In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.
Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.
I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I’ll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D
No grep though as far as I could find… There was a similar cmdlet IIRC, but it was extremely limited and didn’t work well (this was years ago though)
The idea with powershell isn’t to be a text parser - so grep doesn’t really work. When you pass things through pipes, it’s a full object with multiple properties, and those you can filter with either simple expressions like
select-object [-property]or with more complex expressions: https://4sysops.com/archives/add-a-calculated-property-with-select-object-in-powershell/Select-StringIt’s really useful too. You can either pipe in text or for example Get-ChildItem a directory of files and it will parse them all. As usual it returns a helpful object with properties like line number.