I have a Question about shortening a string in PowerShell. So for example we have this code here:
$path = "C:\Pow\temp\temp2"
Now, I wanted to shorten this String, even if I do not know it, but what I know is that it is a Path. So from this Path I want to get only the name of the last folder so from 'temp2'. Does someone know with what PowerShell Code you can do that? I would be happy for an answer, thank you.
In PowerShell 3.0 and newer, use Split-Path:
PS ~> $path = "C:\Pow\temp\temp2"
PS ~> Split-Path $path -Leaf
temp2
In PowerShell 2.0, use Path.GetFileName():
PS ~> [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($path.TrimEnd('\'))
temp2
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I'm stumped. :)
My computer has PowerShell 5.1 installed. On another computer (same language) 5.0 it works as expected. (Check using Get-Culture; my locale is nb-NO (Norwegian) )
Consider this:
Get-Date
returns
tirsdag 23. mai 2017 13.13.18
So I do this
Get-Date -Format "H-m-s"
as expected it returns
13-13-18
But then I do this
Get-Date -Format "H:m:s"
You think it returns
13:13:18
right? (it does on PS5.0!) No! I get this:
13.13.18
Only if I do this, is the output what I want:
Get-Date -Format "H\:m\:s"
13:13:18
Can someone please explain why this is? I discovered it "by accident" when I wanted to format a datetime-compatible string for use in SQL Server.
That's because the underlying DateTime formatting function see's : and treats it as a culture-dependent "time separator".
In Norwegian (no-NO), the default time separator is .. You can inspect this with (assuming that no-NO is the current culture):
PS C:\> [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.TimeSeparator
.
You can also override this, either by inserting a literal :, with the escape sequence \: as you've already found, or you can override it globally (for the lifetime of the current process/appdomain):
PS C:\> [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.TimeSeparator = ":"
PS C:\> Get-Date -Format "H:m:s"
13:13:18
I need to create ONE integrated script that sets some environment variables, downloads a file using wget and runs it.
The challenge is that it needs to be the SAME script that can run on both Windows PowerShell and also bash / shell.
This is the shell script:
#!/bin/bash
# download a script
wget http://www.example.org/my.script -O my.script
# set a couple of environment variables
export script_source=http://www.example.org
export some_value=floob
# now execute the downloaded script
bash ./my.script
This is the same thing in PowerShell:
wget http://www.example.org/my.script -O my.script.ps1
$env:script_source="http://www.example.org"
$env:some_value="floob"
PowerShell -File ./my.script.ps1
So I wonder if somehow these two scripts can be merged and run successfully on either platform?
I've been trying to find a way to put them in the same script and get bash and PowerShell.exe to ignore errors but have had no success doing so.
Any guesses?
It is possible; I don't know how compatible this is, but PowerShell treats strings as text and they end up on screen, Bash treats them as commands and tries to run them, and both support the same function definition syntax. So, put a function name in quotes and only Bash will run it, put "exit" in quotes and only Bash will exit. Then write PowerShell code after.
NB. this works because the syntax in both shells overlaps, and your script is simple - run commands and deal with variables. If you try to use more advanced script (if/then, for, switch, case, etc.) for either language, the other one will probably complain.
Save this as dual.ps1 so PowerShell is happy with it, chmod +x dual.ps1 so Bash will run it
#!/bin/bash
function DoBashThings {
wget http://www.example.org/my.script -O my.script
# set a couple of environment variables
export script_source=http://www.example.org
export some_value=floob
# now execute the downloaded script
bash ./my.script
}
"DoBashThings" # This runs the bash script, in PS it's just a string
"exit" # This quits the bash version, in PS it's just a string
# PowerShell code here
# --------------------
Invoke-WebRequest "http://www.example.org/my.script.ps1" -OutFile my.script.ps1
$env:script_source="http://www.example.org"
$env:some_value="floob"
PowerShell -File ./my.script.ps1
then
./dual.ps1
on either system.
Edit: You can include more complex code by commenting the code blocks with a distinct prefix, then having each language filter out its own code and eval it (usual security caveats apply with eval), e.g. with this approach (incorporating suggestion from Harry Johnston ):
#!/bin/bash
#posh $num = 200
#posh if (150 -lt $num) {
#posh write-host "PowerShell here"
#posh }
#bash thing="xyz"
#bash if [ "$thing" = "xyz" ]
#bash then
#bash echo "Bash here"
#bash fi
function RunBashStuff {
eval "$(grep '^#bash' $0 | sed -e 's/^#bash //')"
}
"RunBashStuff"
"exit"
((Get-Content $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Source) -match '^#posh' -replace '^#posh ') -join "`n" | Invoke-Expression
While the other answer is great (thank you TessellatingHeckler and Harry Johnston)
(and also thank you j-p-hutchins for fixing the error with true)
We can actually do way better
Work with more shells (e.g. work for Ubuntu's dash)
Less likely to break in future situations
No need to waste processing time re-reading/evaling the script
Waste less characters/lines on confusing syntax(we can get away with a mere 41 chars, and mere 3 lines)
Even Keep syntax highlighting functional
Copy Paste Code
Save this as your_thing.ps1 for it to run as powershell on Windows and run as shell on all other operating systems.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo --% >/dev/null;: ' | out-null
<#'
#
# sh part
#
echo "hello from bash/dash/zsh"
echo "do whatver you want just dont use #＞ directly"
echo "e.g. do #""> or something similar"
# end bash part
exit #>
#
# powershell part
#
echo "hello from powershell"
echo "you literally don't have to escape anything here"
How? (its actually simple)
We want to start a multi-line comment in powershell without causing an error in bash/shell.
Powershell has multi-line comments <# but as-is they would cause problems in bash/shell languages. We need to use a string like "<#" for bash, but we need it to NOT be a string in powershell.
Powershell has a stop-parsing arg --% lets write single quote without starting a string, e.g. echo --% ' blah ' will print out ' blah '. This is great because in shell/bash the single quotes do start a string, e.g. echo --% ' blah ' will print out blah
We need a command in order to use powershell's stop-parsing-args, lucky for us both powershell and bash have an echo command
So, in bash we can echo a string with <#, but powershell the same code finishes the echo command then starts a multi-line comment
Finally we add >/dev/null to bash so that it doesn't print out --% every time, and we add | out-null so that powershell doesn't print out >/dev/null;: ' every time.
The syntax highlighting tells the story more visually
Powershell Highlighting
All the green stuff is ignored by powershell (comments)
The gray --% is special
The | out-null is special
The white parts are just string-arguments without quotes
(even the single quote is equivlent to "'")
The <# is the start of a multi-line comment
Bash Highlighting
For bash its totally different.
Lime green + underline are the commands.
The --% isn't special, its just an argument
But the ; is special
The purple is output-redirection
Then : is just the standard "do nothing" shell command
Then the ' starts a string argument that ends on the next line
Caveats?
Almost almost none. Powershell legitimately has no downside. The Bash caveats are easy to fix, and are exceedingly rare
If you need #> in a bash string, you'll need to escape it somehow.
changing "#>" to "#"">"or from ' blah #> ' to ' blah #''> '.
If you have a comment #> and for some reason you CANNOT change that comment (this is what I mean by exceedingly rare), you can actually just use #>, you just have to add re-add those first two lines (eg true --% etc) right after your #> comment
One even more exceedingly rare case is where you are using the # to remove parts of a string (I bet most don't even know this is a bash feature). Example code below
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/bash.1.html#EXPANSION
var1=">blah"
echo ${var1#＞}
# ^ removes the > from var1
To fix this one, well there are alternative ways of removeing chars from the begining of a string, use them instead.
Following up on Jeff Hykin's answer, I have found that the first line, while it is happy in bash, produces this output in PowerShell. Note that it is still fully functional, just noisy.
true : The term 'true' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling
of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\jp\scratch\envar.ps1:4 char:1
+ true --% ; : '
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (true:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
hello from powershell
I am experimenting with changing the first lines from:
true --% ; : '
<#'
to:
echo --% > /dev/null ; : ' | out-null
<#'
In very limited testing this seems to be working in bash and powershell. For reference, I am "sourcing" the scripts not "calling" them, e.g. . env.ps1 in bash and . ./env.ps1 in powershell.
I'am new in Linux and I want to write a bash script that can read in a file name of a directory that starts with LED + some numbers.(Ex.: LED5.5.002)
In that directory there is only one file that will starts with LED. The problem is that this file will every time be updated, so the next time it will be for example LED6.5.012 and counting.
I searched and tried a little bit and came to this solution:
export fspec=/home/led/LED*
LedV=`basename $fspec`
echo $LedV
If I give in those commands one by one in my terminal it works fine, LedV= LED5.5.002 but if i run it in a bash scripts it gives the result: LedV = LED*
I search after another solution:
a=/home/led/LED*
LedV=$(basename $a)
echo $LedV
but here again the same, if i give it in one by one it's ok but in a script: LedV = LED*.
It's probably something small but because of my lack of knowledge over Linux I cannot find it. So can someone tell what is wrong?
Thanks! Jan
Shell expansions don't happen on scalar assignments, so in
varname=foo*
the expansion of "$varname" will literally be "foo*". It's more confusing when you consider that echo $varname (or in your case basename $varname; either way without the double quotes) will cause the expansion itself to be treated as a glob, so you may well think the variable contains all those filenames.
Array expansions are another story. You might just want
fspec=( /path/LED* )
echo "${fspec[0]##*/}" # A parameter expansion to strip off the dirname
That will work fine for bash. Since POSIX sh doesn't have arrays like this, I like to give an alternative approach:
for fspec in /path/LED*; do
break
done
echo "${fspec##*/}"
pwd
/usr/local/src
ls -1 /usr/local/src/mysql*
/usr/local/src/mysql-cluster-gpl-7.3.4-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz
/usr/local/src/mysql-dump_test_all_dbs.sql
if you only have 1 file, you will only get 1 result
MyFile=`ls -1 /home/led/LED*`
So I've got a UNC path like so:
\\server\folder
I want to get just the path to server, eg \\server.
Split-Path "\\server\folder" -Parent returns "". Anything I try which deals with the root, fails.
For example, Get-Item "\\server" fails too.
How can I safely get the path of \\server from \\server\\folder in PowerShell?
By using the System.Uri class and querying its host property:
$uri = new-object System.Uri("\\server\folder")
$uri.host # add "\\" in front to get exactly what you asked
Note: For a UNC path, the root directory is the servername plus the share name part.
An example using regular expressions:
'\\server\share' -replace '(?<!\\)\\\w+'
$fullpath = "\\server\folder"
$parentpath = "\\" + [string]::join("\",$fullpath.Split("\")[2])
$parentpath
\\server
I'm writing a script that needs to find a file in a directory based on the user input. That file contains a filepath, and I need to use that filepath as a variable so I can use it later in a mv command. So far :-
read x
path = `cat ~/filepaths/$x`
Later it needs to move a file from trash using the filepath read from this file
mv ~/trash/$x $path
Currently, it doesn't appear to work, and hangs when it runs. Is there something stupid I've missed here?
EDIT: Solved, was a stupid syntax mistake. Thanks for your help!
Remove the spaces around the assignment:
path=`cat ~/filepaths/$x`
or:
path=$(< ~/filepaths/$x)