Powershell may have a stupid syntax, but it’s actually pretty good if you look beyond that. Piping objects between scriptlets is so much better than the awk/grep workflows on Linux.
I tried to use it as a base scripting language for a while but I just can’t get over the super verbose command line. Probably great for scripts, but not great in an interactive terminal.
Yes, that looks quite similar, although the full version of Powershell also has access to almost the entire .NET framework, so it’s an interesting mix between programming language and shell rather than just a shell. This also allows for things like hashmaps and queues rather than plain old arrays, for instance. NuShell does the data exchange well, but doesn’t seem to go all-in on OOP scripting like Powershell does.
Some tools such as WinSCP expose quite a large set of features through this mechanism, which give you a lot more control than what most commands can handle.
It’s like C# but variables are kind of $phpStyle and methods are Capitalised-Kebab-Case for some reason. I find the syntax very easy to read, but rather annoying to write for long, complex commands. Luckily, you can leverage the many IDEs to make the process less painful (or chatgpt I suppose).
Yes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-linux
Should you choose to install it, it will bring the total of people running powershell on linux to one :)
(I’m kidding, of course, more or less)
Powershell may have a stupid syntax, but it’s actually pretty good if you look beyond that. Piping objects between scriptlets is so much better than the awk/grep workflows on Linux.
I tried to use it as a base scripting language for a while but I just can’t get over the super verbose command line. Probably great for scripts, but not great in an interactive terminal.
Never used powershell (thanks heavens, I’ve not touched windows since windows 7). Is it similar to nushell?
Yes, that looks quite similar, although the full version of Powershell also has access to almost the entire .NET framework, so it’s an interesting mix between programming language and shell rather than just a shell. This also allows for things like hashmaps and queues rather than plain old arrays, for instance. NuShell does the data exchange well, but doesn’t seem to go all-in on OOP scripting like Powershell does.
Some tools such as WinSCP expose quite a large set of features through this mechanism, which give you a lot more control than what most commands can handle.
It’s like C# but variables are kind of $phpStyle and methods are Capitalised-Kebab-Case for some reason. I find the syntax very easy to read, but rather annoying to write for long, complex commands. Luckily, you can leverage the many IDEs to make the process less painful (or chatgpt I suppose).