alt Hacker NewsSo am I, as a terminal user, supposed to track file handles now?
CLI programs might be used by an actual human, not necessarily called by a script.
UNIX/Linux already has a compromise here with stdin/stdout/stderr, the convention that those are fds 0, 1, and 2, and stream redirection in shells. You can already redirect raw fds in bash on linux, that's exactly what "something > something.stdout.txt 2> something.stderr.txt" does.
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autoexec • yesterday at 4:52 PM
> UNIX/Linux already has a compromise here with stdin/stdout/stderr, the convention that those are fds 0, 1, and 2, and stream redirection in shells.
DOS provides the same
When there's a retail-grade desktop os built with capabilities as a foundational feature, it will want a shell with appropriate primitives and an ergonomic syntax for them.
Pwsh is not the last word on shells, but it does have automatic cast from string to FileInfo. Ergonomically, it kicks the shit out of legacy shells.
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