Getting started instructions fail
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Start with dsc/docs-conceptual/dsc-3.0/overview.md and the linked get-started instructions, then reproduce the reported dsc resource get command in PowerShell. Update the instructions so the command runs without the unexpected-argument error, and verify the corrected getting-started flow.
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Description
Type of issue
Code doesn't work
Feedback
Getting started instructions fail to work properly.
In this part of the document:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/get-started/?view=dsc-3.0#get-the-current-state-of-a-resource
PS C:\Windows\System32> dsc resource get --resource $resource.type --input $instance
error: unexpected argument 'NT\\\\CurrentVersion
}' found
Usage: dsc.exe resource get [OPTIONS] --resource <RESOURCE>
Page URL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/overview?view=dsc-3.0
Content source URL
Author
@michaeltlombardi
Platform Id
3d84f5db-e174-af66-b5ec-b353f87e07dc
Document Id
7befffa4-ef78-f531-1a36-ecce7355978c
- Dominant language
- PowerShell
- Stars
- 61
- Forks
- 50
- Avg merge
- 37m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
Getting set up
Starts the project's dev container in your browser, under your own GitHub account.
- No Dockerfile or Docker Compose file
- Has a pull request template
- Read the contributing guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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