Re:The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf]
by userbinator on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:48PM
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The correct answer I found is this horrible mess of weird characters and it's completely incomprehensible.
Someone who tries to learn Chinese may have the same thought after having been exposed to nothing but English. The keyword is "language".
The quoting rules in bash/sh are not difficult to memorise, and definitely a must-learn.
I wanted to do floating point math.
Maths is not a strong point of shell languages because they were designed more for string manipulation and gluing other programs together. Try doing pipelines and redirection in a "real programming language", for a contrasting example.
Someone who tries to learn Chinese may have the same thought after having been exposed to nothing but English. The keyword is "language".
The quoting rules in bash/sh are not difficult to memorise, and definitely a must-learn.
I wanted to do floating point math.
Maths is not a strong point of shell languages because they were designed more for string manipulation and gluing other programs together. Try doing pipelines and redirection in a "real programming language", for a contrasting example.
"The right tool for the job".