Techno Babble

Microsoft PowerShell is a command-line environment for Windows and is available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista (links below)

• Windows XP x86
• Windows XP x64
• Windows Server 2003 x86
• Windows Server 2003 x64
• Windows Vista x86
• Windows Vista x64

A pre-requisite is the .NET Framework Version 2.0

There is a free eBook that introduces PowerShell scripting at

http://download.microsoft.com/…/Windows Powershell – EN.zip

(In addition to scripting, developers can create new commands for PowerShell using C# or VB. The Windows SDK contains everything you need to start developing commands.)

Full documentation for PowerShell is available from MSDN ( the Microsoft Developer Network) at

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa139691.aspx

courtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash

Bash is a Unix shell written for the GNU Project. The name of the actual executable is bash. Its name is an acronym for Bourne-again shell, a pun (’Bourne again’ / ‘born again’) on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978. Bash was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. In 1990 Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer.