Scriptable and Interactive

PowerShell can be used as a scripting language, by creating reusable scripts that can automate various tasks, and it can also be used interactively, by opening up a console window and entering commands line by line.

In interactive mode, PowerShell is intelligent enough to know when a command is not complete and actually displays >> on a new line when it believes a complete command has not been entered.

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