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Rook
Rook

Reputation: 62588

Future of cmd & powershell

We were just today discussing it, so I went on a little search but found nothing, zip, nada.

What is the future of ms's cmd shell? Do they intend to replace it completely with powershell in the future versions of windows, or just ship powershell as a parallel alternative ?

Does anyone have any links, articles, ... whatever regarding the above mentioned, cause I haven't been able to mind ms's stand regarding.

Upvotes: 22

Views: 2784

Answers (4)

fenster
fenster

Reputation: 1859

Imagine how many login scripts would break if they removed cmd.exe? Even if Powershell could run all cmd commands seamlessly (which it can't), login scripts running under Powershell would be far too slow during user login, as you would need to wait while .NET loaded up as well.

I once heard of a Citrix Admin who converted his login scripts to Powershell and then quickly realised that this was a bad idea.

Upvotes: 2

Spence
Spence

Reputation: 29352

Powershell is extremely good at doing complex tasks. However it is harder to learn and it runs much, much slower.

CMD will remain because you can run batch files and command line ops EXTREMELY quickly. Additionally it is extremely inexpensive to pop up a command shell and execute a command.

Upvotes: 5

Michael Burr
Michael Burr

Reputation: 340456

cmd.exe is not going anywhere (it's far too widely used).

However, I don't think you'll be seeing any enhancements to it (not that they've been burning through them anyway).

Upvotes: 7

George
George

Reputation: 15561

The latest build of Windows 7 has the two shells separately. I believe they won't replace the good-ol' cmd.exe. They need it mainly for compatibility reasons. A lot of programs call cmd /c, and replicating the exact same mechanism for powershell would be a duplication of effort. So, I suppose the cmd.exe remains.

Upvotes: 17

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