Microsoft PowerShell RC1

rst+ack writes "Microsoft has released RC1 version of PowerShell the .NET-based shell with perl-like syntax previously known as Monad or MSH. PowerShell (PS) has been covered a few times on Slashdot. Contrary to cmd.exe and Unix/Linux shells it operates on objects, not text when passing data between scripts and executables. Easy access to .NET classes allows users to create quite advanced solutions in short time. PS won't be shipped with Vista or Windows Server 2007 but it will debut with Exchange 12."

Comments

can you?

[killjoe]

Can you resize the window and copy and paste easily into the windows. If so it's already 10 times better then CMD.EXE.

Re:can you?

[Opportunist]

Not only that, but you can do it in THREE DEEE!

Beats me why this should offer any benefit, but you can do it in THREE DEEE!

Re:can you?

[Opportunist]

Now THAT's a reason to upgrade...

Re:can you?

[Thud457]

more like Microsoft POWERVIRUS RC1!

It's in ALL CAPS because it's THAT POWERFUL!

Re:can you?

[drinkypoo]

Now if only the window could be made transparent, I'd have everything I want. Or close enough.

Re:can you?

[forkazoo]

You can do both with cmd.exe ... check the properties of the window and adjust the buffer sizes to your taste.

Increasing the buffer size still doesn't let you resize the window horizontally, although it does allow you to increase the size vertically. It's a fixed width window, which really stinks.

It certainly isn't what it should be... But, if you go to properties, and go to the layout tab, then change *both* the horizontal buffer size and the the horizontal window size, it works fine. It's just buried on the third tab of the not-very-obvious properties window -- don't confuse it with the buffer size setting on the first tab, as this is unrelated.

Now, why in the name of god they don't just let you resize it with the mouse like every other Windows window, and every other terminal emulator like kterm/gterm... I have no god damned idea. But, it is there, pointlessly buried. Third tab of the non-obvious properties window, where you have to change two different settings by hand. People keep asking me why I don't prefer Windows. They keep insisting, "Isn't Windows easier to use?" Egad.

Re:can you?

[Anonymous Coward]

Another nifty feature Linux/Unix people may not know about cmd.exe is autocomplete. For example, to use it, type: cd c:\docu and hit [tab] to fill out the rest of "C:\Documents and Settings".

Re:can you?

[Library Spoff]

Not much, it's a built in flight sim.
You can get similair functionality in Linux by installing FlightGear...

Text

[pete-classic]

Contrary to cmd.exe and Unix/Linux shells it operates on objects, not text when passing data between scripts and executables.

Why would you want to use an arbitrary, difficult to debug format like text when you could use .NET objects?!

-Peter

Re:Text

[cp.tar]

Currently reading: CLASH - Common Lisp As SHell.

Objects? We don't need no stinkin' objects!

Re:Text

[Philip K Dickhead]

"...Riotous!"
"...outlandish... offbeat and hilarious!"
"If you read only one comment this year, read this!"

Re:Text

[projecto2501]

Our cheif weapon is strings, strings and objects. Our TWO weapons are strings, objects, and JIT bite code.

"Amongst the vast array of .NET objects is the ever popular System.String,....."

Nobody expects the command line!

Is that like PowerGlove?

[Orrin Bloquy]

If so, sign me and Fred Savage up!

Re:The relevant quote...

[bod1988]

I belive they have. It's called linux.

See! they admitted it!

[brightloudnoise]

Windows PowerS hell

I knew it all along!

Re:See! they admitted it!

[Anonymous Coward]

If that was true, hell would be freezing over constantly and therefore we'd all be getting laid on a daily basis.

Clippy?

[MightyMait]

What I want to know: does it come with a text version of Clippy?

Good name change!

[m4c north]

Monad...

Is that like a gonad, but you only have one? And I thought eunuchs had it tough!

Re:On XBox Power platform? Passing Text Arrays?

[weapon]

>They will probably have to call it Power Microsoft Shell.

Power Microsoft Shell - PMS, would this be a description of the shell's behavior?

Re:How long will it take for them to create a CPAN

[ichigo 2.0]

Except the spokes are perpendicular to the old ones, the tires are on the inside and the rubber melts at high speeds.

Re:i don't get it.

[Tumbleweed]

On Windows systems, you pay for everything. Everything. Except IE.

I guarantee you, I've paid and paid for IE.

And all I got was this lousy CSS support. *sigh*

The most important question

[Antimatter3009]

Can I use ls to get a file listing yet?

Why?!?

[A nonymous Coward]

Why does the entire world have to look like a scripting language from an OS designed four decades ago?

Wheels -- thousands of years old. Still work.

Fire -- hundres of thousands of years under human control -- still works.

And you -- still typing after all these years, over a hundred now, since the invention of the keyboard. Still using fonts, for pete's sake, on graphical displays, invented before UNIX, along with mice, still using silicon (60 years old) and rust (thousands of years old) and electricity, back before Mr Franklin's experiments with kites 250 years ago, still using bits for storage as characters, processed by computer instructions, over 50 years old. Why haven't you graduated to something modern?