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Yep, it has some interesting features/capabilities but the syntax is soooo baroque. All I want out of shell is a means to get boring shit done without having to think about it too much. At this point, Cygwin is STILL the way to go on windows and it would take A LOT of simplification to make powershell even competitive on windows, let alone competitive on *-nix platforms with a plain old shell like bash.


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