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Pash – cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement.
Posted by Igor Moochnick on 04/06/2008
Pash – http://pash.sourceforge.net/
PowerShell open source reimplementation for “others” (Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc…) and Windows (including Windows Mobile and Windows CE)
About the name
Pash = PoSH (PowerShell) + bash (one of the Unix shells)
Goals
The main goal is to provide a rich shell environment for other operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to Windows version of PowerShell. The scrips, cmdlets and providers should runs AS-IS (if they are not using Windows-specific functionality). The rich applications that host PowerShell should run on any other operating system AS-IS. Secondary goal: the scripts should run across the machines and different OS’s seamlesly (but following all the security guidelines).
Environment
The current implementation of Pash is written using pure .Net 2.0. It compiles on VS 2008 as well as on Mono. So all the developers can choose the environment that fits their needs and preferences. The produced assemblies can be executed “right out of the box” on Windows, Linux, Mac (or others) without any additional recompilation. Note: for Windows Mobile and Windows CE the produced code should be recompiled against the .NET Compact Framework.
Progress
You’re welcome to get the source code and contribute to the Pash public effort @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pash.
~50% of public PowerShell classes defined.
~40% of framework functionality operational.
Stay tuned for more detailed info. Trying to figure out how to produce the similar class diff that Mono project is using.
Screenshots
Windows (duh !..)
Pash on Mono + SuSE Linux
Pash on Compact .NET Framework
and (drum roll …) Pash on Mac
IgorShare Thoughts and Ideas 
Stuart Carnie said
Fantastic!
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Wesley Parish said
What I’m wondering is how useful this is going to be to manage Windows desktops from the Linux commandline. I guess that that would depend on the network infrastructure.
I guess I can always test it at home: when I find it working to my satisfaction, I can try it out at work.
Anyway, thanks!
Jeffrey Snover said
I can’t tell you how many customers have been asking for this.
I think it will be quite popular.
We should figure out how to make sure that you are totally in synch with PS so that we don’t drive customers crazy.
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Jason Fossen said
Great!! I teach a PowerShell course and I’ll definitely tell my attendees about your site. Best of luck!
Andy said
can’t wait to run this on my mac at home! This is awesome!
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timetrap said
What do you need help with?
n4cer said
From the screenshot, there seems to be a bug on the Mac.
Check the line:
11..14
It should output 11 12 13 14, but instead shows 17 18 19 20.
anonymous said
Have you considered what 11 and 14 respectively is in hexidecimal?
11h = 17d and 14h = 20d so 11..14 (hex) will return 17, 18, 19 and 20 (decimal) as shown in the screenshot.
One could argue that if input is in hexidecimal output should also be in hexidecimal unless something else is stated.
rossmeeks.ca said
PowerShell for other platforms…
I love PowerShell (PoSh). It gives me (most of) the power of Perl, plus the DotNet framework(library), plus easy discoverability and debugging since all variables in PowerShell are objects with properties and methods.
Now PowerShell is available for M…
anne O'nime said
nobody noticed the buggy screenshot ?
11..14
17
18
19
20
anonymous said
Have you considered what 11 and 14 respectively is in hexidecimal? 11h = 17d and 14h = 20d so 11..14 (hex) will return 17, 18, 19 and 20 (decimal) as shown in the screenshot. One could argue that if input is in hexidecimal output should also be in hexidecimal unless something else is stated.
karl prosser said
way to go, i’ve been looking forward to seeing this come out in the wild. It seems like you got alot of press in a few days , Congrats
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Alex said
Did anyone see Grash? It’s pretty much power shell on JVM using the Groovy scripting language. Quite neat but development seems to have long stalled.
igormoochnick said
Thanks for noticing the bug in Mac. You’re welcome to open your first bug in SourceForge for Pash project.
Richard said
Brilliant. This is going to be big
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Bruce said
There has been a lot of talk at the SharpOS project on wanting Powershell, but all of us being much to busy to start yet another side-project. (And Powershell is a beast all on its own!)
And it appears that someone not only has done it, but is doing it well. I can’t wait to try it out on my Linux VM, and I’m even more excited at the possibilities of integrating it into our 100% C# OS, down the road.
Very cool!
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Lior said
Will it run on iPhone?
Since OsX is supported, it begs the question.
igormoochnick said
According to Miguel, Mono now runs on iPhone – so Pash should run with no change. As soon as I’ll lay my hands on iPhone with Mono – I’ll give it a try.
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ghanshyam prakash said
Congrats…The re-implementation of Posh as Pash is fantastic. looking forward more dev on this.
Vladekk said
Project is dead?
It don’t even allows simple “ls” on linux in current state and last change was 7 months ago.
igormoochnick said
The project is not really dead. It moves forward with a very slow speed, mainly because there is almost to none interest in the project from the community (both M$ and Mono). I’ve received a couple of initial requests to join, but the people have disappeared.
P.S. Actually “ls” is working – check the config file for correct aliases.
FromTheDeepNet said
This is an exciting idea, but letting it get released as version “1.1” when ls / Get-ChildItem isn’t even working is extremely frustrating and obviously a bit premature. Hit-the-marketing-deadlines-and-fix-it-after-it-ships is supposed to be the Microsoft / proprietary way, not the open source way.
igormoochnick said
Agreed. The versionning is not that great but the project hasn’t been oficially released. It’s in a CTP mode yet.
Vladekk said
The project is not really dead. It moves forward with a very slow speed, mainly because there is almost to none interest in the project from the community (both M$ and Mono). I’ve received a couple of initial requests to join, but the people have disappeared.
That’s sad. But if situation is such, I agree you should apply your skills where they will be needed and used more.
As for “ls” – I can’t change directory with “cd”. Prompt changes as if was changed, but nothing else happens – ls or Get-ChildItem always outputs nothing.
get-psdrive outputs
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Alias -> Alias
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /sys
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /proc
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /dev
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /dev/.static/dev
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /lib/init/rw
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /proc/bus/usb
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /dev/shm
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /dev/pts
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /var
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /home
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /var/lib/mysql
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /mnt/sdd
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /mnt/sdb
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /home/vladekk/hdd
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /home/backup
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /proc/fs/nfsd
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /home/export
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem -> /data
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Variable -> Variable
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Environment -> Env
Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Function -> Function
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Tom said
Great, ive tried it on xp and vista and I love PowerShell.
But on linux… Wow! I guess your Pash-ionate about IT Pros huh 😉
Tom
vbman09 said
I hope you will continue the project – its definitely worth. The Mono Community is probably to small to notice or not too much interested in admin stuff or in another interpreted language. And for most Windows admins cross plattfom is either not an issue or they already use Bash, Perl etc. May be you should move the project to CodePlex (I’ll doubt you get any Linux dev do some work on another scripting language for Linux – or join Karl Prosser and bring a “moveable PowerShell” to a new level;).
Victor
Victor said
Could you please write a few words about how to compile the sources? I want to compile the project with Mono Develop 2.0 but it looks like a Gold Parser-Library is missing? Could please provide a link to the downloadsite of this library.
Victor
igormoochnick said
The Gold Parser is checked in on the tree as well as you can get it from http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/
dimir said
Hi,
I was able to compile the Pash.exe using monodevelop (clicked Build all). Went to Pash/PashConsole/bin/Debug and ran Pash.exe, the result was as follows:
$ mono Pash.exe
Pash (PowerShell open source reimplementation)
Implemented by IgorM @ http://IgorShare.WordPress.com
ERROR: Command “prompt” was not found.
I tried enabling “verbose” option in mono (-v) and the last lines before the above error were:
[…]
Method string:ParseDecimal (string,int&) emitted at 0xb6989ad8 to 0xb6989b47 (code length 111) [Pash.exe]
Method string:ToString () emitted at 0xb6989b48 to 0xb6989b53 (code length 11) [Pash.exe]
Method System.InvalidOperationException:.ctor (string) emitted at 0xb6989b58 to 0xb6989b7b (code length 35) [Pa
sh.exe]
Method (wrapper static-rgctx-invoke) System.Collections.Generic.List`1/Enumerator:static_rgctx_invoke_void__this__ () emitted at 0xb6989b80 to 0xb6989b92 (code length 18) [Pash.exe]
Method System.Exception:get_Message () emitted at 0xb6989ba8 to 0xb6989be2 (code length 58) [Pash.exe]
Method Pash.Implementation.LocalHostUserInterface:WriteErrorLine (string) emitted at 0xb6989bf0 to 0xb6989c21 (
code length 49) [Pash.exe]
ERROR: Command “prompt” was not found.
Would it be possible to provide me any help based on this information?
Thanks,
dimir
Samuel said
Is it possible to get powershell access across platforms to work – without the SSH server, etc?
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John said
Igor / Victor, I’m trying to get Pash runnning on Linux, but not having much luck. I’ve installed Mono (on SLES 10 with Mono), but I don’t think I’m properly invoking Mono / Pash.
Could you share how you got it all working in Linux?
-John
John said
When will the next update to POSH be released?
David Noble said
Are you still working on this? I ask because I see very little activity on Source Forge and just three comments; one that simply says, “good idea.” By the way, I agree with that comment, but as a former Microsoft employee, I’d expect some talk, but not much cooperation on this.
That’s not to say the PowerShell team wouldn’t like to see PowerShell become a cross-platform management tool, but rather that cross-platform projects are very difficult to start, manage and support from inside Microsoft given ship pressures. Where are you currently headed with this?
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Tomas said
Igor, is pash still under development?
Thnx
Nick Duncanson said
Is this dead, or is it still being worked on? I noticed the sources haven’t been updated in 2 years on source forge.
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zelycorn said
Is there some news for PASH ? I need to know if PASH is able to run a V2 PowerShell script. I have’nt details about it support. Please, could you help me or tell me an other way to run a V2 PowerShell script on linux ?
igormoochnick said
No news for Pash. The community didn’t pick it up. It’s sad…
phunktonal johnkey said
I’m speechless. You guys are awesome!!!
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Brian G. Shacklett said
This project appears to have a fork with a good amount of activity at https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash
Igor Moochnick said
This is really cool. Happy to hear that. Thank you for the comment.