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Originally Posted by BWinmill
It sounds like we're in agreement for similar reasons. Powershell appears to be an amazing tool, but Microsoft let its predecessor stagnate for far to long while Unix was steadily improving and Apple was working on analagous tools for their GUI (i.e. AppleScript). I suspect that led Microsoft to go a wee bit overboard on their new shell, and create something that relatively few people have the background to use effectively.
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Powershell's name is no joke. I've studied it superficially, and it really *is* powerful. Actually, it seems to be a complete programming environment. As far as I was able to see, it probably at least matches, maybe even exceeds the common shells you care to use on Unix.
From 1996 to the beginning of 1999, I had to work with the DOS BAT-scripts (thank god for 4NT... which made it a bit better), while I came from OS/2. It included a very powerful CMD-shell and the scripting language REXX. I was shocked to find out that Windows NT's "CMD.exe" was no better than DOS's, and that it had nothing to do with the highly powerful "CMD.exe" in OS/2. Cygwin did and does all I need and I was in heaven after discovering it in 1999.
At the time Powershell came along, I didn't need it anymore. Maybe, one day, I may need it if I want to script Windows-specific stuff.