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Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7
Microsoft has just announced PowerShell 7, a new major release that comes only a few days after the company originally introduced version 6.2
And while it naturally makes more sense for the company to roll out PowerShell 6.3 rather than a whole new version 7.0, the company explains in a blog post that it's all as part of the efforts to align the versions of all platforms.
Steve Lee, Principal Software Engineer Manager, PowerShell, explains that Microsoft noticed a growing usage pattern on Linux, but not on Windows.
"Windows usage has not been growing as significantly, surprising given that PowerShell was popularized on the Windows platform," Lee explains. [...] The next version of PowerShell will thus be available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the company explains it'll be available with LTS (Long Term Servicing) and non-LTS plans.
Also at ZDNet.
Previously: MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheFool on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:14PM
As a general-purpose shell, I think I'd give it a pass. But it's well suited to performing Windows-related tasks. I use it quite a bit when I'm working on things there.
Need to write some tests for your .NET or COM+ application (yes, some of us still write these)? Just suck the interface into your script, and now you can poke at it to your heart's content. Want to poke at a driver and look at the WMI data coming out the side? Just a bit of script. Want to spin up a test VM, then execute all those commands on the guest? Sure, just a few more lines of script.
And there's also the sysadmin side of it, because MS likes to shuffle the GUI around a lot but the commands will stay the same. But I tend not to use it much for that.
So yeah, good if you're running pretty close to "Windows" and not doing generic things like manipulating files. Definitely worth learning in that case. And it's certainly better than cmd.exe, which is your other out-of-the-box option.