PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by jjnoakes on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:19PM (#12322154)

And yet most of the time I see bash being used for the same kind of automation that you think is good for perl/python.

And not because bash is good, but because it is what people know (since they use it interactively) and because it is installed everywhere.

So if someone had a tool that was installed everywhere, and used interactively, that could also be used to create more robust automation tasks, that seems like a win to me.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:36PM (#12323658)

It depends on how complex the automation is. I'd no doubt use a pipeline in places where you'd use perl/python.

As for interactive use and robust automation, Bash isn't as bad as you'd think. The reason I'd go to python is because of script complexity, not lack of robustness.

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