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10 cool things you can do with Windows PowerShell

On #9, the date format for the third example should be:

?$(Get-Date -format o) Start logging? 2008-02-05T21:15:13.0368750-05:00

Looks good for Windows but I wish Microsoft would get with the game and create an open solution you could use on any platform. (Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix --etc.)

other platforms are already a "powershell".

But they have gotten with the game. A cross platform management console would lessen the percieved switching costs of customers exercising free will to look at other solutions.

Unfortunately, MS has baught and repainted the stadium then convinced everyone that it's always been the home team living there.

We'll just have to wait until someone truly innovative reverse engineers the powershell protocol so we can finally manage Windows servers from any client workstation (unless you currently count rDesktop).

for a bash equivalent for windows

wow very cool

Jodi thanks win powersell additional information/R??#&di p??l/

Windows command line, even with PowerShell, doesn't even come close to the efficiency and power of UNIX/Linux shell commands. As a Windows Server admin and a UNIX server admin I am qualified to make that statement. Looking at the above commands for PowerShell, the syntax seems a little too clunky. Similar UNIX commands are much more streamlined.

It's funny that after all these years the Windows OS is starting to incorporate Unix like commands that have existed since the late 1970's. I am glad the Microsoft is more fully embracing the power/efficiency of command driven interaction.

Now if only PowerShell had a command equivalent to the power of "grep". I am not an experienced PowerShell user so if one exists please prove me wrong...

The powershell version of grep is Select-String. Easily aliased to grep, if you prefer.

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/03/23/select-string-and-grep.aspx

Do what I did, download and install UnixUtils. It includes grep plus many other common unix utilities and they run as native Win32's do you don't have to install Cygwin first.

great tips yar ! thnks 4 them n u

Well, what can I say. I am very happy reading this stuff. But what i want to know is, is there help for beginners about PowerShell out there.