"Joe"  wrote

| The more sophisticated Windows users think PowerShell is wonderful
| because it give them access to a lot of stuff the GUI doesn't touch,
| including a lot of things that *should* be in management GUIs e.g.
| finding mailbox sizes in the last version of Exchange that I had
| dealings with. That shouldn't be a command-line-only job, given what
| else the GUI does cover.
|
| But it's *Windows* stuff. *nix has always had a shell (indeed many) to
| reach the command-line APIs of various daemons and applications.

  I thought they ported it to Linux. At any rate, that's why
they produced it in the first place. It's superfluous, poorly
designed crap that's not dependably on all systems and has
become a venue for attacks. The only reason they
came out with it was to provide something for Linux
sever admins that would look familiar. As far as I'm concerned,
Linux can have it. Windows script with COM is far more
extensive and adaptable.

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