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Comment by FergusArgyll | Hacker News Reader

Considering the way PowerShell commands go, I assume this will be:

  RunWithAllTheElevatedPermissionsPossible --YesEvenThose .\inthisfolder.folder\.

  grep : The term 'grep' is not recognized....

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It's evident that you haven't used PowerShell. Almost all commands in PowerShell have short aliases. For instance, instead of typing 'Get-ChildItem', you can simply use 'gci', which stands for the first letters of each word. Unlike Bash and other shells, where you must learn various Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) to handle XML, JSON, YAML, etc., PowerShell allows you to use its native language to work with any data type. This is because PowerShell operates on objects rather than plain text. Therefore, PowerShell is significantly more advanced than other shells.

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Hiyo!

Yep, aliases help. Also, verbs are standardized. That example was a bit hyperbolic.

Most of my work is in Linux nowadays, but for me, jq, yq, and other text manipulation software and shell features in bash/zsh will always take a back seat to using the standard commands that ship with PowerShell. I wince every time I see a co-worker using a pipeline full of parse-and-pray greps and awks that is fancy af and amazing, but also, maybe not as nice or consistent as working with objects.

I will say though, you might say "PowerShell is more convenient in many scenarios," not that it's more advanced.

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Yes. But if you Program, you do NOT want to use the aliases as they make your program hard to maintain over time. Little equivalent to banning short options and preferring long options in shell scripts. It makes the intent much clearer and your future you will thank you 6 months after the script was written when you have a bug to squash away...

Yeah I tend to use both. For some more involved scripting sometimes the verbose command proper names are nice as it reads better, but the short names are nice when hacking

Sir, you're doing PowerShell wrong:

   Run-WithAllTheElevatedPermissionsPossible -YesEvenThose .\inthisfolder.folder\.

See, verb-noun. and single dash. because reasons?

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