Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
by UK-AL on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:05PM
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That what you would do with text? If you have no idea what its outputting, explore it by putting it to the console.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
by vvanders on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:08PM
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Sure, but with text you might have empty fields that are just omitted. With Powershell you can see that the field exists but is empty.
There's a bunch of subtle distinctions like that which don't sound impressive but end up being really nice when working with it.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
by WorldMaker on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:21PM
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What you can't do so easily with text is also just auto-convert that object directly to JSON or YAML or CSV, for that matter, and forward that easily into your favorite JSON/YAML/CSV exploration tool.