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    <p>I am connecting to another computer using powershell remoting, really nice. can do lots, but how do I edit a file?</p> <blockquote> <p>PS C:\Users\guutlee> <strong>Enter-PSSession -ComputerName appprod</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>cd \myapp</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\myapp></p> </blockquote> <p>what can I do to open a file editor on a file on the remote machine? </p> <blockquote> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\myapp> edit app.config</p> </blockquote> <p>so edit "filename" just seems to hang, from powershell.exe or from powershell_ise.exe</p> <p>The only thing I can think of is back out of the pssession and "start \webprod\c$\inetpub\myapp\web.config", which would open visual studio. </p> <blockquote> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\myapp> exit</p> <p>PS C:\Users\guutlee> <strong>start \agobuild\c$\myapp\app.config</strong></p> <p>PS C:\Users\guutlee> <strong>Enter-PSSession -ComputerName appprod</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>cd \myapp</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\myapp> <strong>myapp.exe</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Of course with this I have to re-find the file, hope that the c$ share is available and accessible, and the reconnect my pssession and re-find my working directory when I want to go on. It doesn't seem very elegant.</p> <p>I could maybe wrap this is a function, but having a hard time wrapping my head around that..</p> <p>so how do I conveniently edit a file with a remote pssession?</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>kbrimington's post got me thinking me about the -X option to ssh. probably would be an awesome thing for powershell sessions to be able to forward windowed apps back to the original windowing environment...</p> <p>but still I'd be happy just to edit the file.</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>tests using vi, emacs, cmd and edit</p> <blockquote> <p>PS C:\Users\Meredith> <strong>Enter-PSSession -ComputerName appprod</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>C:\vim\vim72\vim filename.txt</strong></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>C:\emacs-23.2\bin\emacs.exe -nw filename.txt</strong></p> <p>emacs.exe : emacs: standard input is not a tty</p> <pre><code>+ CategoryInfo \: NotSpecified: (emacs: standard input is not a tty:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId \: NativeCommandError </code></pre> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>cmd</strong></p> <p>Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]</p> <p>Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</p> <p>C:\Users\guutlee\Documents></p> <p>[appprod]: PS C:\Users\guutlee\Documents> <strong>edit filename.txt</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>vi and edit hang (Control-C to get a prompt back)</p> <p>cmd runs, producing a prompt, but immediately exits back to the powershell prompt</p> <p>emacs produces the error (standard input is not a tty)</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>Jered suggests pulling the file back locally to edit. I embellished his answer to copying using pssessions rather than UNCs (perhaps this is what he intended)</p> <blockquote> <p>PS C:\Users\Meredith> <strong>Invoke-Command -Session $ps -ScriptBlock {get-content c:/inetpub/myapp/web.config} > web.config</strong> </p> <p><em>edit web config</em></p> <p>PS C:\Users\Meredith> <strong>get-content web.config | Invoke-Command -Session $ps -ScriptBlock {set-content c:/inetpub/myapp/web.config}</strong> </p> </blockquote> <p>Potentially we could run the invoke-commands in either direction, local to remote or remote back to local. </p>
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    1. COThis doesn't answer how to conveniently edit a file, but is an explanation of the hanging behavior, so I'll post as a comment. Your session appears to hang because a remote session will not virtualize windowed applications for you; that is, your edit session would be visible to you in Remote Desktop if you were connected via terminal services.
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