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Tbh I’ve found powershell approach better and also more verbose. Powershells commands are all named in the same way, with built-in support to make finding comma

Tbh I’ve found powershell approach better and also more verbose. Powershells commands are all named in the same way, with built-in support to make finding commands straightforward. Though it takes a while to get used to it. Explorability is better IMO with an approach like powershell. The downside is even though you can setup aliases, it still seems like powershell scripts are longer to input that bash and sometimes not as powerful.

bbkane 4y ago
I really find it difficult to find the specific command I want. The verb-noun convention doesn't really lend itself to nested subcommands. At least with the Azure CLI I can generally navigate to the command and action I want with tab completion
- juki 4y ago
  The Verb-Noun convention isn't that bad once you learn the approved verbs well enough to know which one the command you're looking for would be using. After you have the right verb, tab-completion works fine. Also, `Get-Command` (built-in alias `gcm`) is very helpful. E.g. PS> gcm *build* CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias Build-Checkpoint 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Build-Parallel 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Invoke-Build 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Application mcbuilder.exe 10.0.2200… C:\Windows\system32\mcbuilder.exe Or find everything from a module: PS> gcm -m InvokeBuild CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias Build-Checkpoint 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Build-Parallel 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Invoke-Build 5.8.6 InvokeBuild And at least if you use `MenuComplete` for tab (`Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete` in your profile), you can also just write `*<noun>` and hit tab. It will offer completions regardless of the verb.
bzxcvbn 4y ago
Powershell defines tons of aliases to mimic bash, eg rm is an alias for remove-item, ls for get-childitems, cat for get-content, etc. What I like about Powershell is that arguments gets aliases too, for example -cf is the standard alias for -confirm.
- ElectricalUnion 4y ago
  The cool part about those aliases is that invoking Get-Help on them (say, Get-Help ls) will show you the relevant documentation of the non-aliased full commandlet name.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  The best thing with parameters in PS is what you don't need to write parameter name fully, and it is supported everywhere, while only some *nix tools support it (most notably 'ip')

bbkane 4y ago

I really find it difficult to find the specific command I want. The verb-noun convention doesn't really lend itself to nested subcommands. At least with the Azure CLI I can generally navigate to the command and action I want with tab completion

juki 4y ago
The Verb-Noun convention isn't that bad once you learn the approved verbs well enough to know which one the command you're looking for would be using. After you have the right verb, tab-completion works fine. Also, `Get-Command` (built-in alias `gcm`) is very helpful. E.g. PS> gcm *build* CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias Build-Checkpoint 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Build-Parallel 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Invoke-Build 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Application mcbuilder.exe 10.0.2200… C:\Windows\system32\mcbuilder.exe Or find everything from a module: PS> gcm -m InvokeBuild CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias Build-Checkpoint 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Build-Parallel 5.8.6 InvokeBuild Alias Invoke-Build 5.8.6 InvokeBuild And at least if you use `MenuComplete` for tab (`Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete` in your profile), you can also just write `*<noun>` and hit tab. It will offer completions regardless of the verb.

bzxcvbn 4y ago

Powershell defines tons of aliases to mimic bash, eg rm is an alias for remove-item, ls for get-childitems, cat for get-content, etc. What I like about Powershell is that arguments gets aliases too, for example -cf is the standard alias for -confirm.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
The cool part about those aliases is that invoking Get-Help on them (say, Get-Help ls) will show you the relevant documentation of the non-aliased full commandlet name.
justsomehnguy 4y ago
The best thing with parameters in PS is what you don't need to write parameter name fully, and it is supported everywhere, while only some *nix tools support it (most notably 'ip')