Powershell ISE alternative

[neilx]

I was recommended against using Powershell ISE in another post. What do people use on Windows 10 to run scripts containing exiftool command?

I have noticed that PS gives meaningless errors sometimes when the script has run OK. The same script in the standard cmd prompt works without the error, but I cant face using the the cmd prompt!

[StarGeek]

If you don't want to use CMD, then you'll have to deal with PS for the most part.  The main trouble is when you try to pipe or redirect binary data, such as if you were extracting thumbnails from an image (see here).  I've encountered other strangeness at times (had a problem with double equal signs once, though I can't remember the exact circumstance), but other people seem to have no trouble.  It's fine to use PS just as long as you realize that there are probably changes you have to make to example command lines.  Of course, if you have a question you post here, you should mention what shell you are using, though that should be a given for all posts.

Other options would be the Linux Bash for Windows or CygWin, both of which should act like a normal Linux shell, but then you have to deal with the difference in the way file paths are set up (/cygdrive/c/Program Files for CygWin instead of C:\Program Files, I believe).

Then there are a variety of CMD replacements such as Yori, FireCmd, and ConEmu.

[neilx]

Thanks. That was really helpful. I use PS so I can do a little programming that includes exiftool statements. I'm not familiar enough with doing that in the cmd shell. I used to be quite a reasonable Perl programmer some years ago so I might move to one of the Perl IDEs and use the Exiftool module if I feel I need more control.