PowerShell now available for macOS and Linux

[Arthur]

Download the alpha version from here if you want to give it a try.

 

Source: Microsoft (via Ars Technica)

 

Microsoft today released its PowerShell scripting language and command-line shell as open source. The project joins .NET and the Chakra JavaScript engine as an MIT-licensed open source project hosted on GitHub.

 

Alpha version prebuilt packages of the open source version are available for CentOS, Ubuntu, and OS X, in addition, of course, to Windows. Additional platforms are promised in the future.

 

Announcing the release, Microsoft's Jeffrey Snover described the impetus for the move: customers liked the use of PowerShell for management, remote control, and configuration but didn't like that it was Windows-only. To address this concern, Microsoft first had to bring .NET, and then PowerShell itself, to Linux and other platforms. Snover says that PowerShell will be extended so that remote scripting can natively use ssh as its transport instead of Windows remoting.

 

Longer term, this move should mean that Windows' and Azure's management tools such as Operations Management Suite and Desired State Configuration will have much greater reach, allowing a common set of tools and skills to reach a far greater range of systems.

[Norphy]

Bash on Windows. PowerShell on *nix. The end of times are coming

[Arthur]

The end of times are coming

Best avoid running PowerShell on Linux in Bash on Windows then!

[Norphy]

 

I heard you like shells so I put a shell on your shell so you can shell while you're shelling

[DJ-1701]

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I heard you like shells so I put a shell on your shell so you can shell while you're shelling

 

Great, does that mean I can sell C shells by the sea shore?

[Norphy]

Just installed the alpha on my Macbook... you need to make sure that you have a terminal window with a dark background because the text colour they use is bright yellow!