It is really weird, yeah. Half the commands are actual sentences. Tbf most of the common ones have shorter aliases (test-netconnection -> tnc, clear-itemproperty -> clp, get-content -> cat, etc).
The killer feature of PowerShell imo is the -WhatIf flag. I wish all shells had something like that, it’s fantastic for testing scripts without risk of damaging anything.
I love its Verb-Noun system and verbose parameter names. It’s easy to understand what command or parameter does just by the name. Get-MailboxPermission probably retrieves mailbox permissions, Stop-Process stops process, Remove-ADUser deletes AD user etc. If there would be no auto complete I might find it irritating, but once you get a hang of it, it’s a breeze.
I hate powershell so much
Why does it have to be so verbose
It is really weird, yeah. Half the commands are actual sentences. Tbf most of the common ones have shorter aliases (test-netconnection -> tnc, clear-itemproperty -> clp, get-content -> cat, etc).
The killer feature of PowerShell imo is the -WhatIf flag. I wish all shells had something like that, it’s fantastic for testing scripts without risk of damaging anything.
I love its Verb-Noun system and verbose parameter names. It’s easy to understand what command or parameter does just by the name. Get-MailboxPermission probably retrieves mailbox permissions, Stop-Process stops process, Remove-ADUser deletes AD user etc. If there would be no auto complete I might find it irritating, but once you get a hang of it, it’s a breeze.