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Microsoft donates over $25,000 to support OpenSSH

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Barrel scraping (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-07-10 15:01 (#DXT1)

Can anything save powershell from the debarcle it is right now v4? Powershell does not compare to the nix shell (of any flavour).

Re: Barrel scraping (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-07-11 22:25 (#E1J8)

Unfortunately, nobody has really ported any *nix shell to Windows for use there, so there's no comparison. Before anybody mentions Cygwin, go start bash and run "edit", ftp, or any other interactive Windows CLI command... Doesn't work, does it?

Re: Barrel scraping (Score: 2, Informative)

by pete@pipedot.org on 2015-07-12 08:51 (#E2FG)

of course i went to try this - and was surprised to find that 'edit' was only for 16 & 32 bit systems. microsoft's professional recommendation is to use notepad; i guess that probably sums up the state of affairs in microsoft's "give a s***" dept. 'Why CLI when you can GUI?' :/

Re: Barrel scraping (Score: 2, Interesting)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-07-12 21:43 (#E3VG)

That's just one more area where Microsoft is acting schizophrenic. Even while edit was going away, they added a command-line registry editor, exchange management console, among other utilities.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-edit-the-windows-registry-without-opening-regedit-exe

If you think editing the registry by command-line sounds miserable, you're underestimating. Imagine editing the world's largest text file with "ex", and you're in the ballpark.

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