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Shell is Only the Beginning
Personal blog · darkoperator.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Shell is Only the Beginning is a personal blog at darkoperator.com about security and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its discussion of PowerShell as more than a shell. The one comment describes PowerShell's object pipeline, which passes .NET objects between cmdlets instead of serialized bytes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharing my thoughts and idead.
What Hacker News says?
The main benefit of PowerShell over other shells is the object pipeline. In classical shells, a pipe basically connects binary stdout -> binary stdin. A pipe between PowerShell cmdlets, on the other hand, can produce .NET objects directly without having to serialize them, so the pipe can connect .NET object producer -> .NET object consumer. If the consumer can't handle objects, the pipe degrades to binary stdout ->…
Comment linking /blog/2013/1/28/powershell-basicsndashobjects-and-the-pipeline.html
on “Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin”Submitted Evil Packaging on OSX with Xcode and Metasploit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking Windows Management Instrumentation Activity with PSGumshoe as a story · 2 points
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