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? >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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