Linked by Adam S on Tue 8th Jul 2008 12:47 UTC
In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Powershell, a new command line shell that, via cmdlets, scripts, and executables, allow core system administration tasks to be scripted. While this functionality has been available on Unix-type systems for decades, Microsoft's version will almost certainly, within a few years, be available on several hundred million PCs. So how does the Powershell stack up against Linux favorite bash? MSDN links to this Bash vs Powershell article.
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2006-02-23
From what I understand PowerShell more or less is intended to replace standard BAT files. Maybe you can elaborate a bit as to why it cannot replace BAT files in your view.
While I am no expert on PowerShell, I do like the idea of using introspection to preserve type information between processes connected through a pipe. In Bash you are mostly stuck to using awk to parse the text-only output of some tool, since all type info has been lost.
Does anyone know why they chose the '$' like PHP syntax for variables? Does this facilitate parsing or something? The dollar sign in PHP mostly feels redundant, although the double $$ is sometimes really handy.