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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux (www.cio.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (55 children)

Powershell is annoyingly good though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No grep though as far as I could find... There was a similar cmdlet IIRC, but it was extremely limited and didn't work well (this was years ago though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Select-String

It’s really useful too. You can either pipe in text or for example Get-ChildItem a directory of files and it will parse them all. As usual it returns a helpful object with properties like line number.

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