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Comment by Aleman360 | Hacker News Reader

> With Bash you get a wealth of tools because everything can handle text.

And no autocomplete.

Unix command line autocomplete is fairly good, but it's not useful for discovery of new features or for helping you figure out a CLI without reading anything. It is quite effective at helping a user who knows what they're avoid keystrokes, though.

Bash completion is inferior. It doesn't understand types.

I didn't get this, could you elaborate? Does powershell autocomplete objects it is about to ingest, and before you run the command?

PowerShell v3+ can autocomplete command names, command switches and switch values (if they're a strict set). It can also autocomplete object properties yes.

    $dir = gci
    $dir.<tab> -> $dir.Count

> command names, command switches and switch values (if they're a strict set).

So can bash. How is this different from bash's autocompletion?

> also ... object properties

Well, there aren't objects in bash, so I can't translate this.

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