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so one of the best ideas to ever come out of microsoft is an attempt to copy the functionality of bash and incorporate it into their .net ecosystem? i hardly th

• Already__Taken 3y ago
  > why invent PowerShell, why not just use ksh or bash? I’m a long time Unix dev so that was my first instinct. I tried and failed. There is a core architectural difference between Unix and Windows. Linux is a file-oriented OS and Windows is an API-oriented OS. In Linux, if you can modify a file and run a process, you can manage anything. That is why awk, sed, and grep are management tools. At the time, nothing on Windows worked that way. Everything was behind an API which returned a structured object. That is why awk doesn’t work with WMI, sed doesn’t work with Active Directory, and grep doesn’t work against the registry. I had to invent a new tool that manipulated this environment. - Jeffrey Snover, Powershell Inventor. https://evrone.com/blog/jeffrey-snover-interview https://evrone.com/blog/jeffrey-snover-interview Literally designed not to copy bash.
• steve1977 3y ago
  It’s not like bash (or UNIX shells in general) have invented command line interfaces…