Similar to PrimalScript 2012, we received requests to add support for GIT, Mercurial, and Subversion in PowerShell Studio 2012. The difficulty of supporting all these various source control solutions is that they all have different APIs and change over time. The varying nature of these tools could potentially make the integration outdated fairly quickly. One […]
Tag: command line
Using GIT, Subversion and Mercurial with PrimalScript 2012
For quite some time we have been asked to add support for the aforementioned version control systems to PrimalScript. But every time we looked into it, the API changed or the preferred system du jour changed. We didn’t want to add support for too many API’s that get potentially outdated fast. But most importantly, many […]
ChangeVue to get traditional command-line interface
ChangeVue 2009, SAPIEN Technologies’ source control system, is about to get yet another new way to manage its content: a traditional command line interface! Soon you will be able to manage your existing ChangeVue repositories directly through the CMD.exe console or through traditional batch files. The command line executable, CVC.exe, will be automatically installed when you […]
Running command-line tools
These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool’s output. ‘ ‘ ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials – by Don Jones ‘ ‘ Run cmdline tools ‘ This shows how to launch a command-line ‘ tool and retrieve its output into a string variable ‘ to then do something with it. For […]
Registry queries the easy way
Another topic that I’ve seen resurface in the forums I frequent is reading remote registries. If you know exactly what you’re looking for it doesn’t get any easier than using REG.EXE from the command line. Here’s how to use it and a batch file ready for you to use.