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Comment by bialpio | Hacker News Reader

Two examples from the article translated into PS (sorry, I'm a bit rusty so the second one may not be the shortest possible):

  PS> "alice", "bob" | echo

  PS> Get-ChildItem . -Include "*test.cpp","*test.py" -Recurse | foreach { Remove-Item $_.Name }

No text parsing in sight, and the object attributes can be tab-completed from the shell (e.g. I tab-completed the `$_.Name`).

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You don't need to `foreach { Remove-Item $_.Name }` because Remove-Item can take the objects returned by Get-ChildItem directly.

Also, expanding the regex into `-Include` parameters is somewhat cheating since `-Include` only takes globs, and it just so happens that that particular regex can be converted into globs.

The general equivalent is:

    gci -re | ?{ $_.Name -match '.*_test\.(py|cc)' } | ri

(I used the shorter aliases because someone will probably read yours and reinforce the stereotype that PS is overly verbose.)

Thanks, this is definitely closer to the original use of `egrep`! As for aliases, I prefer long forms because I don't need to think what the seemingly random collections of letters mean, and tab-completion / PowerShell ISE makes it mostly a non-issue when writing.

Thanks, we were thinking of the same thing.

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