The very best first feature to learn is the "foreach" command. It elegantly
solves the icky, age old, problem in DOS batch of reading in a list of
values from a file and doing something with them. This alone sold me
completely on WPS.
For instance, here is and actual script I used to push an in
Alan,
I have used WPS 1.0 for some time at work to script software installs, etc.
It is very powerful and gives full .NET visibility to "DOS" level scripts.
In fact, it is a plausible replacement for VB for most administrative
scripting work in the Windows environment.
Some good resources:
The He
A recent windows update delivered the Windows Power Shell to my
desktop.
I'd heard of this but never used it till now. I've only started
playing with it but
it is essentially DOS on steroids. It brings Windows users a shell
that seems
to be very close to Unix shells like Bash in power and flex
