Excercise 23: How do I configure my terminal? W.10

xquiin · April 22, 2018, 8:10pm

(Jumps off cliff) life was great!

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 5:24pm

Thank you for asking this. I signed up to the forum because I had the same exact issue!
I am disappointed with Powershell in this matter as well.

xquiin · April 23, 2018, 5:58pm

@Alfredo13 if find an aternative powershell or terminal that I can download send me a link please!

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 6:22pm

@xquiin I have been using Visual Studio code, which let you use the Powershell console inside of it and you can get the right output, as Zed said Atom and visual studio code are base on the web. However I will be moving along with the exercise since he said this will be as good as it gets using Powershell for this exercise.

This image below shows you how the output in the terminal looks like if you use it within visual studio code:

Maybe your editor has the same option of using Powershell within it

Hope this help in any way

xquiin · April 23, 2018, 6:23pm

I thought i’d get the same results as I originally did on windows powershell. Thanks for the heads up! @Alfredo13

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 6:27pm

not a problem!!

xquiin · April 23, 2018, 6:29pm

Still no results. I guess I wont be able to give lesson 23 a try. @Alfredo13

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 6:39pm

Try to set it to work with utf-8 encoding, hit the bottom right where I marked with the red circle.
Maybe that helps!

xquiin · April 23, 2018, 6:52pm

Didn’t work - I guess my laptop isn’t capable of displaying utf-8. It’s okay. I’ll get to it somehow. :’(

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 6:57pm

hmm!! I am kind of new as well, I guess that’s as much as I can help. I am using python 3.6, I don’t know if you are or if it would make a difference, but It wouldn’t hurt to double check and see if that makes a difference!

xquiin · April 23, 2018, 7:00pm

im 3.5 / 3.6. Everyone is telling me to download different types of powershell, etc. but at this point I’ll just leave this lesson on queue and get back to it once I feel i’m ready to tackle it once again. I’m sticking to zeds motto. take what I don’t understand in regards to functions etc. and research. eventually everything will fall in place! But thanks alfredo!! Hey do you have discord?? we can help each other along the way

Alfredo13 · April 23, 2018, 7:20pm

oh yeah, I have Powershell 5.1, try that and over. and that’s what I am doing as well. I have never heard of it, but I 'll check into it and try to build an account. sound like a good idea!

zedshaw · April 24, 2018, 10:14pm

Yes, that is most likely @xquiin but if you got this far in Ex23 then go ahead and move on.

xquiin · April 26, 2018, 3:04am

Will do then. By the way will you be uploading more practice tests? It would be pretty cool

nageshv.command · July 8, 2018, 9:13am

@xquiin I signed up to this forum just for this same issue. I am using Windows power shell for my practice and get the output same as yours. Did you get any alternatives. I am kind of stuck in Exercise 23 and was hoping someone would help me with this. @zedshaw Any help is appreciated.

io_io · July 8, 2018, 9:20am

Can’t help you with Windows, I am using Linux. But try using VS Code, see how it works.

nageshv.command · July 8, 2018, 9:22am

@io_io Thanks for the response. Will try that and update here.

zedshaw · July 10, 2018, 1:31am

Hi @nageshv.command, there actually is a thread on here for alternatives to Powershell for this very reason:

Windows PowerShell Alternatives

Try one of those out and see if it works better.

nageshv.command · July 10, 2018, 8:38am

Thanks @zedshaw for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this alternative did not work. I tried both ConEmu and cmder and still getting the output same as powershell one.

zedshaw · July 11, 2018, 4:30pm

Well, looks like you should just skip it for now. This is one of the reasons pushing to use unicode everywhere was a bad idea. It actually isn’t everywhere. You don’t have to get this working to do the rest of the book.