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Re: Running powershell inside urxvt or mintty


It worked when using with the '-Comand' option or passing a script
file as argument, but I still get stuck if I need to enter powershell
REPL. Perhaps you have a workaround for it?

In any case, thanks for your help

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:40 AM, BGINFO4X <bginfo4x@kztsoftware.com> wrote:
> 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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