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by nailer 2570 days ago
It's a licensing thing yes. Current bash's are GPLv3, zsh is MIT.

A pity they didn't make a structured output shell rather than traditional regex scraping but their main concern is compatibility, and zsh fits nicely.
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sarah180 2570 days ago
PowerShell is available for Linux & Mac now if you're looking for a structured, object-oriented shell on your Mac.
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robin_reala 2570 days ago
Doesn’t really fit into the posix compatibility bucket though. If that hadn’t had been a concern then I imagine fish is the most Mac-like shell out there.
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nailer 2570 days ago
I'm not sure how much POSIX matters anymore. Linux and MacOS determine 'standard' Unix behavior by their market share - I can understand disliking this though.
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ChrisSD 2570 days ago
The issue I have with Powershell is it's full on objected oriented. Personally I'd like something in between. Structured data where the "methods" are the utilities themselves.
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nailer 2570 days ago
Most of the time (though not always) the methods are the utilities. From https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/#how-does-...

    $results = @{} 
    ls -recurse -filter "eslint-scope" | foreach { 
        $file = "${PSItem}\package.json" 
        $version = cat $file | convertfrom-json | select -ExpandProperty version 
        $results.Add($file,$version) } 
    echo $results | format-list
You don't have to pipe to 'select', 'where' etc - if you send something to grep or select-string you'll be looking for regexs bash-style.
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