Recently, my feelings towards PowerShell have been somewhat ambivalent. There are some seriously good ideas in the PowerShell design. I really want to like it, it’s just that it makes it very hard sometimes… Let’s just say you have the simple task to create a file that contains a list of all files in a specific directory – recursively of course. You’ll probably start with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet (aka “ls”) which gives you the files in the current directory.
$ Get-ChildItem