On Sat, 6/28/2025 11:13 PM, micky wrote:
Can PowerShell do everything CMD can do?
Can every command that runs in CMD also run in Powershell?
Was this just as true in win10 as in win11, and vice versa?
I've googled and the articles talk about differences, but not about similarities.
https://ss64.com/ps/
# The Command Prompt lists, always have bizarre formatting.
https://www.lifewire.com/list-of-command-prompt-commands-4092302
Nothing says, that shells need to have exactly the same objectives.
Some shells are written by people with a degree in Language Design.
Other shells are written as hacks.
when I have seen cheat sheets, with five columns for the
five different shells, and what the equivalent command is,
there are always "holes" in the cheat sheet. Some shell
not having a direct equivalent to the others.
One thing you should know, is language designers *never* start
with an objective of xerox copying someone elses work. They
show their notion of "Taste" by missing out items they don't like.
If a construct is ugly, they don't have to copy it and make
a fake one (which is also ugly). And normally, if you asked
the designer why "X is missing", the designer will tell you
exactly how ugly the thing you want is.
They don't always feel a responsibility to support direct
one-to-one transcoding.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell
Paradigm: Imperative, pipeline, object-oriented, functional and reflective
That one line tells you exactly what you need to know.
When they drink tea, their pinky finger rises into the air.
Given enough time, they will make cmdlets for everything.
Or, the staff will be shackled together, and work in
the AI salt mines instead :-)
Paul
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