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RE: A beginners guide to Powershell - Part 2 - Getting started with Powershell ISE
it seems silly question.... but, what the difference between powershell & command prompt ????
waiting your next tutorial........
Hi budinurdin,
thanks for the question, there are quite a few.
The baseline is:
You can do practically everything in powershell that you can already do in the command prompt, but better. In addition to being a shell powershell is also an object oriented scripting language, which makes output processing a lot easier and non localized. There are a lot more prebuilt commands and most Microsoft Products (and some other) have their own modules for administration.
Also, as you will see in the upcoming parts, powershell is a very elegant language which allows you to do fairly complex task with even a single line of code.
And a few dozen other things like builtin remoting, easy access to WMI, CIM, COM, multithreading etc.
It is too much for one post and a lot of things are out of scope for the beginners series but i hope that gives you an impression.
Regards