On 18/05/2012 20:41, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Command shells have always been a train wreck on Windows, as far as I
can remember. I haven't used Windows in any serious way for more than a
decade now, so I can't speak for later versions of Windows, but I
suspect things haven't changed much.
This is one of those things that makes Windows (l)users wonder how we
Unix people can stand using the shell all day -- their idea of shell is
the DOS prompt (a veritable train wreck of train wrecks). If only they
knew what a *real* shell can do. ;-)
T
Powershell is actually very good, despite some major WTFs when
programming in it. It's massively better than bash programming for instance.
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