Introducing PowerShell (MSH) - Windows answers to linux shell?

[Guest Pavs 2007]

PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Framework and replaces the old

process of using text to pass data like the current CMD shell. PS is a

scriptable language that provides an alternative to the manual changes

you make through a GUI. It is more powerful than Perl or WSH, although

those two technologies can help with automating a lot of tasks. Let's

look at what PS is and is not and hopefully it will help clear things

up a bit.

 

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