Powershell/Monad Version 1.0 is finally out
More than two years ago I wrote about a neat little microsoft project called Monad which caught my eye. The project boasted of doing something which I've never seen anyone else do before. They created an object oriented shell interface.
One of the examples I use to explain is that unlike unix flavor of "ps" which allows listing of fields you like or not using optional command line parameters, in Monad, you can parse the output of "ps" (aka get-process) and manipulate the objects returned to print any format you want by inspecting the object. All unix admins know how to use "cut" "grep" and "awk" for different reasons, but in a true monad shell environments where every command you type is a monad commandlet, you won't have to use the traditional string based tools anymore.
Whats interesting is that unlike in Unix/other_shells, you can pipe the output of ps command in monad and throw it on to an XLS sheet with a pie chart attached. Neat !!
Microsoft has finally released the official 1.0 version of this product (just in time for the Vista release) and its now being called Powershell. Even though the version I installed was on my XP box, it supports other flavors of Windows as well. Watch out for this blog for more of Powershell as I'm for sure going to use it.
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One of the examples I use to explain is that unlike unix flavor of "ps" which allows listing of fields you like or not using optional command line parameters, in Monad, you can parse the output of "ps" (aka get-process) and manipulate the objects returned to print any format you want by inspecting the object. All unix admins know how to use "cut" "grep" and "awk" for different reasons, but in a true monad shell environments where every command you type is a monad commandlet, you won't have to use the traditional string based tools anymore.
Whats interesting is that unlike in Unix/other_shells, you can pipe the output of ps command in monad and throw it on to an XLS sheet with a pie chart attached. Neat !!
Microsoft has finally released the official 1.0 version of this product (just in time for the Vista release) and its now being called Powershell. Even though the version I installed was on my XP box, it supports other flavors of Windows as well. Watch out for this blog for more of Powershell as I'm for sure going to use it.
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