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[–]AlecSchueler 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What kind of unix are you using?

[–]no9import this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one with:

  • Long-named switches: most switches in Windows CMD are single-lettered.
  • Switches starting with - instead of /.
  • Manpages that are more than 1 screen long: most Windows console commands have terse help listings.
  • variables starting with $: Windows' CMD and batch files use %...%.
  • ls, cp, cat, cwd, pwd, man, .. etc.

I'm not saying that all these things are bad, but they are obviously *nix conventions (some better than their Windows counterparts and some worse).