How to use psake from a batch file? - build

What I want is a one file I can double-click that will run the required build process using psake.
I'm new to psake and PowerShell so be gentle :-).
What I have now are 3 files:
File 1: Build.bat
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File .\Build.ps1 %1
File 2: Build.ps1
Import-Module .\psake.psm1
Invoke-psake .\BuildTasks.ps1 $args
File 3: BuildTasks.ps1
task default -depends Verify, Joe
task Verify {
write-host "hello from Verify!"
}
task Joe {
write-host "hello from Joe"
}
Is there anyway to merge Build.ps1 and BuildTasks.ps1 into one file?

You should be able to do this with
powershell -Command "& {Import-Module .\psake.psm1; Invoke-psake .\BuildTasks.ps1 %*}"
which gets rid of the build.ps1 file.

Psake comes with a powershell script "psake.ps1" which wraps the call for you. It looks like:
import-module .\psake.psm1
invoke-psake #args
remove-module psake
So your batch script looks like
powershell {path-to-module}\psake.ps1 .\buildTasks.ps1

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how to have 2 output of newman with single execution

Given the following scenario:
execute collections using newman, and save it in a reportfile but meanwhile also put the standard output of the the newman so that we can see in details. (like executing normally, without saving to any report file).
So my problem is when executing the newman with option save it to a reportfile, it seems redirecting the standard output and convert it to a report file. During this execution I see nothing in the standard output at all.
As of now I can do this in two step which seems a bit unprofessional.
inside of:
ExecutePostmanCollection.ps1
...
newman run $collection -e $env --insecure -r junitfull --reporter-junitfull-export $result
...
newman run $collection -e $env --insecure --disable-unicode | Out-File -FilePath "./output.txt"
Get-Content "./output.txt"
Thank you and
Regards
CP
use cli reporter.
newman run $collection -e $env --insecure -r cli,junitfull --reporter-junitfull-export $result ...
newman run $collection -e $env --insecure -r cli --disable-unicode | Out-File -FilePath "./output.txt" Get-Content "./output.txt"

Regex in Windows Batch to automate Docker run

I am trying to automate the process of sending my temporary Amazon AWS keys as environment variables to a Docker image using Windows. I have a file, credentials.txt that contains my AWS credentials (the 3 ids are always the same, but the string values change regularly). I am using Windows command prompt.
Input:
(includes 2 empty lines at end) credentials.txt:
[default]
aws_access_key_id = STR/+ing1
aws_secret_access_key = STR/+ing2
aws_session_token = STR/+ing3
Desired output:
I need to issue the following command in order to run a Docker image (substituting the strings with the actual strings):
docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=STR/+ing1 -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=STR/+ing2 -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=STR/+ing3 my-aws-container
My idea is to try to use regex on credentials.txt to convert it to:
SET aws_access_key_id=STR/+ing1
SET aws_secret_access_key=STR/+ing2
SET aws_session_token=STR/+ing3
And then run:
docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=%aws_access_key_id% -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=%aws_secret_access_key% -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=%aws_session_token% my-aws-container
Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this?
You can parse your credentials.txt with a for /f loop to set the variables (effectively removing the spaces):
for /f "tokens=1,3" %%a in ('type credentials.txt ^| find "="') do set "%%a=%%b"
and then run the last code line from your question:
docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=%aws_access_key_id% -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=%aws_secret_access_key% -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=%aws_session_token% my-aws-container
Note: the values should not contain spaces or commas.
I've had a go in python that seems to work. Someone else may have a better answer.
I create the python file:
docker_run.py
import re
import os
myfile = 'C:/fullpath/credentials'
with open(myfile,'r') as f:
mystr = f.read()
vals = re.findall('=[\s]*([^\n]+)',mystr)
keys = ['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID','AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY','AWS_SESSION_TOKEN']
environment_vars = ''.join([' -e ' + k + '=' + v for k,v in zip(keys,vals)])
cmd = 'docker run'+environment_vars+' my-aws-container'
os.system(cmd)
Then from command prompt I run:
python docker_run.py
This succeeds in running docker
(note: I tried using exec() in the final line rather than os.system(), but got the error "SyntaxError: invalid syntax")

Raw string to a Powershell script through command line

I have powershell script which takes input from a python GUI. And the script looks like (foo.ps1):
#.\foo.ps1
[String]$UserName = $args[0]
[String]$Password = $args[1]
[String[]] $ComputerName = $args[2]
[String[]] $Users = $args[3]
Write-Output "Username is $UserName"
Write-Output "Password is $Password"
foreach ($Computer in $ComputerName) {
Write-Output "Computer is $Computer"
}
foreach ($User in $Users) {
Write-Output "Users is $User"
}
And my execution line in powershell window looks like:
PS dir>powershell -executionpolicy bypass -Command .\foo.ps1 "my_username" "my_password" "Computer1, Computer2" "User1, User2"
Problem arises when my password has special characters like '}', '{','(', ')', ',', '&', ';' need to be passed within these apostrophes. But when it contains characters like ' " `, it throws an exception: "The string is Missing the terminator: '.
How do I solve it. I use python subprocess to input that line to powershell using variables from that python script.
import subprocess
process = subprocess.Popen(['powershell.exe',"""powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File Foo.ps1 "username" "password" "computer1,computer2" "user1,user2" """], stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(process.communicate())
Expecting a simple way to address this issue.
When we enter the special characters through prompt, that is from 'read-host' line in powershell, it accepts everything without any trouble.
Is there anyway that I could automate that read-host prompt input using python subprocess ?
Try sending all the cmd arguments in a list format.
import subprocess
process = subprocess.Popen("""powershell.exe powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File Foo.ps1 "username" "password" "computer1,computer2" "user1,user2" """.split(), stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(process.communicate())

Can't enable phar writing

I am actually using wamp 2.5 with PHP 5.5.12 and when I try to create a phar file it returns me the following message :
Uncaught exception 'UnexpectedValueException' with message 'creating archive "..." disabled by the php.ini setting phar.readonly'
even if I turn to off the phar.readonly option in php.ini.
So how can I enable the creation of phar files ?
I had this same problem and pieced together from info on this thread, here's what I did in over-simplified explanation:
in my PHP code that's generating this error, I added echo phpinfo(); (which displays a large table with all sort of PHP info) and in the first few rows verify the path of the php.ini file to make sure you're editing the correct php.ini.
locate on the phpinfo() table where it says phar.readonly and note that it is On.
open the php.ini file from step 1 and search for phar.readonly. Mine is on line 995 and reads ;phar.readonly = On
Change this line to phar.readonly = Off. Be sure that there is no semi-colon at the beginning of the line.
Restart your server
Confirm that you're phar project is now working as expected, and/or search on the phpinfo()table again to see that the phar.readonly setting has changed.
phar.readonly can only be disabled in php.ini due to security reasons.
If you want to check that it's is really not done using other method than php.ini then in terminal type this:-
$ php -r "ini_set('phar.readonly',0);print(ini_get('phar.readonly'));"
If it will give you 1 means phar.readonly is On.
More on phar.configuration
Need to disable in php.ini file
Type which php
Gives a different output depending on machine e.g.
/c/Apps/php/php-7.2.11/php
Then open the path given not the php file.
E.g. /c/Apps/php/php-7.2.11
Edit the php.ini file
could do
vi C:\Apps\php\php-7.2.11\php.ini
code C:\Apps\php\php-7.2.11\php.ini
[Phar]
; http://php.net/phar.readonly
phar.readonly = Off
; http://php.net/phar.require-hash
phar.require_hash = Off
Save
Using php-cli and a hashbang, we can set it on the fly without messing with the ini file.
testphar.php
#!/usr/bin/php -d phar.readonly=0
<?php
print(ini_get('phar.readonly')); // Must return 0
// make sure it doesn't exist
#unlink('brandnewphar.phar');
try {
$p = new Phar(dirname(__FILE__) . '/brandnewphar.phar', 0, 'brandnewphar.phar');
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Could not create phar:', $e;
}
echo 'The new phar has ' . $p->count() . " entries\n";
$p->startBuffering();
$p['file.txt'] = 'hi';
$p['file2.txt'] = 'there';
$p['file2.txt']->compress(Phar::GZ);
$p['file3.txt'] = 'babyface';
$p['file3.txt']->setMetadata(42);
$p->setStub('<?php
function __autoload($class)
{
include "phar://myphar.phar/" . str_replace("_", "/", $class) . ".php";
}
Phar::mapPhar("myphar.phar");
include "phar://myphar.phar/startup.php";
__HALT_COMPILER();');
$p->stopBuffering();
// Test
$m = file_get_contents("phar://brandnewphar.phar/file2.txt");
$m = explode("\n",$m);
var_dump($m);
/* Output:
* there
**/
✓ Must be set executable:
chmod +x testphar.php
✓ Must be called like this:
./testphar.php
// OUTPUT there
⚠️ Must not be called like this:
php testphar.php
// Exception, phar is read only...
⚠️ Won't work called from a CGI web server
php -S localhost:8785 testphar.php
// Exception, phar is read only...
For anyone who has changed the php.ini file, but just doesn't see any changes. Try to use the CLI version of the file. For me, it was in /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini
Quick Solution!
Check:
cat /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini | grep phar.readonly
Fix:
sed -i 's/;phar.readonly = On/;phar.readonly = Off/g' /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini

VisualSVN post-commit hook with batch file

I'm running VisualSVN on a Windows server.
I'm trying to add a post-commit hook to update our staging project whenever a commit happens.
In VisualSVN, if I type the command in the hook/post-commit dialog, everything works great.
However, if I make a batch file with the exact same command, I get an error that says the post-commit hook has failed. There is no additional information.
My command uses absolute paths.
I've tried putting the batch file in the VisualSVN/bin directory, I get the same error there.
I've made sure VisualSVN has permissions for the directories where the batch file is.
The only thing I can think of is I'm not calling it correctly from VisualSVN. I'm just replacing the svn update command in the hook/post-commit dialog with the batch file name ("c:\VisualSVN\bin\my-batch-file.bat") I've tried it with and without the path (without the path it doesn't find the file at all).
Do I need to use a different syntax in the SVNCommit dialog to call the batch file? What about within the batch file (It just has my svn update command. It works if I run the batch file from the command line.)
Ultimately I want to use a batch file because I want to do a few more things after the commit.
When using VisualSVN > Select the Repo > Properties > Hooks > Post-commit hook.
Where is the code I use for Sending an Email then running a script, which has commands I want to customize
"%VISUALSVN_SERVER%\bin\VisualSVNServerHooks.exe" ^
commit-notification "%1" -r %2 ^
--from support#domainname.com --to "support#domainname.com" ^
--smtp-server mail.domainname.com ^
--no-diffs ^
--detailed-subject
--no-html
set PWSH=%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
%PWSH% -command $input ^| C:\ServerScripts\SVNScripts\post-commit-wp.ps1 %1 %2
if errorlevel 1 exit %errorlevel%
The script file is located on C:\ServerScripts\SVNScripts\
post-commit-wp.ps1 and I pass in two VisualSVN variables as %1 and %2
%1 = serverpathwithrep
%2 = revision number
The script file is written in Windows PowerShell
# PATH TO SVN.EXE
$svn = "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\bin\svn.exe"
$pathtowebistesWP = "c:\websites-wp\"
# STORE HOOK ARGUMENTS INTO FRIENDLY NAMES
$serverpathwithrep = $args[0]
$revision = $args[1]
# GET DIR NAME ONLY FROM REPO-PATH STRING
# EXAMPLE: C:\REPOSITORIES\DEVHOOKTEST
# RETURNS 'DEVHOOKTEST'
$dirname = ($serverpathwithrep -split '\\')[-1]
# Combine ServerPath with Dir name
$exportpath = -join($pathtowebistesWP, $dirname);
# BUILD URL TO REPOSITORY
$urepos = $serverpathwithrep -replace "\\", "/"
$url = "file:///$urepos/"
# --------------------------------
# SOME TESTING SCRIPTS
# --------------------------------
# STRING BUILDER PATH + DIRNAME
$name = -join($pathtowebistesWP, "testscript.txt");
# CREATE FILE ON SERVER
New-Item $name -ItemType file
# APPEND TEXT TO FILE
Add-Content $name $pathtowebistesWP
Add-Content $name $exportpath
# --------------------------------
# DO EXPORT REPOSITORY REVISION $REVISION TO THE ExportPath
&"$svn" export -r $revision --force "$url" $exportpath
I added comments to explain each line and what it does. In a nutshell, the scripts:
Gets all the parameters
Build a local dir path
Runs SVN export
Places files to a website/publish directory.
Its a simple way of Deploying your newly committed code to a website.
Did you try to execute batch file using 'call' command? I mean:
call C:\Script\myscript.bat
I was trying the same thing and found that you also must have the script in the hooks folder.. the bat file that is.