PowerShell Succinctly, Syncfusion

Windows PowerShell might be a well-known scripting language for some system administrators, who see it as an evolution of the former Windows command-line shell and use it for their daily systems management activities, but that isn’t the prevailing opinion.

PowerShell brought several new concepts like object-oriented pipelines, which revolutionized the way users invoke commands and create scripts, but most developers and systems administrators fear this language and continue to avoid it. Although PowerShell is different for many developers, you will see in this book that it offers a number of advantages.

How PowerShell is different

PowerShell opens up a new world of opportunities compared to other command-line shell scripts, starting with the way the shell interprets the commands you use. In traditional command-line shells, commands are interpreted as plain text and don’t allow any kind of interaction. PowerShell interprets objects with methods and attributes that have access to much of the .NET framework, resulting in a more powerful programming model.