Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by flukus on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:58AM (#13326196)

The difference is that windows/PowerShell don't provide the programs that make a she'll useful.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by ygra on Thursday January 05, 2017 @06:04AM (#13326222)

Wow, then I've done a lot of apparently-useless PowerShell work.

I beg to differ, by the way. Different is not the same as »not useful«. It's not a traditional Unix shell and doesn't pretend or want to be. That doesn't make it useless, just different.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by tremon on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:13AM (#13326819)

It's not a traditional Unix shell and doesn't pretend or want to be.

Except in the sense that it provides aliases for most popular Unix shell commands. They even made their aliases incompatible with other Unices, like every other traditional Unix shell.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by loopykidney on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:58AM (#13327534)

I agree that powershell is far from useless, but it does feel like there are a lot of cmdlets missing out of the box. It's real easy to end up in Get-WmiObject land for everyday admin tasks.

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Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated by ygra on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:41AM (#13327953)

But WMI is really, really huge. I can understand that there is a bit resistance to providing cmdlet wrappers around every single WMI class, although I think on Windows Server there are a lot more things exposed by default (and I think even more in modules that are not loaded by default).

Also, since PowerShell can work with WMI objects natively it's already close to what a cmdlet can provide.

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