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I've had a good time using zx (and some Deno takes on it). It's amazing how little is needed to make JS pretty handy for scripting. https://github.com/google/zx

I've had a good time using zx (and some Deno takes on it). It's amazing how little is needed to make JS pretty handy for scripting. https://github.com/google/zx https://github.com/google/zx I'd love some day to have the power-shelly dream of an object oriented platform. But I don't want to renounce all the cli tools I know & love & switch to a strange new platform to get it.

actionfromafar 4y ago
If only power-shell was a better shell. How do you start a cli program which is not in PATH? Good luck.
- jodrellblank 4y ago
  You write the path to it, relative or full, just like in other shells c:\temp\program.exe
  - actionfromafar 4y ago
    Now try it with a path which contains whitespace.
    - alyandon 4y ago
      For those that are genuinely curious, & "C:\Program Files\Vendor\AwesomeVendorProgram.exe" (yes - PS is definitely chock full of idiosyncrasies)
    - mgkimsal 4y ago
      "c:\program files\my user name\foo bar baz.exe" ??? tab completion generally works on space-filled path/names too, at least in the last 10 years or so, when working in windows worlds.
      - alyandon 4y ago
        PS interprets that as a string and echoes it. PS C:\Users\me> "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe" C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe
        runjake 4y ago
        I don't know what's different about your PowerShell -- I am running PS 7.2, but I type and tab complete the path to the binary and it auto prepends the ampersand for me. Embarrassingly, I never even paid attention before now, it "just works". My actual experience is pretty much identical to bash and zsh. There's not really any additional cognitive load. Maybe the commenters in this thread aren't used to normal *NIX shells? I don't have any experience with fish or oh-my-zsh.
        alyandon 4y ago
        Oh yes, tab completion adds an ampersand automatically on mine as well. I was just pointing out that literally quoting a pathname to an executable by itself doesn't achieve the desired outcome.
        actionfromafar 4y ago
        Tab completion does not add it in mine. PSVersion 7.3.3
        alyandon 4y ago
        That's really weird and I have no idea why it wouldn't be working for you. I even went as far as to spawn the ancient version of powershell included with Windows and pwsh 7.3.4 without a profile and tab completion adds the ampersand. I do import the PSReadLine module though in my profiles so maybe that is providing the functionality and I was wrong about loading an empty profile.

actionfromafar 4y ago

If only power-shell was a better shell. How do you start a cli program which is not in PATH? Good luck.

jodrellblank 4y ago
You write the path to it, relative or full, just like in other shells c:\temp\program.exe
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  Now try it with a path which contains whitespace.
  - alyandon 4y ago
    For those that are genuinely curious, & "C:\Program Files\Vendor\AwesomeVendorProgram.exe" (yes - PS is definitely chock full of idiosyncrasies)
  - mgkimsal 4y ago
    "c:\program files\my user name\foo bar baz.exe" ??? tab completion generally works on space-filled path/names too, at least in the last 10 years or so, when working in windows worlds.
    - alyandon 4y ago
      PS interprets that as a string and echoes it. PS C:\Users\me> "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe" C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe
      - runjake 4y ago
        I don't know what's different about your PowerShell -- I am running PS 7.2, but I type and tab complete the path to the binary and it auto prepends the ampersand for me. Embarrassingly, I never even paid attention before now, it "just works". My actual experience is pretty much identical to bash and zsh. There's not really any additional cognitive load. Maybe the commenters in this thread aren't used to normal *NIX shells? I don't have any experience with fish or oh-my-zsh.
        alyandon 4y ago
        Oh yes, tab completion adds an ampersand automatically on mine as well. I was just pointing out that literally quoting a pathname to an executable by itself doesn't achieve the desired outcome.
        actionfromafar 4y ago
        Tab completion does not add it in mine. PSVersion 7.3.3
        alyandon 4y ago
        That's really weird and I have no idea why it wouldn't be working for you. I even went as far as to spawn the ancient version of powershell included with Windows and pwsh 7.3.4 without a profile and tab completion adds the ampersand. I do import the PSReadLine module though in my profiles so maybe that is providing the functionality and I was wrong about loading an empty profile.