Ben Cotton

Great article! There were so many times in my sysadmin days when scripting would have been a lot easier if I had a richer data method than strings of text (although strings of text have some advantages, too). But since most *nix commands only or mostly operate on strings of text, what's the advantage to using PowerShell over Python, Ruby, etc?

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