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by zub 3947 days ago
Mhmm. I wrote a set of PowerShell scripts to do some basic deployment stuff a while back and I discovered...

- Timing issues with something as simple as "remove file," where the agreed upon Stack Overflow solution was to call it "a few more times until you didn't get an error."

- Broken implementations of recursive folder copy.

- Okay, we'll call upon "rm" and "rmdir" -- oh, PowerShell intercepts those and invokes the previously described buggy routines. (Eventually figured out that I needed to shell out completely.)

In the end I regretted writing these crummy house-of-cards PowerShell scripts.