A review of windows powershell

ok I have to admit that windows is beginning to interest me, microsoft just launched a new shell named powershell for all the command line geek out there. I am now beginning to like using it, because of it robustness and also it’s command line oriented. I can even use almost all the command in linux in powershell (i.e cp, ls, mv ,etc). For me powershell is almost the same as BASH in linux, so I can administered my windows system properly without having to go through GUI.

here are reason why powershell differ from bash
1. bash is a tiny little shell which ties together thousands of
applications designed to process text.
2.powershell is an object-oriented scripting language and command
console, which passes objects (not text) from one command to the next ….functionally, they can do many of the same things ….

On Windows, PowerShell is far superior because it gives you access to the
windows management instrumentation which is object-based, not text-based. In fact, as a general scripting language, PowerShell is far
superior, because it’s fully capable as a programming language, with
full access to the .Net framework … so in a sense, it’s like Bash + Perl

 

source : #powershell at freenode