PowerShell vs CMD - what's the real difference?

speed

 

Powershell is just CMD Plus.

 

Some cmd functions got removed and only works with PS. When i compiled 1607 LTSB with NTLite i checked remove PS thinking cmd is still viable, months later "aw crap" was my respond to that mistake.

Edit: I remember bit was also for security reasons. I don't remember exactly but was something about PS scripts is easier to exploit and execute than cmd bat. Not that i have solid information but i think PS security should be more steady these days.

 

Powershell is much more powerful than cmd. Learn how to use it.

 

Unless you're someone like me who already knows CMD and powershell offers nothing that I need. If I had a career in programming, sure powershell would be good to know. But why write a script in powershell if you can do the same with CMD and it'll run faster? So it really needs to be decided on a case by case basis. Not only is powershell much more powerful, it's much more slower.

 

Definitely, but I just can't seem to motivate on that. Good old cmd has been around since the mountains, hard to give up what you're used to.

 

Powershell lets you use wild cards easily in some instances such as this

Code:

powershell -command "get-childitem -path C:\windows\winsxs -include *defender* -recurse | remove-item -recurse -force -confirm:$false"

 

There are far too may differences to post here, but in short the major difference is PowerShell is built on .NET and thus can take any Windows task and add automation and logic to it. This is eons beyond what cmd (command-line) can do.

PowerShell offers complete automation, data manipulation, full administrative control of Exchange, Active Directory, Citrix, etc. locally and across networks, code-wrapping, namespace and kernal access and control, etc.

PowerShell is heavily driven on internal error handling which can negligibly affect processing speed. Moreover, each time PowerShell is loaded, it automatically loads all cmdlets and modules into the active session.

The list goes on.

 

And a liability full of vulnerabilities that gives leverage to bad actors aka malware

 

According to the most recent white-papers on malware attacks, over 60% occurred by running the PowerShell script/commands from cmd, not from a PowerShell shell.

 

The difference is like Wordpad & Word.

 

anyone who does not know the difference does not even have to know it

 

I personally like and use tccle from JPSoft. I have been using their command shell since the days of 4dos. My day job is supporting technical applications under unix, but I am doing more support these days of Windows applications, so I have been learning Powershell. It is indeed a very powerful tool, and in some ways a more useful scripting language under Windows than even Perl. I attempted to switch over and use powershell instead of tccle, but I ran into too many road blocks.

YMMV

 

Malware will always have a way to run, majority being batch files, vbs files and javascript.

 

I agree!!! TCC/LE is absolutely amazing, it deserves a lot more attention, I always thought Microsoft should have hired Rex Conn years and years and years ago!!
Nice to see another TCC/LE fan here...