My son wants me to teach him Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 14Jun2013 20:12, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> | [...] PowerShell has been
> | available as a download on WinXP and standard on Win7 [PS 3 is a
> | download for Win7, stock on real Win8].
> |       While I'm not fluent in it, there are some commands I've gotten
> | rather engrained...
> |
> | get-childitem -recurse -filter "*.ad*" | select-string -pattern "with"
> |
> | finds all the Ada (GNAT convention .ads/.adb) files containing "with"
> | statements. And pattern probably is a regex so I could fine tune it to
> | just the package withs by using a start of line marker...
>
> Hmm.
>
>   find . -name '*.ad*' | xargs grep with
>
> on almost any UNIX system. There's any number of variations on that
> depending on exactly what you want. I'm not going to get sucked
> into a UNIX/Windows bickerfest here, but your PowerShell example
> isn't winning me over. Sound like they reinvented the wheel. Again,
> years later:-(

As I understand it, PowerShell is intended primarily for automation
and scripting, not for interactive console use.