On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Why would anyone want to use an overly-verbose scripting language like > PowerShell as an interactive shell, **unless it was their only option**? While I tend to prefer Unix-style shells, there are *some* things that PowerShell does better. Here's an example I found on Reddit in the thread about this on /r/linux. Both of the following commands find the size and name of the three largest files in a directory. Bash: ls -l | sed 's/ \+/,/g' | cut -d',' -f 5,9 | sort -g | tail -3 PowerShell: ls -file | sort -pr length | select length, name -l 3 What seems to be the most noticable difference is that PowerShell, being an object-oriented language, pipes objects instead of raw text. I think this might make many things easier while writing scripts.
