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Why is wget no longer an alias for Invoke-WebRequest?
It seems that, at some point, [at least Windows PowerShell 5.1], PowerShell supported wget as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. In newer versions [at least PowerShell (Core) 7.0], this is no longer th...
PowerShell Core is cross platform and wget already exist in Linux environments.
Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP , HTTPS , and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.
Alias was removed to avoid any confusions when you are running PowerShell on Linux.
Reference: https://github.com/shyiko/jabba/issues/527
Hope that helps.