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What is the Deal with PowerShell?

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What's the deal with PowerShell?

Here is the VBScript code to list services:

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service")

For Each objService in colServiceList

wscript.echo objService.name

Next

Here is the script to do the same thing in PowerShell: 

Get-Service

Which would you rather memorize?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2010
    A rather trivial example since sc query would do the same thing...

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2010
    sc query works but the results of that are quite static. Also gsv is even shorter!

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2010
    more importantly, the vbs script ejected a text stream, the powershell cmdlet actually returned an object, that happened to then be redendered to text for display purposes.   that's the real power, everything is an object.   :-)