PowerShell

PowerShell looks like a great scripting language but is incredibly verbose for a shell. (The solution is to use autocomplete which works I guess.)

• Removing a file:

  • cmd: del

  • sh: rm

  • PowerShell: Remove-Item -Path <path>

• Printing environment variables:

  • cmd: set

  • sh: printenv

  • PowerShell Get-Item env:

• Deleting a directory:

  • cmd: rmdir /S /Q <dir>

  • sh: rm -rf <dir>

  • PowerShell: Remove-Item -Path <path> -Recurse