MacOS: Printer? / Executables? / Multiple hard-drive roots?

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Dear all,

 

I have three questions that I got stuck with !

 

Q1) How can I use PowerShell to find my personal printer which is connected to the same WIFI as my Macbook, how to configure and how can I send a file to print?

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Q2) Opening a text file from the command-line with APP: E.g (Atom and view the content of text file? (Running Executables)

 

PS: Path to my text file and the app I want to use are mentioned below!

 

For this one I tried to assign two variables then ‘Start-Process’ but nothing happened!

$MyPC = "./Desktop/Scripting/Exercises PowerShell/MyPC.txt"

$Atom = “./Users/Mido/Applications/Atom”

Start-Process $Atom++ $MyPC

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Q3) If I have two hard-drives and my main’s root is “./” what would the main root of my secondary hard-drive if i’m trying to access it from the main hard-drive?

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Any help would be appreciated :slight_smile:

 

Many thanks,

Mido

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Hi there,

What is your actual requirement?

Please refer to the help links from Microsoft docs

  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/printmanagement/get-printer?view=win10-ps
  2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/start-process?view=powershell-7
  3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-disk?view=win10-ps
1 and 3, you can also get the info using Get-CimInstance with appropriate CIM classes.

Thank you.

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[quote quote=205275]Hi there,

What is your actual requirement?

Please refer to the help links from Microsoft docs

  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/printmanagement/get-printer?view=win10-ps
  2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/start-process?view=powershell-7
  3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-disk?view=win10-ps
1 and 3, you can also get the info using Get-CimInstance with appropriate CIM classes.

Thank you.

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Dear Kiran,

 

I do not have the “Get-CimInstance” module I believe it does not exist for macOS, please correct me if i’m mistaken.

I have been trying the following commands for the printer question with no luck

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Get-Content -Path ./Desktop/Scripting/Processes.txt | Out-Printer

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It gives the following error:

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Out-Printer : No printers are installed. <p class="p1">At line:1 char:55</p> <p class="p1">+ Get-Content -Path ./Desktop/Scripting/Processes.txt | Out-Printer</p> <p class="p1">+ ~~~~~~~~~~~</p> <p class="p1">+ CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:) [Out-Printer], InvalidPrinterException</p> <p class="p1">+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Drawing.Printing.InvalidPrinterException,OutPrinterCommand.OutPrinterCommand</p>

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Even though I scanned for printers and it says it is there => Canon MX450 :Idle

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My second question is about how to open for example a ‘.txt’ file using a different app than the default one.

Like for the moment if I use the ‘start’ or the invoke-item commands, it uses the EditText app on mac.

But let’s say I want it to run the file using ‘Atom’ instead via PowerShell no manually changing the default app.

 

For the 3rd question, it is solved. Thank you!

 

I appreciate any sort of help!

 

Regards,

Mido

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Yes, you don’t see Get-CIMInstance on Mac for sure.

Check to see your target printer is set to default.

Add -Name parameter to Out-Printer and see

[pre]Get-Content -Path ./Desktop/Scripting/Processes.txt | Out-Printer -Name ‘Canon MX450’[/pre]

And the other, try this…

[pre]$MyPC = ‘./Desktop/Scripting/Exercises PowerShell/MyPC.txt’
$Atom = ‘./Users/Mido/Applications/Atom’

Start-Process -FilePath $Atom -ArgumentList $MyPC[/pre]

Thank you.