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The defaults come out of old CMD.EXE (bad) habits, so so yes are missing like a dozen years of Linux terminal UX experimentation/improvements.

One particularly common advice with Powershell is to try PSReadLine for more bash-like versions of tab completion and other line editing things: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine

As for common shortcuts, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Get-Alias (and Set-Alias) is a very useful tool.




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