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• Interactive menu with submenu and descriptions
  3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 29 Jun 2023

  When making menus in the terminal in PowerShell, I like to use JSON files so that I can use embedded key/value pairs to create/store variables, commands or any other piece of data that could be useful in a selected action. Recently I have moved towards putting multiple 'menu' JSON files into one JSON file to contain the main menu and subsequent menus. I have also made some tweaks to the overall presentation of the menu. Take it for a drive and implement it in your own scripts if you like it! To modify the menu, all you have to do is modify the JSON file. In the future, I am sure there will be better logic to not limit the menu to just a main menu and submenu, along with other features I have rattling around in my box of rocks head. https://github.com/L-McG/PowerShell/tree/new-menu-style/Mini-u

• Compare-Json
  3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 23 Jun 2023

  I just wanted to share something with the community should somebody else find as much use in this as I have. Some time ago I put together a script that recursively compares two JSON files and returns a difference report. My primary use case for this was to validate the migration of a virtual infrastructure as defined by thousands of lines of JSON with variable depth objects. The nice thing about having a difference report generated is that I could automate any remediations required post-migration. At the time of writing this script, I couldn't find a solution that met my requirements so should such a solution exist in PowerShell, well, I at least had fun writing a recursive function. 🙃 https://github.com/L-McG/PowerShell/tree/master/CompareJson

• How to add a Function inside a function
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 14 Dec 2022
• Trying to create a multi-select menu to choose which flags a function gets called with?
  2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 7 Dec 2022

  I like to generate CLI menu with JSON files. I use the names of the files as the selections in the main menu then each object with the JSON file has a name that is presented as a selection in the sub-menu. I use a simple function to dynamically generate and display the menus. A nifty thing that you can do by having your menu options as JSON objects is that you can store all kinds of data in each object to be later used anyway you want based on a menu selection. I put together a little example project on my github account if you want to take a look at it and maybe get some more ideas: https://github.com/L-McG/PowerShell/tree/master/Mini-u

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