Below, you can see “find” is an alias for “search”. If you drill in a bit running winget -help you will see if any aliases are available.
When you run winget with no arguments, the default help displays the available commands. Several new command aliases have been added to WinGet that might help a little. If you’ve ever tried to type “dir” on a Linux system or “ls” on Windows, you know what I mean. If you like the colorful display in my prompt, that’s the prompt theme engine I’m using. Since Oh My Posh is available both in the Microsoft Store and the Windows Package Manager community repository, I narrowed the results down to the “winget” source. Below I have an example running winget show oh-my-posh -s winget. The WinGet open-source community has also been busy adding new features like command aliases to help with muscle memory if you use more than one package manager, and a wait argument to keep winget.exe open long enough to see what’s happening if it’s called from other applications.Ī few more manifest values like tags and purchase URL were added to the output (if they are present) of winget show. zip archive or install one or more portable packages from an archive. WinGet can now extract and run an installer inside of a. The Windows Package Manager team has been busy working on WinGet 1.4.
