And so it goes on and on and on and on.Įsfour That's because Windows broken by design all-is-binary concept is not compatible with the usual shell mechanisms. We all remember, a few years ago, MS claimed VBScript to be the definitve scripting environment. And why is MS constantly busy in reinventing the wheel? There are already enough CLIs on this world, like BASH (oder TCLSH -), which are already documented, available nearly everywhere and well known. IMHO this is a little overweight for a command line interface. MHo: It should be noted that the PowerShell CLI requires the. I don't know how one completes those environments. Note that while it is available for free download for Windows XP, a number of its components come in Windows Server 2003 R2 and Vista. It was called Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU). LV Microsoft purchased Interix who makes a POSIX Windows kernel that provides quite a useful command line environment that includes ksh, perl, tcl and other pieces. Bash runs on multiple platforms like Linux, Unix, Mac, etc, and PowerShell is unique to Windows, but still much more robust then the predecessor DOS. Yet another choice for a programmer when they need to script something, but PowerShell's use would only be for Windows oriented tasks. Snichols They're both interpreted languages. Has anyone else tried and what did you think? You can do math operations right within the shell and call other programs like BASH or DOS does. There are some commands that will look familiar ported from Unix, like diff and ls. Snichols I tried it and it's much better then DOS, but comes with many brand new commands, so there's a learning curve involved. JJM Eagle allows bidirectional integration with PowerShell and combined with Garuda it can allow access from/to native Tcl. JJM The link above does not appear to work anymore. JJM PowerShell is now open source PowerShell on GitHub. It can be downloaded and installed for free from this link: Microsoft has developed a more robust command line interface ( CLI) for Windows XP and Windows Vista called Windows PowerShell that is supposed to bring to Windows a Unix style command line.
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