Shim

A small program that calls the executable configured in a <name of itself>.shim file.

This is a helper program for Scoop, the Windows command-line installer.

Shim File Format

path = <path to executable without quotes>
args = <arguments>

Usage

The *.shim file must have the same name as the shim.exe.

New-Item -Path test.shim -Value 'path = C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe'
Copy-Item -Path .\build\shim.exe -Destination .\test.exe
.\test.exe