Bash Vs Powershell
Here’s an interesting little piece comparing Microsoft’s PowerShell to good old Bash.
It is as non-biased as I have seen these comparisons be and it does a good job of pointing out the major difference, PowerShell is object-oriented and Bash isn’t. I don’t think that this in itself is reason enough to consider one better than the other, but it does mean that PowerShell can have a very steep learning curve whilst overall being more powerful.
It is an interesting PDF so have a look if you get chance.
Tags: Powershell
July 15th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Have you seen any of the sample cmdlets from the VI Toolkit? I’m a perl/shell guy, and even I can start from the examples and monkey-see monkey-do I’m going. The object orientation (and appropriate level of abstraction) makes the toolkit muuuch easier. The language details shouldn’t phase anybody that’s written a script.
Get-VM | select-object Name, Host | export-csv file.csv -notype
July 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
John, I totally agree and coming from a VB background I really, really love PowerShell, especially when used in conjunction with the VI toolkit.
I just wanted to point out that to get the most out of it a decent understanding might be advantageous, but you’re right it is not essential by any means!
Thanks for commenting!