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Christopher Radar San Souci
Christopher Radar San Souci

Reputation: 111

Linux powershell command from terminal returns command not found

I have a Linux box running Ubuntu Server 16.04 with Powershell on it, from the Linux terminal if I run:

sudo powershell (Invoke-Webrequest http://ipinfo.io/json | ConvertFrom-Json).ip

I get an error saying it is formatted incorrectly and expected a ')' at the end. if I remove the () and just try to convert from JSON it throws a could not find the command ConvertFrom-Json.

That said if I actually go into powershell and run the original command it works perfectly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1990

Answers (2)

Christopher Radar San Souci
Christopher Radar San Souci

Reputation: 111

I figured it out need to wrap the command like this

sudo powershell '(Invoke-Webrequest http://ipinfo.io/json | ConvertFrom-Json).ip'

thank you for your help!

Upvotes: 3

Jeff Zeitlin
Jeff Zeitlin

Reputation: 10799

I haven't used PowerShell on Linux (yet), but on Windows you'd need

powershell -Command { (Invoke-WebRequest http://ipinfo.io/json | ConvertFrom-JSON).ip }

Upvotes: 2

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