---
title: "PowerShell: the object-oriented shell you didn’t know you needed"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/powershell-the-object-oriented-shell-you-didn-t-know-you-needed-jbm4kjumc
source_url: https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2024/04/29/powershell-the-object-oriented-shell-you-didnt-know-you-needed/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-04-29T22:01:57.191Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z
tags: ["windows", ".net", "git", "shell", "powershell"]
reading_time: 13
upvotes: 16
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# PowerShell: the object-oriented shell you didn’t know you needed

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 13 min read · 16 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Learn about PowerShell, an object-oriented shell and scripting language from Microsoft that is powerful, versatile, and has unique features compared to standard Unix shells. Topics covered include differences between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core, working with files and directories, finding duplicates, using .NET classes and COM objects, launching Internet Explorer, and customizing the PowerShell prompt.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2024/04/29/powershell-the-object-oriented-shell-you-didnt-know-you-needed/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@dragonsong3k** · 1 upvotes

> Love me some PowerShell. I call it C# Lite. You can also use .NET library objects directly in PowerShell.

**@f4nt0** · 0 upvotes

> Thank you só much for This post! Not because I like powershell but your article use Black background, leaving daily.dev tô a white page hurt my eyes.

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