/PSNative

PowerShell module to invoke native commands

Primary LanguagePowerShellMIT LicenseMIT

PSNative

Provides wrapper commands to launch external applications and interact with them from PowerShell.

Installation

To install this module from the PSGallery, run the following command:

Install-Module PSNative -Scope CurrentUser

Use

Start a process, wait for it to complete and receive results

Invoke-NativeCommand nslookup 'wikipedia.org' '1.1.1.1'
File     : nslookup
Success  : True
Output   : Server:  one.one.one.one
           Address:  1.1.1.1

           Name:    wikipedia.org
           Addresses:  2620:0:862:ed1a::1
                  91.198.174.192


Error    : Non-authoritative answer:

ExitCode : 0

Start an interactive process

$cmd = Start-NativeProcess cmd
$cmd.ReadOutput()
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22624.1616]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


$cmd.Send("dir c:\")
$cmd.ReadOutput()
C:\Temp>dir c:\
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is EA0E-5651

 Directory of c:\

...
2023-04-11  23:25    <DIR>          Program Files
2023-03-22  10:16    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
2023-01-13  14:04    <DIR>          Users
...
2023-04-26  09:48    <DIR>          Windows
               2 File(s)         19.845 bytes
              17 Dir(s)  229.840.195.584 bytes free

$cmd.Stop()