Linux

I've used powershell in previous jobs and if you learn it really well I cannot deny it is super powerful.

For a college project, a friend of mine somehow made a hexadecimal file dumper with it, with formatting and everything (think like what you would see in wireshark) in one, reasonably long, line of powershell.

However I'm just not a big fan of it personally for syntactical reasons (even with the syntax being super logical) and much prefer bash, or other unix-like native shells. I've been thinking about taking zsh for a spin recently to see what it's like.

I use powershell for some scripting. I've been using .net/powershell forever and I know it better than python. If bash can't handle it in a few lines, and I don't have to use python, I'll go powershell.

At work I use powershell to ssh into Linux boxes fairly regularly.

Only when I'm doing MS shit for work. Otherwise I find it kind of a pain. I get that some of it's ideas are nice, but functionally it doesn't actually do anything for me on unixy systems that bash doesn't so I don't. I'm not going to install it on all my servers so using it for scripting doesn't make sense and I do more Linux admin than MS.

I use both fish and zsh

somehow

I used to use fish but I'm learning Unix right now and am trying to use only defaults so I can learn freebsd the way it exists on a dvd, so right now I've been using the Bourne shell

I use fish

only for extraordinarily cursed situations where games need it in wine/proton

only when dealing with azure for work. otherwise bash/python work just fine and have for me for the last 30 odd years.

The idea of someone using powershell when you are on Linux is a form of self harm and you need to reach out as its clearly a cry for help.

At work we use it sometimes on Linux because we maintain a script that needs to work on multiple platforms, ps1 did that in this usecase better.

Came down to ps1 on Linux was better and more predictable than bash on windows.

Sadly.

Zsh is nice, particularly with a couple of plugins

I use it for some things. It's good for file batch processing, for example. I could probably do those things in python but I use C# and powershell at work so I know .net better.

Basically no one is using powershell on Linux. zsh is popular and i'm using fish.

Honest question: why?

I tried to use it for admin in a Windows environment, but half the modules I needed wouldn't work in Linux which made it pretty much useless.

i’m a big nushell fan.

i was once sitting where you are. when PowerShell was released on Linux i thought about switching and read the manual. i really liked some of the philosophy:

• descriptive names for commands. cat and ls have canonical short names to save disk space on the systems they were created for. this is no longer a constraint and aliasing a longer command name is better than “git gud n00b” when it comes to discoverability.
• structured data. “everything is a string” is great when programs play nice. it breaks apart when programs prefer human readable output or worse don’t provide structured output, like —format=json or whatever.
• modern control flow semantics. yes, pipes are great, let’s keep those, but why do i have to rtfm every time i want to bang out a simple script with an if-else control flow?

i looked around at a few solutions. xonsh uses Python. eshell is integrated into emacs and uses Elisp. i briefly tried to hack something together using Kotlin Script. and yeah, i tried PowerShell.

i settled on nushell not just because it fulfilled the above requirements, but also:

• simple data types. string, number, list, record, and table are about the only types you deal with.
• wide support for structured data. JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc have parsers built in. jq and other such tools are made irrelevant because you just load it into nushell query with a unified DSL using common syntax like select and where.

honestly, these are the killer features. there are so many more. context aware autocomplete, modules and overlays, super easy custom completions, extension functions (one of my favorites is git remote open), cross platform (if you’re forced to use Windows), plugins, and i can contribute since i do Rust development for work.

give PowerShell a shot, but i think nushell is the happy medium

zsh and oh-my-zsh :)

I use fish, I had to learn some new syntax and modify some functions since it's not POSIX-compliant, but it was pretty painless.

No.

I usually just use Bash; there’s a certain level of complexity where it begins to be more reasonable to just use Python.

It is not always Bash. Zsh comes as a default with some Arch based distros like Manjaro (xfce) and Garuda, plus Kali of course. But what is the point to use PowerShell in Linux? .. Azure, Exchange or Windows servers or something else I don't get?

I use PowerShell on Linux for work stuff. We maintain a set of Azure deployment scripts that were originally developed on PS 4 and 5 for Classic Azure. They’ve been migrated to AzureRM and now PS Core and Az. The scripts are now fully cross-platform.

We even use some PS remoting over SSH for remotely deploying stuff on Linux VMs where we run some bash commands for configuration.

I started with bash scripting years ago and never really used PS for Windows or exchange server admin. Just in the last decade for Azure stuff.

Sounds weird and horrible but it’s fine.

Bash is still home

I use Linux to get away from PowerShell 😂 I did try zsh though, it was nice, maybe give it a shot.

I use fish, but only interactively. Scripts are either in bash or Python depending om what I need.

What's wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured