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I'm sure there are uglier incantations, but I recently discovered this is the correct way to run a traceroute in powershell

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName dns.google -TraceRoute

And you are wrong, who says that is the correct way. The correct way is the one that works

    tnc dns.google -t

I didn't even have to look for the alias, there is standard naming for them.

Like I said before, people who complain just didn't RTFM and got out of their comfort zone.

I got cobol fingers reading that

A common PowerShell complaint, personally I find PowerShell usually takes less keystrokes because the tab completion is flawless.

Hardly makes sense as complaint when nowadays folks are writing book sized prompts to AI agents.

Book sized prompts are equally poor for interactive use, they're typically reused and iterated upon. They're more like scripts than commands.

So a markdown file then, still much more letters than a common COBOL source file.