Trying to build a Uptime.exe alternative via native windows

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Re: Trying to build a Uptime.exe alternative via native windows

#31 Post by siberia-man » 07 Aug 2019 12:14

Eureka! wrote:
07 Aug 2019 09:02
Why would anyone try to accomplish this in CMD these days, when there is PowerShell?
Not all systems have powershell by default. A batch syntax is simpler and more familiar to most people. The batch scripting is funnier than powershell.

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Re: Trying to build a Uptime.exe alternative via native windows

#32 Post by Eureka! » 11 Aug 2019 07:55

siberia-man wrote:
07 Aug 2019 12:14
Not all systems have powershell by default.
You are right. I subtitled "remote machines" in my head as servers, but that isn't necessarily the case (servers without PowerShell are very hard to come by)
A batch syntax is simpler and more familiar to most people. The batch scripting is funnier than powershell.
True that. I like the challenges that a limited toolset bring ("In der Berschraenkung zeigt sich der Meister" ((von) Goethe)).
PowerShell is almost too easy; everyone and their mother can do that ..

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