Windows Powershell script runner

This crate is pretty basic. It uses std::process::Command to pipe commands to PowerShell. In addition to that there is a convenient wrapper around process::Output especially tailored towards the usecase of running Windows PowerShell commands.

Usage

I recommend that you write the commands to a *.ps file to be able to take advantage of existing tools to create the script.

This example creates a shortcut of notepad.exe to the desktop.

NB. If you use OneDrive chances are that your desktop is located at "$env:UserProfile\OneDrive\Desktop\notepad.lnk" instead.

In script.ps

$SourceFileLocation="C:\Windows\notepad.exe"
$ShortcutLocation="$env:UserProfile\Desktop\notepad.lnk"
$WScriptShell=New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut=$WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutLocation)
$Shortcut.TargetPath=$SourceFileLocation
$Shortcut.Save()

In main.rs

extern crate powershell_script;
use std::io::{stdin, Read};

/// Creates a shortcut to notpad on the desktop
fn main() {
    let create_shortcut = include_str!("script.ps");
    match powershell_script::run(create_shortcut, true) {
        Ok(output) => {
            println!("{}", output);
        }
        Err(e) => {
            println!("Error: {}", e);
        }
    }
}

You can of course provide the commands as a string literal instead. Just beware that we run each line as a separate command.

The flag print_commands can be set to true if you want each command to be printed to the stdout of the main process as they're run which can be useful for debugging scripts or displaying the progress.

Compatability

This is only tested on Windows and most likely will only work on Windows. It should be possible to support PowerShell Core on Linux with only minor adjustments so leave a feature request if there is any interest in that.

Contributing

Right now this is only meant as a convenient wrapper for running PowerShell scripts, and I've been thinking about creating a utils crate with common tasks on Windows like creating a shortcut to a file (symlinking requires administrative privileges) but that will be better off in a separate create so this can focus on running scripts.

Any pull requests with bugfixes or efficiency improvements is greatly appreciated.