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I’m using windows again. By default windows has “power shell” which is not at all like bash and is (how do I say this diplomatically)… wanting. I mean it says
by acomjean 1y ago
I’m using windows again. By default windows has “power shell” which is not at all like bash and is (how do I say this diplomatically)… wanting.
I mean it says something the developed the Linux Subsystem for Windows, but it’s an optional install.
- jahsome 1y agoWhat dont you like about powershell? I'm a die hard linux user, and some years ago took a windows gig on a whim. I find powershell fantastic and the only thing that makes my role bearable. Now, one of the first things i install on Linux is powershell.
- philipwhiuk 1y agoThe awk equivalents in power-shell are horrific.
- jahsome 1y agoYou don't find awk itself horrific in its own way?
- stockresearcher 1y agoI watched an interview with Jeff Snover once and he said that they tried to make a unixy bash-like shell a few times and decided it was never going to fit in Windows. So they went a different way and took a lot of inspiration from OpenVMS. So don’t expect PowerShell to be like a UNIX shell. It isn’t, and wasn’t meant to be one. It’s different, on purpose :)
- vips7L 1y agoPowershell is amazing. Just don't expect it to be posix. Using objects and structured data is leagues better than string parsing in posix shells imo.