On Tuesday evening, August 21, I had the opportunity to speak at Dave Noderer’s FlaDotNet User Group at Cendyn SPACES in Boca Raton, Florida. I presented “PowerShell Core – JumpStart to Building Cloud VM in Azure” where I showcased some features of PowerShell Studio. I also covered some cross-platform environments such as: Windows 10 […]
Category: Bash
SAPIEN Technologies at the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp 2018
SAPIEN Technologies is proud to have sponsored the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp 2018 on Saturday, June 9th. This year marked the seventh anniversary for the event which was well attended with over 275 attendees and 21 sponsors. The event was a success due in large part to support from Keiser University, event sponsors, and especially […]
PowerShell HelpWriter 2018: Create a Single Function Help File
PowerShell HelpWriter™ is an essential application to have in your toolbox, especially when working with existing scripts, functions, or modules. Eventually, your scripts will be shared or given to someone else to maintain, and no one wants to inherit a script that is hard to follow or difficult to understand. Including Help documentation with your […]
PowerShell Studio: Working with Azure Cloud Shell
I have been playing around with my Linux environment and AzureRM.Netcore cmdlets for some time now. I have also been using my Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for working cross-platform with Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell. Azure Cloud Shell has been around for some time and has undergone some significant improvements—notably the ability to […]
New Video – PrimalScript Command Window Option
The latest in our short video series demonstrates how to add command shell executables to PrimalScript using the Command Window option. In three minutes we show you how to: Setup PowerShell Core in PrimalScript Make PowerShell Core the active console window Test your PowerShell Core script You can follow the same steps to setup other […]
SAPIEN Tools – Setup WSL Bash with PowerShell Core in PrimalScript
In this blog post, we examine setting up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) “Bash with PowerShell Core” in PrimalScript’s “Console Window” list. Prepare Bash File In order to open PowerShell Core in Linux, the bash shell needs to be open and pwsh should be run from the console. So, a bash file needs to be […]
Setting up PowerShell on your Mac (Update!)
Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean. First you need to download the PowerShell macOS package from here (look for the Get PowerShell section in the README.md) and […]
Using Bash with PrimalScript 2016
I have been asked a few times now to use Bash with PrimalScript. It doesn’t have all the setup for it out of the box because there are a few different implementations of Bash available for Windows. If you followed the latest news, Microsoft has announced at the BUILD 2016 keynote that Bash will become […]
