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Good evening I hate Windows. Yes, I have to do this. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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] 89 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

That sounds like you don't know what you're doing. No offense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck man, I don't know what I'm going either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Damn autocorrect...

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Please explain why you don’t open powershell and run cmd.exe instead of running bash? This is a strange workaround and doesn’t really make sense.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)

Got to at least wrap it up in some python.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 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] 20 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WSL has changed the game pretty significantly, don't you agree? It's not perfect, but allows me to stay firm in my resolve never to learn powershell.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

After learning PowerShell and then moving to Linux and having to learn bash...I don't get this sentiment. PS is the shit. I can make full GUI applications and automate all kinds of workflows. Their use of objects makes it so easy to extract data and utilize it. Bash feels so much more primitive and clumsy by comparison. What am I missing here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bash sucks. At best, only use it to pipe commands into each other in the terminal (Or change your shell to something else). For scripting, use Python or something.

Btw, Powershell runs on Linux if you want that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I did install it on one of my machines but haven't dug in yet. I'm curious to see how much of my workflow will translate to Linux, yet at the same time I want to make sure I'm actually learning Linux and not using PS as a crutch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People use Bash for quick and dirty scripts, because it's pretty much just a few symbols in between all the commands that they know and use all the time anyways. You don't really 'learn' Bash in a dedicated manner, you rather just pick up on tricks and tidbits over years.

For more than that, you'd use Python, Ruby or a full-fledged programming language.
Personally, I would even go so far that Powershell hardly added something new that wasn't already covered by a programming language...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Python is always something I intend to learn but never get around to. Does it natively handle GUI for process tooling or does it require a third party? What makes PowerShell so useful to me is the native ability to create visual applications without the need to compile. I can create tools for my company that launches right out of ConfigMgr Software Center and other technicians can contribute without needing a programming background.

At home I want to mess around with tooling for home services without having to resort to web development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I'm not the best to ask about Python. I need more rigid languages for my daily job, so it's much quicker for me to just throw down a small project in one of those.

I do know, though, that Python comes with Tkinter out of the box. People usually don't praise that all too much, but it's probably fine for small GUIs.

However, it's almost certainly worse than Powershell/.NET for creating Windows-only GUIs.

If you'd like to write GUIs on the Linux side, then I would frankly recommend not doing that.
No Linux sysadmin wants a GUI to deal with. If you give them a CLI, then they can automate that, i.e. integrate it into yet another (probably Bash) script.
Not to mention that most Linux servers don't even have a graphics stack installed...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I appreciate the feedback. For the Linux side it's for personal projects and learning opportunities so starting with something familiar and growing from there is my goal.

I dabble in C and C++ so cli isn't out of the question for me. But .NET is my comfort zone, and I like the rapid tooling that PS offers.

I have multiple reasons to dig into Python so really I just need to get on with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can create tools for my company that launches right out of ConfigMgr Software Center and other technicians can contribute without needing a programming background.

Now this is a bit of magic I would like to learn. I read through PowerShell in a month of lunches a couple of years ago and it's saved my butt a couple of times. I'm due for a re-read though. Would you have a source on where I could go to learn more about creating GUI applications in PowerShell?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This blog does a fairly straight-forward job on explaining the basics. For me, I learn best in an interactive 1:1 or well-constructed video, so ChatGPT was priceless. I could ask it stupid questions all day long, and after throwing some different ideas around I started to see the essential parts and just let my prior knowledge of PS, .NET, and C# WPF take it from there.

At the end of the day, all that really matters is using the PresentationFramework assembly and creating a window:

  • Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework
  • Either use Visual Studio > WPF Project and make the UI you want. Take the XAML file and use PowerShell to get the raw content:
    • $Xaml = Get-Content -Path MainWindow.xaml -Raw
    • $SanitizedXaml = $Xaml -replace "bad syntax e.g. Foreground={x:Null}" "Foreground="Transparent" # Certain XAML syntax is incompatible with PS XML
    • [xml]$XmlReader = [System.Xml.XmlNodeReader]::new($SanitizedXaml)
    • $Window = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($XmlReader)
  • Or, use .NET-style syntax in PS directly:
  • Then show the window:
    • $Window.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mh, it probably depends a lot where you're coming from. I don't need Powershell or have a reason to learn it in my daily work, and I mostly use WSL to access Linux shells everywhere else. And on top of that, I don't understand why Powershell needs a completely different command set to basically every other shell. It's a biased take, but I have not had an interaction with Powershell that I liked, nor have I seen a feature that made me want to look into it more.

What's the killer feature, would you say? Care giving me the fanboy-pitch?

edit. Oh and I forgot, the tab completion in Powershell is so incredibly dumb. I never ever in my life want to cycle through all items in a path, and much less have it be case insensitive. Come to think of it, this might be the origin of most of my disdain. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By far it's the object pipeline. Having structured data makes it easy to automate workflows in a predictable way. With bash everything is a string, so everything has to be parsed. It's tedious.

It took about a year of steady use before I came to enjoy the syntax. It shines in a production environment with other cooks in the kitchen. I never got into the C style, I like my code human readable at a glance. It's fine if everyone's a sage but we have a team with a mixture of skill levels and for me PowerShell gets it right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That actually makes a lot of sense. I never even second guessed how tedious all the parsing is. But then, as others have said here, as soon as the task at hand reaches a level of complexity beyond grepping, piping and so on I just very naturally move to Python.

On a different note, there are ways to teach bash json. I recall seeing a hacker conference talk on it some time ago, but didn't pay close attention.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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] 6 points 5 months ago

I just threw up while crying

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It sounds like your hate in this instance is misplaced, because "someone" set things up in that stupid way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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

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

Young Willem Dafoe:

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

I'll be checking that out

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