Re: Running powershell inside urxvt or mintty

[BGINFO4X <bginfo4x at kztsoftware dot com>]

2013/3/28 Thiago Padilha <tpadilha84@gmail.com>:
> I can successfully run powershell from cygwin if I start it from
> 'cygwin.bat' (running in the normal DOS console), but the powershell
> command simply hangs when I try to run it from urxvt or mintty. All I
> see is this:
>
> Windows PowerShell
> Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> but after that no prompt is displayed. Anyone knows what I'm missing here?
>

Try this:

echo "\n" | powershell -Command "& {get-wmiObject Win32_Computersystem
| Format-Table Model}"

Note: echo "\n" is necessary to return the prompt to the cygwin shell.
At least, when I tested.

Regards.



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