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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by hirsin »

shadowmint wrote: post #34

Is this actually useful? I always thought powershell was largely just for interacting with windows components, like installing an msi or talking to active directory. What would you actually practically use this for on a linux box?

Scripting. While I typically use Bash on Windows to use grep to interactively test my webserver, I'm much happier using Powershell ISE (which I don't know was ported [1]) to write standard tests with multiple parts, particularly ones that require e.g. checking cookies on the response.

1. Looks like they ported a service that does the same. https://github.com/powershell/powershelleditorservices

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by satysin »

SixSigma wrote: post #27
larrik wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a full-time Linux user, I have to say that bash is overrated. For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, then enter, then DOWN until I run them all. In Bash, I need to press UP 20x every single time. Yes, you can customize it a lot, and you can script it but default bash isn't that spe…

Bash is awful. But so are shells in general. Even Rob Pike says as soon as your shell program gets longer than a few lines, write it in a proper language.

I feel that principle is true from all high-level languages as you move down the chain.

Shell scripts should be 1-20 lines. Python/Ruby/whatever for 20-100 and compiled for anything >100.

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by yumaikas »

Powershell is the first language where I managed to save time by writing a program for a task. Needless to say, I'm thrilled at the prospect of using it on Linux. The only thing that I hope they will need to work on is startup time making sure it performs well on low-spec servers (It can be a bit slow starting cold on older laptops).

    ls -Recurse | ? { $_.Name -match ".+docx" }

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by gcr »

satysin wrote: post #51
otoburb wrote: post #5

Microsoft is projecting that the .NET ecosystem will become a main revenue driver, regardless of the underlying operating system.

Which is why I have no doubt the Universal Windows Platform will become the Universal Platform and be a true desktop/tablet/mobile/server/etc Java competitor on all major OS (mobile, traditional and server). It must be rather frustrating for Microsoft to look back a decade or more and see they were sitting on the exact technology a hell of a lot of people said would be their future had they made it cross-platform fro…

But that's what .NET wanted to be. That's what Silverlight wanted to be.

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by petepete »

pm215 wrote: post #56
larrik wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a full-time Linux user, I have to say that bash is overrated. For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, then enter, then DOWN until I run them all. In Bash, I need to press UP 20x every single time. Yes, you can customize it a lot, and you can script it but default bash isn't that spe…

You can use control-O for that, which does "execute this command as if I pressed enter, then when it's done bring up the following command in command line prompt". So if you have a set of commands to run that are 20 lines up in history, you can first find them (with 20x UP or by reverse-search), then just control-O control-O control-O control-O ... to execute them one after another.

I wasn't aware of this. Thank you.

Not that I've been using Bash and zsh every day for twelve plus years...

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by wvenable »

Analemma_ wrote: post #6

PowerShell is my guilty pleasure of the computing world. Once you've piped strongly-typed objects around between your shell commands, text scraping seems barbaric by comparison. The problem, of course, is that you can't use all that power for much, since the pool of PS-compatible tools and utilities is much shallower than it is for Unix shells. I'm really hoping this will help spur a new wave of PowerShell-compatible…

I love the strongly-typed cookies but I absolutely hate the powershell syntax. It's like C# and Bash got together and had a really ugly baby.

Re: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

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Post by oblio »

clebio wrote: post #55
RubyMyDear wrote: post #45

People laugh at me when I tell them I switched "back" to Windows after decades of Unix and Mac programming. But it's a really good, productive platform. Microsoft really seems to be heading in the right direction now. I hope .NET starts taking off on other platforms, too, because it really is a much better system than Brand "J".

If only they resolve the privacy leakage concerns in a reasonable manner.

In the Windows 10 thread someone posted this hilarious comic: http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/

We just have to hope that "our" guys (OSSers) have bigger guns than "those" guys (privacy destroyers).

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