From c435c96dc9a62ab8907346409af265de36336315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AJ ONeal Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 06:41:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update pwsh description --- powershell/README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/powershell/README.md b/powershell/README.md index 9064f97..631b3a6 100644 --- a/powershell/README.md +++ b/powershell/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ 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. + 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. ---