PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by klibertp on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:15PM (#12315516)

0: scsh is a nice scripting language, however it's not meant for interactive usage (PowerShell is) See: http://www.alphanet.ch/~schinz/scsh-faq/scsh-faq_4.html#SEC3... Scheme is also dynamically typed.

1: It's the first time I see it, but from a cursory glance and some docs (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-...) I think it doesn't include simply calling external commands (I couldn't find any info on how to wrap an external executable with type, too). Without this, it can't be a real "shell", only a scripting DSL for Haskell. It's not very good for interactive use as it relies on ghci.

2: tcsh is meant for interactive use and is a shell; I used it when working with FreeBSD but never wrote any scripts in it. However, I don't see any mention of types in it's manual (other than file types): http://linux.die.net/man/1/tcsh

PowerShell is statically typed like Turtle, has a nice scripting language like scsh and is meant for interactive use. It's not only typed, but also (partly) object oriented and with full and direct access to all .NET/Mono classes. That also implies that you can write commands in any of the CLR-targeting languages, by the way, like F# or Clojure-CLR.

PowerShell is unique (not literally so, as I'm sure there are other projects doing similar things, but I think it's safe to say that it's unique among widely used shells) in what it provides and in that it takes all that into interactive use. It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't already. Of course, keep in mind its problems, like the mentioned smaller number of already available utilities.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by codygman on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:30PM (#12317612)

> I think it doesn't include simply calling external commands

proc and inshell. Did you check out the built-in tutorial?

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-...

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by iso-8859-1 on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:25AM (#12319283)

You're linking to an old version. Here is the current version: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle/docs/Turtle-Tutori...

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by klibertp on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:20AM (#12320637)

Yes, I skimmed it. But please note that I wrote about "simply" calling external executables, where you can just type the name of a program and have it run. Turtle doesn't even try to allow this (while PowerShell has it), instead going in the opposite direction:

> Most of the commands in this library do not actually invoke an external shell or program. Instead, they indirectly wrap other Haskell libraries that bind to C code.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by codygman on Sunday August 21, 2016 @11:54AM (#12331326)

inshell "ls" would do what you are talking about, unless your bar for simple is just typing ls.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by dleslie on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:59PM (#12321482)

I was mistaken about tcsh' type system. It's not strongly typed:

    ~> @ i = 0 + "foo"
    @: Expression Syntax.
    ~> @ i = 0 + "1"
    ~> echo $i
    1

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