Do you know Korn and are thinking about learning Powershell?
Look at this:
function What-am-I {
echo “Korn or powershell?”
}
what-am-i
echo $?
Looks like Korn, but it also looks like Powershell.
In actual fact, it executes in both Korn shell and Powershell.
There’s a slight difference in the output from “$?” because Powershell will output “True” and Korn will output “0”.
Not much in it really. That is just another reason Linux people are feeling the Microsoft love right now.
Plus, as recently highlighted by a Microsoft blog post, the Azure CLI known as “az” which allows you to interact with Azure APIs and functions, will now also be the name of the new Powershell module used to perform the same operations and replacing “AzureRM”.
It makes sense for Microsoft to harmonise the two names.
It could save them an awful lot of documentation because currently they have to write examples for both “az” CLI and Powershell cmdlets for each new Azure feature/function.
