5. SteveL-MSFT commented on Feb 28, 2019

    @SteveL-MSFT
    Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)
    on Feb 28, 2019
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    Ilya (@iSazonov) feel free to add that to PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC#158

    We've discussed getting telemetry on errors as it would tell us what issues customers are having but there are privacy concerns of the contents of the ErrorRecord

  6. iSazonov commented on Mar 1, 2019

    @iSazonov
    Ilya (iSazonov)
    on Mar 1, 2019
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    Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) Done.

  7. iSazonov commented on Mar 1, 2019

    @iSazonov
    Ilya (iSazonov)
    on Mar 1, 2019
    Collaborator

    Perhaps it is good area for (local) ML/AI.

  8. Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT)
    modified the milestones: 7.0-Consider, vNext-Consider on Oct 15, 2019
  9. Joey Aiello (joeyaiello)
    modified the milestones: 7.1-Consider, Future on Jul 30, 2020

  10. rkeithhill commented on Aug 7, 2020

    @rkeithhill
    Keith Hill (rkeithhill)
    on Aug 7, 2020
    Collaborator

    Could we also get suggestions for common native exes on Windows? I should get suggestions when I mis-type git, bash, npm, python, gcc, node, etc. Today the experience isn't very helpful on Windows:

    08-07 14:50:32 7> npn run build
npn: The term 'npn' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: nsn, cp, cpi, gp, gpv, gps, mp, nal, ndr, ni.
[user/hill/ULC-3286-impl-install-license-service-stub +0 ~7 -0 !] KLM:src\KeysightLicenseManager
!08-07 14:50:38 8> gir fetch 
gir: The term 'gir' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: dir, gdr, gi, gin, gip, gal, gbp, gc.

    NOTE: suggestions work better on Linux for some reason:

    08-07 15:02:33 4> npn run build
npn: The term 'npn' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: nsn, npm, npx, cpi, gp, gpv, gps.
/home/hillr
08-07 15:03:47 5> gir fetch
gir: The term 'gir' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: dir, gdr, gi, git, gal, gbp, gc, gci, gcm.
/home/hillr

    🤷‍♂️

  11. Ilya (iSazonov)
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    on Nov 30, 2021

  12. iSazonov commented on Nov 30, 2021

    @iSazonov
    Ilya (iSazonov)
    on Nov 30, 2021
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    It would be great to have more meta data about Windows utilities in a format that we could use in IntelliSense, argument binding and so on.

  13. theJasonHelmick commented on May 26, 2022

    @theJasonHelmick
    Jason Helmick (theJasonHelmick)
    on May 26, 2022
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    After discussing wit the working group, we feel this is a very specific scenario that can cause additional confusion with users scripting commands. This also would not necessarily prevent similar usage errors from occurring unless all the parameters for a command are resolved to - parameters. One area we think this might be considered is with the suggestion framework, however it doesn't resolve the problem of incorrect usage in scripts. Error will still be produced. The current error produced form Dir /s is very explanatory.

  14. Jason Helmick (theJasonHelmick)
    added
    Resolution-DeclinedThe proposed feature is declined.
    on May 26, 2022
  16. ghost closed this as completedon May 27, 2022
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