Piping arbitrary Powershell variables into NodeJS

Carl C — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:18:49 +0000

So yea I just learned how to pipe a powershell variable into a nodejs script.

(base) @Carl ➜ my-pwsh-deps git(main> $str = './README.md'
(base) @Carl ➜ my-pwsh-deps git(main) node -p @"
>> const path = require('path')
>> let s = ``$str``
>> console.log(path.parse(path.resolve(s)))
>> "@
{
  root: 'C:\\',
  dir: 'C:\\Users\\Carl\\gitstuff\\my-pwsh-deps',
  base: 'README.md',
  ext: '.md',
  name: 'README'
}

It's kind of similar to when you see a slice of perl code inside a bash script. Pretty cool.

System.IO.Path Class Methods in Powershell

Carl C — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:57:17 +0000

There are a lot of great path-related functions and methods available to the [System.IO.Path] class.

Here is an example for writing a small function that changes the value of $env:PSModulePath.

function Set-PSModulePath {

<#
.Synopsis
Set-PSModulePath [path]
.Description
Adjust the PSModulePath env variable to your liking
.Notes
Add integration with other modules so they can add their own dir
to the psmodulepath!
#>
param(
    [parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
    [string]
    $Path
)
# Cross-platform path-separator value
# On Windows it is `;`, on Unix-like systems it is `:`
$sep = [System.IO.Path]::PathSeparator
if ($Path) {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Adjusting PSModulePath
Adding $Path to `$env:PSModulePath"
    Write-Verbose "Setting old path to `$oldPSModulePath"
    $oldPSModulePath = $env:PSModulePath
    $env:PSModulePath = "${Path}${sep}$env:PSModulePath"
    Write-Host -fore Yellow "`$env:PSModulePath is now $env:PSModulePath"
}
else {
    Write-Error "You did not write a Path"
}

}

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Piping arbitrary Powershell variables into NodeJS

System.IO.Path Class Methods in Powershell