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1. Just no. Unless you are some sort of Windows shop.


Pwsh scripts are portable across mac, linux and windows with arguably less headache than bash. Its actually really nice. You should try it.

If you don't like it, you can get bash to work on windows anyway.


If you're building for Windows, then bash is "just no", so it's either cmd/.bat, or pwsh/.ps. <shrugs>


All my windows work / ci runs still use bash.


I develop on Windows. And I use bash and (gnu) make - combination that cannot be beat, in my experience.


That’s the only reason for sure.


I mean, if you're a Windows shop you really should be using powershell.


I've never been a fan of PowerShell. I work across Windows and Linux on .NET and Nuke has become my go to tool for this.


you should try it, powershell isnt just 'type insanely long phrases', there are aliases for it




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