homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/
tagline: |
PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework.
-description: |
- PowerShell is the default shell on Windows 10. Since `curl.exe | powershell` is effectively as convenient as `curl | bash` for users, and since Windows 10 also includes tar, curl.exe, and ssh, among others, you can use fairly simple PowerShell to make a variety of tasks simple for Windows developers.
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+> The core benefit of running `pwsh` on Mac or Linux is that you get a way to
+> debug Windows 10 scripts without having to boot up Windows 10.
+
+For example, if you want to create a `curl.exe -A "windows" | powershell` script
+for Windows 10 (as we do), it's helpful to be able to do some level of debugging
+on other platforms.
+
+<!--
For example, if you wanted to install Node.js with powershell and
webinstall.dev, you can:
```cmd
curl.exe -s -A "MS" https://webinstall.dev/node@lts | powershell
```
+-->
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