If you just want the dd command it is in the the GNU port of Unix utils UnxUtils, and in Microsoft Unix toolkit.
Also to be wrong again I would have to be wrong twice, in your view I can only see how I can have been wrong once, in my assumption of your intentions.
If you want to flash you burners in Linux from the CLI buy a NEC (Optiarc now) drive you can flash in Linux, OS X etc.
I am sure you could find other supported drives if you tried.
If your read about Powershell you will find it does do 'useful pipes', but surprise, surprise its been developed by Microsoft to administer Windows not Linux, so will be of little use to you.
Bash and other shells are designed for and best on Linux, they are great and powerful and we use them on all are Linux servers. Shells such as this could be ported but without the OS integration they would be next to useless, I have to use Windows to manage 1000+ AD users and computers, I can do that with powershell, not with Cygwin shells etc. I even use it to manage Linux servers via piping from powershell via SSH!
You can hate Microsoft and GUI's all you like but powershell is one of the few good things microsoft has brought to its OS, and the more administrator that use, the easier it will be for them to use and move to Linux, so it has its good points!.
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It can do lots of things, if you want you could read about it and find out, but I doubt you do.
I thought you were asking a honest question, rather than trying to start a my 'whatever' is better rant.
Sorry
G
I have to manage a Windows domain of a 1000+ users and Powershell (yes crap name) allows me to do stuff that you used to only easily do with expensive third party stuff quickly in a few lines.
The only other choice to do something similar on Windows is VB script which I find painful at best.
It may not be the best Shell ever but at the moment its the best Windows integrated shell with access to.Net, WMI etc. and it beats Active Directory administration through a GUI any day.
The book is great by the way, and his blog has loads of useful tips too.
Anybody who is actually going to try it, will find the powershell community extension very useful.
G
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If you just want the dd command it is in the the GNU port of Unix utils UnxUtils, and in Microsoft Unix toolkit.
Also to be wrong again I would have to be wrong twice, in your view I can only see how I can have been wrong once, in my assumption of your intentions.
If you want to flash you burners in Linux from the CLI buy a NEC (Optiarc now) drive you can flash in Linux, OS X etc.
I am sure you could find other supported drives if you tried.
If your read about Powershell you will find it does do 'useful pipes', but surprise, surprise its been developed by Microsoft to administer Windows not Linux, so will be of little use to you.
Bash and other shells are designed for and best on Linux, they are great and powerful and we use them on all are Linux servers.
Shells such as this could be ported but without the OS integration they would be next to useless, I have to use Windows to manage 1000+ AD users and computers, I can do that with powershell, not with Cygwin shells etc. I even use it to manage Linux servers via piping from powershell via SSH!
You can hate Microsoft and GUI's all you like but powershell is one of the few good things microsoft has brought to its OS, and the more administrator that use, the easier it will be for them to use and move to Linux, so it has its good points!.
G
It can do lots of things, if you want you could read about it and find out, but I doubt you do.
I thought you were asking a honest question, rather than trying to start a my 'whatever' is better rant.
Sorry
G
Yes you can, you set it in your Powershell profile, look for the function prompt.
[datetime]::now.ToLongTimeString() give current time btw.
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I have to manage a Windows domain of a 1000+ users and Powershell (yes crap name) allows me to do stuff that you used to only easily do with expensive third party stuff quickly in a few lines. .Net, WMI etc. and it beats Active Directory administration through a GUI any day.
The only other choice to do something similar on Windows is VB script which I find painful at best. It may not be the best Shell ever but at the moment its the best Windows integrated shell with access to
The book is great by the way, and his blog has loads of useful tips too.
Anybody who is actually going to try it, will find the powershell community extension very useful. G