{"id":893,"date":"2008-12-10T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/shell-me-bash-me\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:00:36","slug":"shell-me-bash-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/shell-me-bash-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell me, Bash me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last blog posts you have already seen that PrimalScript 2009 will have an integrated PowerShell command window.<\/p>\n<p>With PowerShell storming the charts, command line environments experience a bit of a renaissance. From a script development perspective it makes perfect sense to have a prompt ready in order to try out a command. If you are using any shell scripting language, this can be very convenient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"112\" alt=\"clip_image006\" hspace=\"12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image006-thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A PowerShell instance<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As much as we love PowerShell, we did not want to limit you to one specific shell only. <br \/>So instead of PowerShell you can have good old CMD.exe as your shell to issue quick commands, like those famous one-liners Jeffery Hicks shares here: <a title=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/more-one-liners.html\" href=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/more-one-liners.html\">http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/more-one-liners.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"125\" alt=\"clip_image002\" hspace=\"12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image002-thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A basic CMD.exe Shell<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may gravitate more towards the UNIX area and prefer BASH (Bourne Again SHell) or a copy of 4DOS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"157\" alt=\"clip_image004\" hspace=\"12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clip-image004-thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>A Cygwin BASH instance<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The command window options dialog lets you set what colors and font you would like to use in your shell window.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"193\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/image-thumb.png\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>But of course you can have no shell at all if that is not your thing, without any impact. 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