Ability to write task in Pwsh 7+ about bolt HOT 3 CLOSED

You should be able to configure this in the interpreters config for .ps1 files https://www.puppet.com/docs/bolt/latest/bolt_transports_reference.html#interpreters

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@donoghuc I had no idea about this. Thank you!

Is it expected that if a task input_method is powershell that you cannot define interpreters? If I set this to stdin it actually runs in pwsh.exe instead of powershell.exe.

Reproduction:

bolt-project.yaml:

---
name: bolt_pwsh_task
modules: []

inventory:

config:
  local:
    interpreters:
      ".ps1": "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe"

working but no named parameters tasks/init.json:

{
    "input_method": "stdin",
    "parameters": {
        "name": {
            "description": "Name of user to run command",
            "type": "String"
        }
    }
}

always powershell.exe but working named params tasks/init.json:

{
    "input_method": "powershell",
    "parameters": {
        "name": {
            "description": "Name of user to run command",
            "type": "String"
        }
    }
}

tasks/init.ps1:

#!/usr/bin/env pwsh
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
    [Parameter()]
    [string]
    $name
)

Write-Host "PSEdition = $($PSEdition)"
$PSVersionTable
Write-Host "Name = $($Name)"

Appears to be intentional to not allow overriding

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I'm closing because I found much more success using Plans + Script Task. I think it's a bit weird powershell.exe is forced on windows, for non-windows management pwsh is great.

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