Cross-platform utility to locate PowerShell (pwsh preferred) with snap workaround on Linux and caching for CLI tooling.
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import { realpath, stat } from 'fs/promises'
import { getPlatform } from '../platform.js'
import { which } from '../which.js'
async function probePath(p: string): Promise<string | null> {
try {
return (await stat(p)).isFile() ? p : null
} catch {
return null
}
}
/**
* Attempts to find PowerShell on the system via PATH.
* Prefers pwsh (PowerShell Core 7+), falls back to powershell (5.1).
*
* On Linux, if PATH resolves to a snap launcher (/snap/…) — directly or
* via a symlink chain like /usr/bin/pwsh → /snap/bin/pwsh — probe known
* apt/rp
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