What dont you like about powershell?

I'm a die hard linux user, and some years ago took a windows gig on a whim. I find powershell fantastic and the only thing that makes my role bearable. Now, one of the first things i install on Linux is powershell.

The awk equivalents in power-shell are horrific.

You don't find awk itself horrific in its own way?

I watched an interview with Jeff Snover once and he said that they tried to make a unixy bash-like shell a few times and decided it was never going to fit in Windows. So they went a different way and took a lot of inspiration from OpenVMS.

So don’t expect PowerShell to be like a UNIX shell. It isn’t, and wasn’t meant to be one. It’s different, on purpose :)

Powershell is amazing. Just don't expect it to be posix. Using objects and structured data is leagues better than string parsing in posix shells imo.