You can already test PowerShell in Ubuntu, Debian and CentOSrn

In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I’ll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

  • @drspod@lemmy.ml
    22•23 days ago

    bash scripting is not intended to perform all of your logic in the scripting language, it’s intended to call out to other programs which perform specific tasks. The entire POSIX command set is your bash scripting language.

    Your script is a simple one-liner if you know some simple commands:

    $ head -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words | tee /dev/stderr | tr -d '\n' | wc -c
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    • irelephant [he/him]🍭
      4•23 days ago

      I can do that as well:

      $l = Get-Content "example.txt" -TotalCount 1; Write-Output $l; ($l.TrimEnd("`r", "`n")).Length

      There’s a condensed version using aliases then:

      $l = gc 'example.txt' -TotalCount 1; $l; ($l.TrimEnd("`r", "`n")).Length

      I still think it has a better syntax than bash.