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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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.
RE[2]: I don't get PowerShell
by grfgguvf on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:05
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Member since:2005-09-20
>It can't replace the BAT files.
I like 4DOS: http://4dos.z-bg.com/
RE[2]: I don't get PowerShell
by rcsteiner on Tue 8th Jul 2008 17:26
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RE: I don't get PowerShell
by BluenoseJake on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:26
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I love powershell, it is much more powerful and flexible than batch files, even with the limited branching that batch files support.
I'm well on my way to purging my servers of as many batch files as possible, replacing them with ps scripts, as it gets rid of so many 3rd party tools (like blat). Because it's .NET based, it allows you to write directly to the eventlog, watch directories for changes, access AD, you name it.
Less 3rd party tools mean simpler environments.
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I don't get PowerShell. After years of hype, after a couple of studied books on PowerShell, it is still feels like a overweight, totally-incompatible and awkward way of automating/scripting things.
It can't replace the BAT files.
For simple tasks, I prefer just built-in, established means (bash on Unix, BAT files on Windows). For more advanced things, there is always Perl/Ruby/Python.