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Since people are curious Ill explain why:

I need to build our project from the remote repo using a PowerShell script (.ps1). Iā€™m using Bash in the VSCode terminal, I have to run the .ps1 script in a new Command Prompt because the compilation takes around 5 minutes and I need my terminal for other things. To do this, the only way is to run a batch file that executes the .ps1 script.

Its an automation so I dont need to touch powershell whatsover and remain in bash terminal. Instead of opening several windows, I automated all so it only takes 1 alias to compile my shit.

The compilation also requires several inputs and "Key Presses", so I automated all of that in the Batch file.

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[ā€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or... His hacked system is working, let's not duck with it. šŸ¤£

[ā€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's absolutely acceptable. Don't fix what ain't broke.

But please don't publicly post a joke/rant about how your only option to accomplish something was through absurd hacky workarounds, when the issue is that you refused to learn the tools you have.

What we have here is the slightly more tech literate version of printing out a Word Doc so you can re-arrange, remove, and add pages physically before scanning it back in as a PDF to email someone, then complaining about it being so difficult, rather than just using one of the many many print to PDF and PDF editing/splicing tools.