PowerShell NOT inferior to Cygwin

I like powershell a lot, and I suspect that it was familiarity with Unix that drove me back to Cygwin. I was truly inspired by the Channel9 interview that Jeffrey Snover gave. I had a few problems with the way that Cygwin handled NT file security settings, that caused me no end of grief. So I was more than happy to take powershell for a spin.  I think the idea of having an object pipeline is serendipitous, and I particularly like the fact that I am dealing with the .NET framework. I’ve been working with that for years so I don’t have a huge learning curve to ascend in that regard.

Funnily enough, the reason I struggled is apropos to what I was discussing in the original post - a relative lack of documentation. I like to be able to read around a topic. To get a lot of people’s ideas. I initially found it hard to get started - I didn’t have a sense, at times, of the capabilities of powershell, and where I should turn to for things that I knew how to do in bash. I was tryinig out the beta version of monad which was a while back, so things may have changed. I have to try again.

Another reason why I opted to go back to cygwin - I get pretty much all of the mainstream Gnu utilities for free. It didn’t occur to me that with a little fiddling I could have the best of both worlds by accessing Cygwin from within powershell. I haven’t tried it yet, but once I have, I shall report back with instructions.