I’m trying to run a job with two different shells (powershell and pwsh).

Attempt #1

If I specify this workflow configuration

name: Test 1
on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        shell: [powershell, pwsh]
    steps:
      - name: Print shell version
        run: $PSVersionTable

The output for both the executions is the same (like if matrix.shell is not taken in account):

Run $PSVersionTable
    $PSVersionTable
    shell: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6\pwsh.EXE -command ". '{0}'"
Name Value

PSVersion 6.2.3

PSEdition Core

GitCommitId 6.2.3

OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.17763

Platform Win32NT

PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}

PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3

SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

WSManStackVersion

Attempt #2

If I specify this workflow configuration

name: Test 2
on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        shell_name: [powershell, pwsh]
    steps:
      - name: Print shell version
        shell: ${{ matrix.shell_name }}
        run: $PSVersionTable

The job isn’t executed, because of this error:

### ERRORED 07:43:52Z

Your workflow file was invalid: The pipeline is not valid. .github/workflows/test2.yml (Line: 15, Col: 16): Unrecognized named-value: 'matrix'. Located at position 1 within expression: matrix.shell_name

Is there a way to use matrix to specify the shell to be used?