Things learned today:

  • Started a course on PowerShell to learn what it’s all about.
    • Functions based on cmdlets which follow a verb-noun format. The name was chosen primarily for SEO reasons.
    • Typically want to run as administrator to accomplish everything.
    • Has an extensive library of aliases, including standard Unix (ls,mkdir) accessed via ‘gal’
    • Alias naming schema is standard and can be searched via wildcards. Ex: ‘gal cl*’
    • Bash was not effective on Windows because Unix is a document oriented OS while Windows is API oriented.
      • The Unix tools (awk,sed,grep) were not helpful beyond text manipulation
    • help is pretty robust, and in V3 you can update-help.