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@rannn505 Please can you merge this PR, cause everything works great except that.

Thanks :)

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Can you try my fork and then report back to us if it meets your needs?

https://github.com/BenjaminMichael/node-powershell

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don't forget you need to pass a parameter to use PowerShell Core "pwsh"

shell = require('node-powershell')
ps = new shell(usePwsh: true)

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PS to invoke powershell from the terminal (at least with my install) you have to run pwsh and not powershell, perhaps that's why?

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what versions of: node, Mac OS, node-powershell, and powershell are you on?

I would mostly be worried about what modules and/or dotnetlibraries that beautifier is dependent upon because youre using powershell on a mac.

the terminal command 'powershell' opens PS on my Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6

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Node: 8.9.1
MacOS: 10.13.1
node-powershell: 3.3.1
powershell: 6.0.0

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"PowerShell Core 6.0.0-beta.9 the binary for PowerShell Core was renamed from powershell.exe and powershell on Windows and Linux/Unix/macOS respectively to pwsh.exe and pwsh"
source: the internet

time for a pull request?

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Seems like you could make an environmental variable as a workaround but Apple had made that really tricky you have to make a plist (see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106355/setting-the-system-wide-path-environment-variable-in-mavericks)

It might be easier to uninstall and reinstall 6.0.0-beta.2 or another version

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Any update on this?

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It took me a while to understand this issue. They renamed it because Windows PowerShell and PowerShell-Core need to be able to run side by side. For this reason it makes sense to just make it an optional parameter with the default being Windows Powershell. I made a PR.

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@BenjaminMichael @rannn505 I see a PR was opened for this. Any update?

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It does. I created the shell like this (it's in coffeescript):

shell = require('node-powershell')
ps = new shell(usePwsh: true)

And it spawned fine.

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@BenjaminMichael @rannn505 any update on this?

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@szeck87 you might want to check out https://github.com/IonicaBizau/powershell

It is based on node-powershell but a little cleaner/simpler. Lacking test coverage but actively maintained and they already merged my pwsh by parameter PR.

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@szeck87 @BenjaminMichael ,
Hey friend sorry it took a long time, I was on a very long trip, I promise to look at everything that has happened since my last commit and to release a new version very soon. Thank you for your patience 🥇.

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@BenjaminMichael I gave that one a try, unfortunately I'm converting javascript to coffeescript and something is off as I keep getting data is not defined using that package.

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Just wait for Rann to merge my PR it shouldn't take long since its 1.5 lines of changes

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@rannn505 could you please merge this
@BenjaminMichael could you please put this on NPM in the mean time

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@AoiGhost i published it as an npm package called node-powershellcore

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