PowerShell is more verbose than Bash, and has its idiosyncrasies (like sometimes automatically unwrapping 0/1-element arrays into scalars when you least expect

PowerShell is more verbose than Bash, and has its idiosyncrasies (like sometimes automatically unwrapping 0/1-element arrays into scalars when you least expect it), but it is more productive and more readable. Object-orientation can be nice to produce pipelines. For example: find potential file duplicates in a folder, recursively, by grouping by file size: Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse | Group-Object -Property Length | Where-Object { $_.Count -gt 1 } | Sort-Object -Property Count No need to remember arcane `file` incantations, no need to parse textual output. You get real objects with properties, and tab completion can see their structure. Need to parse JSON? No need to involve `jq`, just `Get-Content -Raw whatever.json | ConvertFrom-Json` and do it directly from PowerShell. Need to convert XML into CSV? ConvertFrom-Xml (or Select-Xml) -> do stuff -> ConvertTo-Csv. Is `Get-ChildItem` too much typing? Use `gci`, or `dir`, or `ls` (by default only on Windows). Is `Where-Object` too much? Try `where` or `?`. And things are case-insensitive.