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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by wvenable on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:41PM (#12314042)
I'm not at all convinced that the syntax is any better for typing in as commands in an interactive shell.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by emodendroket on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:50PM (#12314126)
I think it works pretty well for that beyond the weird omission of anything like &&
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by wvenable on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:59PM (#12314221)
It works fine as an interactive shell but that's not exactly high praise. It could be better for that and for scripting but instead tries to be more familiar to bash users. As a bash user, I'm terribly happy about it's syntax either but it's the price to pay for 40 years of backwards compatibility. Powershell has no such excuse.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by emodendroket on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:08PM (#12315449)
True enough.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Senji on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:42PM (#12317652)
It sorely needs an && and a &
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