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Fish is good, but most shells pale in comparison to powershell unfortunately.

by nojito 5y ago

philipswood 5y ago
PowerShell: Maybe the learning curve is steep or something, but the times I've had to use it I disliked it. I want to like it. It's goals and purposes seem to be in the right place, but.... Nope.
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pxc 5y ago
PowerShell is definitely way more capable a scripting language, but it pales in comparison to Fish when it comes to speed, ease, and pleasantness of interactive use. There's a new generation of shells on the rise which look up to both Fish and PowerShell as models of different virtues they want to embody. A lot of them are already usable, and some day a few of them will be killer apps for developers and sysadmins
- nojito 5y ago
  Nothing is speedier, easier, or more interactive than Get-Help in Powershell. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/get-help?view=powershell-7.2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft... Using other shells is like living in the stone age. I don't know why people would do that to themselves.
  - pxc 5y ago
    Get-Help is pretty good, but I don't like several things about it: 1. You have to go out of your way to fetch the full help pages on a given PowerShell installation (they're not stored locally by default). 2. Even after you fetch the full help, not all of it is actually included in the Get-Help output (IIRC examples), so you often need to use `Get-Help -Online`, which opens a separate application (browser) and that sucks 3. Inside the terminal, there's little to no special formatting or syntax highlighting, unlike what you get with a good `man` pager 4. Get-Help output (unlike `man` output as configured on most distros) is not paged by default. `man` could be better, and I don't really vibe with `info`, but Get-Help isn't that great imo. The actual content of the help is quite good, and it's nice that it includes examples, but the same is true of most man pages.
  - tourist2d 5y ago
    A one liner in bash is an essay in powershell
    - nojito 5y ago
      sure if your TAB key is broken.
  - laumars 5y ago
    Loads of shells have an equivalent to Get-Help

Fish is good, but most shells pale in comparison to powershell unfortunately.

by nojito 5y ago

Fish is good, but most shells pale in comparison to powershell unfortunately.

PowerShell: Maybe the learning curve is steep or something, but the times I've had to use it I disliked it. I want to like it. It's goals and purposes seem to be in the right place, but.... Nope.

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pxc 5y ago

PowerShell is definitely way more capable a scripting language, but it pales in comparison to Fish when it comes to speed, ease, and pleasantness of interactive use. There's a new generation of shells on the rise which look up to both Fish and PowerShell as models of different virtues they want to embody. A lot of them are already usable, and some day a few of them will be killer apps for developers and sysadmins

nojito 5y ago
Nothing is speedier, easier, or more interactive than Get-Help in Powershell. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/get-help?view=powershell-7.2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft... Using other shells is like living in the stone age. I don't know why people would do that to themselves.
- pxc 5y ago
  Get-Help is pretty good, but I don't like several things about it: 1. You have to go out of your way to fetch the full help pages on a given PowerShell installation (they're not stored locally by default). 2. Even after you fetch the full help, not all of it is actually included in the Get-Help output (IIRC examples), so you often need to use `Get-Help -Online`, which opens a separate application (browser) and that sucks 3. Inside the terminal, there's little to no special formatting or syntax highlighting, unlike what you get with a good `man` pager 4. Get-Help output (unlike `man` output as configured on most distros) is not paged by default. `man` could be better, and I don't really vibe with `info`, but Get-Help isn't that great imo. The actual content of the help is quite good, and it's nice that it includes examples, but the same is true of most man pages.
- tourist2d 5y ago
  A one liner in bash is an essay in powershell
  - nojito 5y ago
    sure if your TAB key is broken.
- laumars 5y ago
  Loads of shells have an equivalent to Get-Help