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Using powershell call native command-line app and capture STDERR

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Mar 15, 202614737 views

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I'm using a port of a cygwin tool on Windows which writes normal status messages to STRERR. This produces ugly output when run from PowerShell: Is there a better way? P.S. I intend to post one solution I've found and compare it to answers from others.

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PS> dos2unix.exe -n StartApp.sh StartApp_fixed.sh
dos2unix.exe : dos2unix: converting file StartApp.sh to file StartApp_fixed.sh in UNIX format ...
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No, alas. This ugliness is an by-design feature of Powershell :( If an application prints to standard error (and anything else is listening), then Powershell wraps each line in an obfuscating 'NativeCommandError' object. See https://stackoverflow.co…

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Using powershell call native command-line app and capture STDERR

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