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If you are on Windows or Linux, Powershell is a decent scripting language that comfortably replaces Shell for scripted task running. The commands are vastly mor

If you are on Windows or Linux, Powershell is a decent scripting language that comfortably replaces Shell for scripted task running. The commands are vastly more readable and you get an okay experience with branches. I'd also say that in most cases Python is also a better choice, especially when you use the ! syntax.

Woeps 4y ago
The issue I have with powershell is the extreem verbosity. But that's just a personal thing and not something that I can realy blame the language.
- Kwpolska 4y ago
  The verbosity might be annoying at first, but it does make long pipelines easier to read. This enforced verbosity makes it easier to read than a linux pipeline using some arcane `qw -eRTy` command with no rhyme or reason.
  - Woeps 4y ago
    Not to me, powershell is a pain to write and read with my heavy dyslexia. But again, this is personal. Pretty sure there are other dyslectics who will find that it helps them. So I guess this all depends on person to person
    - moritonal 4y ago
      So, as a fellow dyslexic. Powershell supports complete tab-completion for arguments (even with custom commands), and that includes doing things like writing "get-*" and hitting tab to see possible commands.
- partdavid 4y ago
  The verbosity is optional; most examples you see will be verbose in an effort to be more clear (i.e. Get-ChildItem vs 'gci') but when you have a little experience are typing with Powershell, you'll find the verbosity basically goes away, because you'll be familiar with using aliases and because you won't need abstruse tools and sublanguages (which are more verbose) to do filtering and processing: gci *.txt | %{ $tot += $_.length }; echo $tot That's not more verbose than bash (one way of doing this): ls -l *.txt | awk '{ tot += $5 } END { print tot }' So you'll see the pipeline written (in an example, for clarity), more like: Get-ChildItem *.txt | ForEach-Object { $tot += $_.length }; Write-Output $tot But that's not how you'd usually use it; until/unless you're putting it in a script. Note that 'ls -l' and guessing that you want to total up field 5 is brittle in way that the Powershell snippet isn't, but I'm leaving that issue aside.
partdavid 4y ago
Powershell works great on MacOS; it's my primary shell.

Woeps 4y ago

The issue I have with powershell is the extreem verbosity. But that's just a personal thing and not something that I can realy blame the language.

Kwpolska 4y ago
The verbosity might be annoying at first, but it does make long pipelines easier to read. This enforced verbosity makes it easier to read than a linux pipeline using some arcane `qw -eRTy` command with no rhyme or reason.
- Woeps 4y ago
  Not to me, powershell is a pain to write and read with my heavy dyslexia. But again, this is personal. Pretty sure there are other dyslectics who will find that it helps them. So I guess this all depends on person to person
  - moritonal 4y ago
    So, as a fellow dyslexic. Powershell supports complete tab-completion for arguments (even with custom commands), and that includes doing things like writing "get-*" and hitting tab to see possible commands.
partdavid 4y ago
The verbosity is optional; most examples you see will be verbose in an effort to be more clear (i.e. Get-ChildItem vs 'gci') but when you have a little experience are typing with Powershell, you'll find the verbosity basically goes away, because you'll be familiar with using aliases and because you won't need abstruse tools and sublanguages (which are more verbose) to do filtering and processing: gci *.txt | %{ $tot += $_.length }; echo $tot That's not more verbose than bash (one way of doing this): ls -l *.txt | awk '{ tot += $5 } END { print tot }' So you'll see the pipeline written (in an example, for clarity), more like: Get-ChildItem *.txt | ForEach-Object { $tot += $_.length }; Write-Output $tot But that's not how you'd usually use it; until/unless you're putting it in a script. Note that 'ls -l' and guessing that you want to total up field 5 is brittle in way that the Powershell snippet isn't, but I'm leaving that issue aside.

partdavid 4y ago

Powershell works great on MacOS; it's my primary shell.