[HN Gopher] Two Months with Powershell on a Unix ___________________________________________________________________ Two Months with Powershell on a Unix Author : joejag Score : 18 points Date : 2020-04-22 10:48 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (code.joejag.com) (TXT) w3m dump (code.joejag.com) | dijit wrote: | Dude has more patience than me. | | I tried running powershell on linux a few times, and every single | time the second command I run is not supported on linux. | | I don't even remember what the commands were, PSremoting was one | for sure and I think another was Invoke-WebRequest. | | Powershell on linux is a nice idea but in the current form it is | in name only, as nearly nothing works. | vips7L wrote: | Invoke-WebRequest most certainly runs on linux. | m0xte wrote: | I'm not sure I could cope with that. I have enough problems | with it on windows. Literally every corner you turn something | punches you in the balls or turns to dust in your hands. It's | one of the most frustrating things I've ever used and I avoid | it where I can. | | I would not invite it onto a *nix machine voluntarily where | there are established patterns and solutions which have matured | over the space of 40 odd years now. | larntz wrote: | I use powershell on linux occasionally. Primarily with the | azure and powercli modules. For doing vmware and azure stuff I | can't think of anything that hasn't worked. | | If you want to do anything that would be windows only then | you're right, it probably won't work. | | That said, I usually have a tmux window ssh'd into a windows | machine for powershell. It would be nice to be able to manage | ad and exchange from a linux machine with powershell. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-23 23:00 UTC)