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If you're stuck in windows like I am at work you really need to try MS Powershell. It works great. I'm just as comfortable with it as I am with bash at home. It's object based scripting is quite cool also; you can do COM automation in a very simple manner. I do traditionally file maintenance stuff and more slick MS Office automation with Powershell. Totally recommend it if you have to use Windows.
I've heard of the product, but never anyone saying if it's good or bad, thus I never messed with it. Thanks for the heads up.
I use PowerShell for over a year. Console2 makes a pretty nice wrapper for it as well, giving you multiple tabs and cut/paste.