PowerShell on Linux? A primer on Object-Shells
In the previous post, Install PowerShell on Fedora Linux, we went through different ways to install PowerShell on Fedora Linux and explained the basics of PowerShell. This post gives you an overview of PowerShell and a comparison to POSIX-compliant shells.
Most commands in traditional POSIX shells, like the Bourne Again Shell (BASH), are heavily abbreviated and often require memorizing.
Commands like awk, ps, top or even ls do not communicate what they do with their name. Only when one already does know what they do, do the names start to make sense. Once I know that ls lists files the abbreviation makes sense.
In PowerShell on the other hand, commands are perfectly self-descriptive. They accomplish this by following a strict naming convention.
Commands in PowerShell are called “cmdlets” (pronounced commandlets). These always follow the scheme of Verb-Noun.
