> in the absence of Bourne-like shells I never had "Oh I would really liked to have *sh on this Win machine". Some GNU tools, like grep (just because findstr h

> in the absence of Bourne-like shells I never had "Oh I would really liked to have *sh on this Win machine". Some GNU tools, like grep (just because findstr has it's own arcaneties) or sed - but neither of them is the part the shell itself. Sure, before 2012 if you wanted a little more flow control than provided by cmd you had not really many options (and if you needed portability you would need to use VB/Jscript, not a 3rd party tool), but since then you have PS3 at worst (on 2012/R2), or at least PS5.1 everywhere else, including client SKUs. And writing even not a complex script with a bunch of if..else is way, way easier in PS, be it for a Win or a *nix machine.