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I’ve been experimenting with Windows Powershell (formerly known as Monad or MSH) recently. It’s currently in version 1.0, Release Candidate 2 (RC2), so it’s pretty much ready. Download it here to give it a try. I’ve struggled with a few aspects of it, but it’s very powerful and I’ve already started customizing it to help out with my day-to-day work.

If you’re like me, you’ve heard of how great the Linux/Unix shells (like Bash) are, but are pretty much just familiar with the old DOS command prompt. This will blow your socks off. There was just a *pop* and a realization that, ohhhh, so this is what a Shell is.

There’s a great introduction to Powershell (then MSH) at ArsTechnica that I highly recommend. But just to give you a tease, here is a one-line bit of code that will tell you how many pages Google has indexed for a specific site (I’ve used ArsTechnica again, you can see the reference in the url bit):

 
That’s really sweet.

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