Hunter Connelly via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> on Thu, 2016/08/18 21:28:
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. --
ls -1 --sort=size | head -n3 main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}