Reply to post: Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell

W.S.Gosset

Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

> to allow constructs like "for each"

Actually, this is shell's behaviour for "for": it just iterates thru the defined list.

You can create a numeric progression list via shell expansion if you want the original "for", but I don't think I've ever needed to do that for shell tasks.

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