On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Paul McNett <p...@ulmcnett.com> wrote: > On 9/14/11 1:21 PM, Ted Roche wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Paul McNett<p...@ulmcnett.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm betting that there will be a whole host of sysadmin functions you just >>> won't be >>> able to do nearly as effectively without the GUI. >> >> You'd be surprised. MS has made some advances in the past couple of >> years with PowerShell and some of the new commands available through >> the cmd shell. It is still not POSIX, though. > > Several things make the *nix shell so useful, but mostly it's that there are > hundreds > (thousands?) of shell utilities at your disposal that are designed to do > exactly one > thing very well. They accept, at a minimum, input on stdin and output, at a > minimum, > on stdout, allowing chaining of commands. > > The ability to write shell scripts in whatever language you want, invoking > other > scripts in whatever language they are written in also helps. > > For Microsoft to come close to this, they shouldn't be reinventing but > embracing and > extending (I thought they were supposed to be pretty good at that, after all). -------------------
Powershell allows someone to do a lot of that. I have started to gen reports from SQL data and present to Excel using just powershell. I have tapped into it just a smidgen so I am good with 1% at best. -- Stephen Russell Unified Health Services 60 Germantown Court Suite 220 Cordova, TN 38018 Telephone: 888.510.2667 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYJ=f3NgSPXMnsVb4ooJjZf5=EL0wPTW=OaQ=grkrdj...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
