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I heard Windows PowerShell was decent. No first hand experience though

• Derbasti 14y ago
  But it is not Unix.
  • tsahyt 14y ago
    If Unix is what you want, you shouldn't be using a system that isn't Unix (or Unix-like in the case of Linux). However, there's still Cygwin which is reasonably good.
    • Derbasti 14y ago
      Except that it is dog slow, horribly out of date, neither really compatible with Windows nor Unix paths, and lacking support for graphical stuff. Well, I use msys and eshell instead, which I find less jarring.
• jw_ 14y ago
  It's unbelievably verbose and the documentation sucks hard. Also, working on remote machines is unreasonably annoying. It is decent at manipulating structured data though.
• joe_the_user 14y ago
  The thing about the Unix shell is that not only is it extremely power and flexible, it is designed to work with pure ascii so it can used on many remote, bare bones machines and it really is there running on many remote, bare bones machines. And given all this there are many people with strong skills in that shell and a strong attachment to that shell (for rational and irrational reasons imho). With all this, it would be hard to replace this shell even with something that's better. That actually makes me sad since actually dislike using it since for all its power, much of it is annoying and bass-ackwards imho again.