> PowerShell, being an object-oriented language When we need an object oriented language for administering (or scripting) Arch , why not use Python (or one of our other OO options)? Is there any strong use case for PowerShell on Arch given the tools that are already available? I only see one use case: Azure. MS need PowerShell to run on Linux on Azure. Therefore, I think you need to ask your question to the right audience -- people who use Azure. Some Arch people apparently do. Archlinux on Azure | Inside Out http://codito.in/archlinux-on-azure/ Arch Linux on Microsoft Azure https://gist.github.com/z3ntu/e2750efd7f0b93ab3427f097de3fbefa Archlinux on Azure | Inside Out http://codito.in/archlinux-on-azure/ On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Hunter Connelly via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >
