Linux Shell Debates or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love PowerShell
summary
Claims that PowerShell passes rich .NET objects across the pipeline instead of byte streams, demos importing CSV to objects (no text parsing) and contrasts with bash/grep/awk. Shows POSIX quirks—dash errors on [[ ... ]], /bin/sh symlinked to bash on some distros. Builds Crescendo proxy functions for ls, pacman and Crescendo proxy for systemctl, uses regex (with ChatGPT help) to parse text into PS objects; systemctl proxy works, pacman proxy stalls due to suppressed stdout.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Linux shell debates
- 3:30Streaming versus pipelines
- 12:04POSIX compliance
- 20:34Python in shells
- 24:49PowerShell Crescendo
- 36:37Shell choice guide
- 38:00Closing remarks
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