My Environment

While for serious development I use Linux VMs, for explorations/hobbies, I use the base Windows 7 on my command line from git-bash - it's enough for basic scripting things, plus I tend to use git anyway, and I don't like Powershell.

The script

#!/bin/sh
function d() {
    echo "\$ $*"
    $*
}

function win_info() {
    systeminfo | grep "\(OS Name\|OS Manufacturer\|System Type\|Locale\)"
}

REPRO_FOLDER=bugrepro
d win_info
d python --version
d pip freeze
d git --version
d grep ^ -nH `find $REPRO_FOLDER -name \*.py`
d python -m unittest discover $REPRO_FOLDER
d ls .testr* -l
d cat .testr.conf
d testr run $REPRO_FOLDER
d testr run

Running ./bugrepro.sh 2>&1 | tee bugrepro.txt  > /dev/null produces the following output (cropped, you can see the full output here):

$ win_info
OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 
OS Manufacturer:           Microsoft Corporation
System Type:               x64-based PC
System Locale:             en-us;English (United States)
Input Locale:              en-us;English (United States)
$ python --version
Python 2.7.4
$ pip freeze
extras==0.0.3

Things I learned

While this took somewhat longer than expected (and writing this post wasn't even planned!) and I haven't even reported the actual bug yet (Yak shaving...), but I don't mind - especially because I did all this while recovering from a nasty cold :)

• for cmd.exe, the ver and systeminfo commands are pretty neat and there are more commands: type help
• wrote my first blog post in reStructuredText since it's a better fit for including snippets (executable documentation is a pet peeve of mine!)

Open Questions (aka: do I want to shave further yaks?!):

• cmd.exe /C doesn't seem to behave as one would expect it when invoked from git-bash (msysgit, 1.8.1) - it doesn't exit and the execution to continue requires an exit command!

• I always want to do metaprogramming in bash - how could I display the body of a bash function? I'm thinking of something similar to what one does with alias

  $ alias foo='echo foo'
  $ foo
  foo
  $ alias foo
  alias foo='echo foo'
  

• is there a better way for passing arguments in bash? I ended up doing grep ^ because I went crazy trying to escape find... -exec...\;. and making the script use #!/bin/bash -x would be an overkill here, and I just want to echo back the command that was executed...