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In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

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[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Fair, but very very very often (unless you are a full time daily user of the commandlet and all objects you may run into or have a photographic memory) you don't know the actual specific property or object exact verbatim and have to rely on a very quick search to remember that one object you used 3 months ago once that you need now for example. Or you want to see where/if something is referenced in another subset of programs like a specific IP, another program, a resource taken up, etc...

That is mostly what grep is used for: discovery and reference, which powershell I don't think has a substitute for so instead you have to sort through documentation and forums.

[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Not trying to be difficult, but that's what get-member is for - it'll dump all the properties for a given object.

I get it - it's way different from bash - speaking as someone who has been using Linux since Debian Hamm. Side note, net installers over dialup really sucked.

I was originally forced to use powershell when I joined up with a virtualization team for work and they used PowerCLI.

It was bonkers how easy it was to get reproducible scripts bundled up for the more junior engineers.

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