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Good evening I hate Windows. Yes, I have to do this. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since people are curious Ill explain why:

I need to build our project from the remote repo using a PowerShell script (.ps1). I’m using Bash in the VSCode terminal, I have to run the .ps1 script in a new Command Prompt because the compilation takes around 5 minutes and I need my terminal for other things. To do this, the only way is to run a batch file that executes the .ps1 script.

Its an automation so I dont need to touch powershell whatsover and remain in bash terminal. Instead of opening several windows, I automated all so it only takes 1 alias to compile my shit.

The compilation also requires several inputs and "Key Presses", so I automated all of that in the Batch file.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Therapist: Young Willem Dafoe isn't real, he can't hurt you.

Young Willem Dafoe:

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

pOwErShEll

How many of them are there in windows nowadays, cmd, pOwershell versions, shell if you use git, ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Cygwin in my build system so I don't have to rewrite commands for different systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'll be checking that out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That pic of Willem Dafoe is patently false... no dong hanging

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Another question, why can't you write the compile script in bash?

ChatGPT would make pretty short work of the conversion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Until you have it write a github action that uses a bash script to process a directory structure with spaces in the names. Never seen ChatGPT so confused before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Env variable that problem away if it's from software you don't control, then fix your shit from where you do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This is a common issue in software, not limited to scripting. Software are getting more and more layers of wrappers/adapter code, like a Russian doll. It contributes to dependency hell, as each layer brings new dependencies.

Developers often find it easier to wrap existing apps and software, and add another layer on top, rather than improving or replacing what exists.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

My work someone made a robust automated build script, and they left so someone else made a wrapper around it to make it easier to work with, they're gone now and someone wrote a wrapper around that to extend functionality in a backwards compatible way, but it's overly complicated for my minimal use cases so I wrote a batch file to call it with my default settings...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Command prompt is CMD and batch script, Powershell is Pwsh and .ps1, then bash is .sh.

You've confused a few things here..

FYI, open a powershell terminal separately, to the path of your script (powershell in file Explorer path) and run your script.

Do rest of Work in Vscode

Done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Ansible on WSL to run Powershell scripts on Windows using VSCode. I'm surprised it works as well as it does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You use Linux to run Ansible to run ps1 on Windows, exactly how it's meant to be used!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

U can probably add a couple more layers by sshing into a vm

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't forget to run some docker container on that VM, to encapsulate the workload, so it will be: SSH to VM -> open a shell into the container -> run the rest

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got to at least wrap it up in some python.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Good idea perhaps we can route over tor as well just to maximise latency

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

You work a job that uses PowerShell and you refuse to learn or use it. You are creating problems for yourself.

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