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Comment by darnir | Hacker News Reader

BTW, the Wget that comes built-in with Powershell is not GNU Wget. But a weird abomination from Microsoft. They just call it Wget despite it having nothing to do with the original

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It's an alias for Invoke-WebRequest command, to be more precise.

  Get-Alias wget
  CommandType     Name                      
  -----------     ----                      
  Alias           wget -> Invoke-WebRequest

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

This is how to remove it, in case you want to use a real version of 'wget' found on your $env:PATH:

    Remove-Item Alias:\wget -force

I also suggest doing the same for curl so that the real version of curl can run when just typing in 'curl':

    Remove-Item Alias:\curl -force

I have added these lines to my $PROFILE so that every time I invoke a PowerShell, I get more sane settings.

Luckily, these aliases are removed in PowerShell Core. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/5268

Only for Windows Powershell. The alias is no longer there in Powershell 7.

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