[jules]

I do only easy things with Powershell and I found it much nicer than classical shells. It's more consistent in the command names and parameter passing. You also need to learn far fewer commands, because Powershell follows the Unix philosophy of small tools that do one thing well much more than Bash+Unix tools. For example if you do "ls" then you get a table where one of the columns is LastWriteTime. Want to sort by that column? "ls | sort lastwritetime". This works without hassle because ls returns a list of objects, and sort sorts a list of objects by a given property, instead of serializing everything to text that would need to be parsed first. I'm sure that Unixes' ls has an option built in to ls to sort by that column, but off the top of my head I have no idea what it is, and many commands that output lists of things do not have that option.

You even get autocompletion across commands: if you type "ls | sort _" where _ is the cursor, then you get a list of properties that you can sort objects returned by ls by (LastAccessTime, LastWriteTime, Extension, etc).

[alttab]

Just one more way that ms produces developers that cant do anything on their own, or outside visual studio.

Just my experience, but most ms developers have been crippled by their tooling. Powershell is no exception.

[noveltyaccount]

"Powershell makes it easier to discover commands"

"You're weak and have been crippled by your tools."

o_o You're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Upgrade your tools and be free from menial labor.

[alttab]

I disagree. All the time spent finding and learning new tools can be spent getting things done. I use bash, vi, grep, and man and I can get 95% of what I need done with just those.

[noveltyaccount]

Good for you. As long as we're making up numbers: I can get 100% of what I need done in 80% of the time as you, simply because I use superior tools that eliminate menial labour. Get out of your bubble.