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Exactly right. It's so funny when people cite one of Powershell's selling points as the fact that it's "extensible", meaning that you have to write programs sp
by lottin 10y ago
Exactly right. It's so funny when people cite one of Powershell's selling points as the fact that it's "extensible", meaning that you have to write programs specifically designed to be compatible with it.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWell, it CAN call out to unix commands, but it has poor text manipulation capabilities...
- jodrellblank 10y agoa) You don't, it can read text through stdin from any utility which outputs text. b) Other shell utilities aren't magically compatible with each other, they have to be "specifically designed" to output representations of information in compatible text forms. Which is an ad-hoc thing, hence the existance of parameters like -0 makes the output null terminated instead of newline terminated, for compatibility with tools x,y,z.