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Sure, but I'd still have to implement a higher-level language, and I'm not about to do that in PowerShell.
And we already log to a database.
To be clear, I have very little experience with PowerShell. However, the idea of using PowerShell as the front-end might be worth investigation.
Edit:
Looking into developing cmdlets now -- it may be the way to go.
modified 10-Dec-17 15:25pm.
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Whoa man you're over thinking this thing. Get a grip man this [^] is what you need!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I began working on PIEBALDBASIC a few years back, before common sense called a halt.
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Common sense or hair lose? 
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I don't anticipate hair loss. My father still has his in his 80s and his father had his into his 90s.
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I was thinking more like pulling it out due to frustration?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Nah, I give up pretty easily.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: What I've come up with so far is beginning to resemble LISP.
Ew, no! Consider using a fluent syntax:
Dir("\serverx\widgetco\").List("foo*.zip").Newest().Copy("foo.zip").Extract("foo.csv");
Consider that your nudge over the edge. 
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Not a bad idea, I thought about it and thought maybe it would be harder to parse, but maybe it would be easier. So maybe FLINQ ? 
On the other hand, my fevered imagination has spewed forth the possibility of merging two pipelines together:
COPY ( MERGE ( LIST ( DIR ( "\\serverx\widgetco\" ) , "foo*.csv" ) , LIST ( DIR ( "\\servery\acme\" ) , "bar*.csv" ) ) )
But that rabbit hole leads to implementing UNION and INTERSECTION, and my eyes glaze over. YAGNI!!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: maybe FLINQ ?
Exactly: LINQ and File Directories (C#) | Microsoft Docs
Though I haven't looked into any of their linqs (harhar) it might be a start, throw in some extension methods, and voila.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: But that rabbit hole leads to implementing UNION and INTERSECTION, and my eyes glaze over.
Heck, why not -- if you stick with IEnumerable<File> or something like that, then Union, Join, and Intersect should "just work".
This could turn into a cool little library. A quick google on "file linq" did not discover any existing implementations other than that first link which seems to be cloned here.
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Marc Clifton wrote: throw in some extension methods, and voila.
Hmmm, interesting idea.
Allow the "script" to be actual calls to the Extension Methods and compile to a .net asembly -- Compiling Source Code from a String[^] -- sounds dangerous.  It doesn't require parsing on my part at all. I like it.
Edit:
Further thought leads to considering a class with the required methods and then tack the "script" onto it in a dynamically-compiled class:
using ( Flinq f = new Flinq() ) { try { f.DIR("...").LIST("...") ... ; } catch { f.LOG ( ... ) } }
Need to protect against Little Bobby Tables, but otherwise what could possibly go wrong?
modified 10-Dec-17 23:31pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: but otherwise what could possibly go wrong?
Looks good to me! 
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Dropping back and punting...
What I got working today has the scripts looking like:
DIR("C:\temp\") LIST("foo*.csv) NEWEST () DIR ("D:\data\") COPY ( "foo.csv")
This is much simpler to implement by using a regular expression to split up the segments and keep Little Bobby Tables from attacking.
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Upstate New York - outside Albany. approx. 2 inches.
Kids are looking forward to enough snow this season to make forts and snow men with. Good times.
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Friday - us too here in Atlanta Hopefully, it will be the last.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Which side of Atlanta? I'm in the northwest metro area and we got 8 inches of snow.
Only time I can remember more was the blizzard of 1993, just after my daughter's first birthday.
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Even the Netherlands has snow.
I hope it goes away soon or I can prepare for five hour traffic jams 
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Confirmed, and as you probably know it's alarm code orange.
Keep on jamming 
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Half of the year is covered in codes here.
Not that we're a country with unpredictable and harsh storms..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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About a foot outside my door, here in mid-Wales... the dog loves it!
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About an inch here - the cat loathes it! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is it just a coincidence ... A and P so close together?
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Probably - but you could also find an unrelated MacCutchan within 100 miles of where you live.
You're in Surrey? Or is that the wrong Richard MacCutchan?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"Probably"?! What else is it likely to be?
...unless...
... DADDY!!!
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OriginalGriff wrote: but you could also find an unrelated MacCutchan within 100 miles
Most unlikely actually. Apart from my relatives there are very few "MacCutchan"s in the world. Most people spell the name differently.
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