Mark, I'm pretty sure your attempt to change the address environment did
not work. I'm not sure if this will work, but the default command handler
uses the COMSPEC environment variable to obtain the command shell target.
Whether this works with the powershell depends on whether it supports the
same option switches that cmd.exe uses ("/c" is the critical one).
Otherwise, a new handler would need to be implemented. Is powershell a
standard feature of Windows now? We might want to consider adding a
powershell address environment for a future release.
Rick
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Chip Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I may be out in left field here, but I think Leslie is asking about
>> creating a Windows shortcut that invokes the Powershell instead of the
>> Command Prompt shell.
>>
>> I'm interested in the answer as well.
>>
>
> Chip,
>
> Maybe ...
>
> To create a short cut is relatively easy. You want the short cut to be to
> the PowerShell executable.
>
> On my Vista system, this is:
>
> C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
>
> One of the simpler ways to create a short cut is to go to that folder in
> Windows Explorer, right click on powershell.exe and choose Send To Desktop.
>
> That puts the short cut on the desktop, where you can edit it to your
> preferences. For instance, as is, it will open the PowerShell window with
> the current directory C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0. I'd
> change that to C:\work.ooRexx of course.
>
> You could pin the short cut to the Start Menu, etc..
>
> I see one thing that doesn't work as I expected. Take this quick test:
>
> say "Hello World!"
> 'Get-Process | Out-File test.txt'
>
> The second line is a valid PowerShell command that writes the output from
> the Get-Process cmdlet to the file test.txt.
>
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples> .\quick.rex
> Hello World!
> 'Get-Process' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples>
>
> The error message is straight from cmd.exe, so I tried this:
>
> say "Hello World!"
> address 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe'
> 'Get-Process | Out-File test.txt'
>
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples> .\quick.rex
> Hello World!
> 4 *-* 'Get-Process | Out-File test.txt'
> >>> "Get-Process | Out-File test.txt"
> +++ "RC(30)"
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples>
>
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples> net helpmsg 30
>
> The system cannot read from the specified device.
>
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples>
>
> So, I'm not sure if the address command worked and the 30 was returned
> from PowerShell, or ...
>
> It might be that we would need to write a specific command handler for
> PowerShell. I'm a little hazy on the details concerning command handlers.
>
> I was hoping that the string: 'Get-Process | Out-File test.txt' would just
> get passed the PowerShell environment and it would magically work. ;-)
>
> The PowerShell command itself is good:
>
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples> Get-Process | Out-File
> test.txt
> PS C:\work.ooRexx\wc\ooDialog\trunk\examples> cat .\test.txt
>
> Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
> ------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
> 71 8 1160 3336 42 0.02 1508 armsvc
> 175 24 64092 50020 237 3.14 992 chrome
> ...
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
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