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> It's nice for shell scripts, but it makes day-to-day usage cumbersome.

How? `ps | kill node`. No pgrep hack because ps output a list of processes, not a line of text. As a Unix person Windows Terminal and pwsh is where I spend most of my day.



> In my experience Powershell is quite a bit more verbose than that.

This is common misconception. Posh allows both verbose and shorten styles via various mechanisms - command aliases, parameter abbreviations and aliases, proxys, pipeline settings for objects etc.


Valid. In my experience Powershell is quite a bit more verbose than that. If this manages to press both the "object oriented" and "concise" buttons then I'll be very happy to use it indeed.




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