I came here to repost that XKCD if nobody else had yet. This is exactly why Powershell was invented - a desire to Replace the Shell with something Object-Orien

I came here to repost that XKCD if nobody else had yet. This is exactly why Powershell was invented - a desire to Replace the Shell with something Object-Oriented. Powershell passes .NET objects from function to function through the pipeline, instead of passing simply strings. (Sometimes the objects are strings, but not always).