Why is “<” input redirect not implemented in PowerShell?

Question

Why is input redirection not implemented in PowerShell?

To do something like this:

mysql -u root < create.sql

I had to switch to

Answer 1

I don't think MySQL will accept PowerShell objects piped to it - as Stephan says though, you could use Get-Content and pipe it to the next command.

Check out Stack Overflow question Is PowerShell ready to replace my Cygwin shell on Windows? for reasons on why they haven't copied Unix shells.