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Pwsh = Powershell. I use it from time to time yet the short name didn’t click when I read title.

• rudiv 7y ago
  I thought the short-form most people used was `posh`, personally, but I might be wrong.
  • felixfbecker 7y ago
    pwsh is simply the name of the binary of PowerShell Core. They gave it a different name to allow side-by-side installation, and to align with other shells on *nix (sh, bash, zsh, fish, ...)
  • nailer 7y ago
    Another shell had the name 'posh', so it's officially 'pwsh' now. That's also the binary name, like Bourne Again Shell is 'bash'.
• nizmow 7y ago
  > Pwsh = Powershell. I use it from time to time yet the short name didn’t click when I read title. pwsh is typically used to refer to Powershell Core for generally confusing reasons (mostly that on Windows "classic" Powershell continues to exist and be supported for various Windows-only tasks).
  • jodrellblank 7y ago
    It’s not powershell core anymore it’s just powershell, because it’s the only powershell in development and intended to be the main version. The older one is “Windows Powershell” to disambiguate them.
    • ianai 7y ago
      When was this change made? Like which OS updates.
      • pheouk 7y ago
        kind of the whole point behind it was wanting to decouple the Powershell release cadence from that of Windows, getting updated versions of things in Windows is -hard- Powershell 7 (which just dropped RC2) is the Powershell going forward, it's based on .NET Core, its xplat, it's the one with all the dev resources assigned to it Windows Powershell ships with windows, and is still at 5.1 at last check Powershell Core 6 will be the only major version of Powershell core, 7 drops the core moniker
        • ianai 7y ago
          That level of complexity is not helpful to adoption.
• mehrdadn 7y ago
  Aren't they different? I thought pwsh was the cross-platform version that supported slightly different feature.