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Add proper support for PowerShell #5

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@ExE-Boss ExE-Boss commented May 24, 2018

PowerShell can’t properly pass string arguments containing the & symbol to Windows Command Prompt scripts, if the string containing the ampersand doesn’t have spaces, due to how the cmd prompt parses the & as a command delimiter, even in a string.

This patch adds a workaround by generating a third script specifically for PowerShell.

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  PowerShell can’t properly pass string arguments containing the `&`
symbol to Windows Command Prompt scripts, if the string containing
the ampersand doesn’t have spaces, due to how the cmd prompt parses
the `&` as a command delimiter, even in a string.

  This patch adds a workaround by generating a third script
specifically for PowerShell.
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zkochan commented Jul 8, 2018

LGTM but I wonder if we should create these files on non-Windows by default.
Maybe we could add a new option: createPowerShellFile that would work similarly to createCmdFile

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ExE-Boss commented Jul 8, 2018

Well, PowerShell 6 and newer can be installed on non‑Windows platforms as well, unlike the Windows Command Prompt, which is Windows only.

Because of this, I’d prefer to also generate the PowerShell scripts on non-windows platforms as well, because that’s the only way to be sure that PowerShell will handle the script correctly.

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zkochan commented Jul 8, 2018 via email

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ExE-Boss commented Jul 8, 2018

You could also check if the pwsh binary is on the PATH.

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zkochan commented Jul 8, 2018

Sounds good to me

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