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There are two tricky little problems when setting your pathvariable in PowerShell. Here’s how to get past them.
Update to mac os high sierra. First, lots of guides show things like this:
If you don't want to use some 'powershell port', the best thing IMHO is to rewrite it into a macOS-compatible script, like bash scripts. Better yet, if you are planning to use both Windows and Mac, I recommend using cross-platform scripts (ex. Python) so that you only have to write your code once and execute (ideally) in both platforms. Windows PowerShell for Mac OS X, download best alternative solutions carefully chosen by our editors and user community.
Which works on Windows but won’t work on OS X. Mac update 10.12. The variable name has to be all-caps:
Next, the separator between path elements on Windows is ;, but on OS X it’s :. Swap them and you should be good to go:
Macos mysql client cli. Small details, but they were remarkably fiddly to figure out the first time I ran in to them. Lots of people use Posh on Windows, so lots of guides and docs won’t work on Mac. You may find similar compatibility problems in scripts, too. Hopefully this saves you from some frustration.
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Happy scripting,
Adam
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Hello!
PowerShell works great on Mac OS X. It’s my default shell. I usually only do things the Posh way, but sometimes the underlying system bubbles back up. Like when I’m writing git hooks.
In Posh, git hooks live in the same place and still have to be executable on your platform. That doesn’t change. But, the scripts themselves can be different. You have two options.
Your existing hooks written in bash or zsh or whatever Linux-ey shell you were using will still work. That’s great if you already have a bunch and you don’t want to port them all.
If you’re writing anything new, though, use PowerShell. When I get into a mess on my Posh Apple, it’s usually because I mixed PowerShell with the legacy shell. You’re better off using just one.
The shebang (#!) is the first line of executable scripts on Unix-like systems. It sets the program that’s used to run the script. We just need to write one in our hook script that points at pwsh (the PowerShell executable):
If you don’t have the path to your pwsh, you can find it with Get-Command pwsh.
After that, our hook works like normal:
If you don’t set the shebang at all (leaving nothing but the Write-Verbose command in our example), your hook will run but OS X won’t treat it like PowerShell. You get “not found” errors:
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That’s actually good. If you have old hook scripts without shebang lines, they won’t break. Just make sure any new Posh scripts do have a shebang and everything should work.
Enjoy the Posh life!
Adam
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