Maybe. Right now bash under Windows can only do stuff inside Linux (outside
of the filesystems which are mounted). You still can't launch Windows
commands/applications from bash, which is pretty limiting. Most anything
folks do currently in PowerShell wouldn't be achievable in bash until that
barrier is crossed.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:02 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's going to be interesting to see what making Bash and other tools
> available on Windows is going to do to scripting there over the next
> several years.
>
> David Lang
>
> On Thu, 12 May 2016, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
>
> Yves,
>>
>> I teach a scripting/automation system admin course at a local college.
>> What I am finding is that the language used depends on:
>>
>> * if you primarily windows - powershell
>>
>> * if you are primarily linux then
>> ** if you are younger - python
>> ** if you are older - perl
>>
>> Being an older type who is cross platform I use mostly perl and
>> powershell with bash/awk for simple things on linux.  In my current class,
>> I have 2 students using python, 1 using a mix of bash and python, and 4
>> using powershell.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> ski
>>
>> On 05/12/2016 03:38 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A lot of people love to hate bash, and there are good reasons for it,
>>> but it
>>> seems that there isn't an obvious replacement for it.
>>>
>>> At some point it looked like perl was going to be it, then depending on
>>> the
>>> local preferences some shops use either python or ruby, heavy JVM shop
>>> often
>>> use groovy, while more and more shops now even use js or go...
>>>
>>> I find bash (or any other UNIX shell) much more natural for simple
>>> scripts, I
>>> don't even mind all gotchas (set -e, super weak typing, every var is
>>> gobal,
>>> etc..), but do hate how bad it is to manipulate data, and the difficulty
>>> to
>>> organize code.
>>>
>>> What do *you* use? Do you see any clear winner to replace it on the
>>> horizon?
>>>
>>>
>>
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