cURL in power shell windows 8.1: “A drive with the name 'localhost' does not exist”

Question

I was testing some nodejs server code and wanted to test the urls from windows power shell using the curl command. Some things to note here: 1. I have mingw and git bash ins

Answer 1

It looks like you already have curl as an alias to Ivoke-WebRequest:

Invoke-WebRequest : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'X'.

Try running remove-item alias:\curl and see if you now get the right curl being invoked. Alternatively, try by specifying the absolute path, i.e. c:\curl\curl.exe ....

Answer 2

Since I updated to PowerShell 4.0, an Alias was created to point to Invoke-WebRequest with the name of curl, so what I've done is I added my own alias to the curl.exe executable I want to use instead:

set-alias mcurl "C:\cygwin\bin\curl.exe"

Powershell 4.0

Get-Alias curl

CommandType Name ModuleName ----------- ---- ---------- Alias curl -> Invoke-WebRequest

My new Alias:

Get-Alias mcurl

CommandType Name ModuleName ----------- ---- ---------- Alias mcurl -> curl.exe