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    Thanks for your answer. I think I'm going to go ahead and learn PowerShell. It looks powerful from what I've seen so far, and I'll be able to write more useful scripts with it at work. Commented Feb 23, 2009 at 0:20
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    @Jeffrey: is there a chance for a better terminal for Windows? Powershell is a powerful scripting language, but the fact it runs in cmd.exe makes it much more convenient in the interactive mode Commented Jul 7, 2010 at 10:23
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    This "not constructive" question generated the best insight I've seen into the whole "on Unix everything is a file" mantra, and why Windows is different. Maybe StackOverflow would be better served closing not constructive discussions? Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 14:51
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    @sumek - Give ConEmu a try; I've been using it for a few weeks and it's pretty sweet: hanselman.com/blog/… Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 17:43
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    Heads up: powershell doesn't like piping binary data. So beware when you're calling your trusty Unix tools, just don't do stuff like tar -c . | gzip > package.tar.gz directly in PowerShell, or you'll suffer. See brianreiter.org/2010/01/29/… Commented Oct 28, 2013 at 4:24