Comment E6M2 Re: Barrel scraping

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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: 1)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-07-13 17:44 (#E6M2)

Well, I think its a little strange, but some Dos commands do work in cygwin like:

dir
ipconfig
regsvr32

others like ver do not work. Maybe some of those are built in and not separate executables?

I did at one point rely on Cygwin being able to create bash shell scripts that worked with windows executables, but that was years ago.

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