In a powershell script I need to start the process powershell and tell it to run the script foo.ps1 like so:
start-process powershell C:\foodir\foo.ps1
But I ran into problems when I needed the script foo to be run with parameters. I tried some code like this:
start-process powershell (C:\foodir\foo.ps1 -paramforfoo test)
but this simply freezes the script when it gets to this line and throws no errors. I think it is trying to pass the parameter test to the powershell process and not to the script foo. How can I run this script with parameters?
Try using quotes to collect your command. E.g.
Start-Process powershell ".\Untitled3.ps1 -testparam 'hello world'"
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I have written simple batch script to replace some text in a file, when executed via command line but when those commands are copied to .bat file execution stops after powershell command. Any idea how to execute powershell commands in batch file?
arco444's answer worked for me in comments:
You just call powershell.exe with no parameters so it starts an interactive session. If you were to type exit your batch script would continue. Use the -command switch to execute whatever it is you want to. And please edit your question and include the code there. Also You need to put the powershell command in quotes. i.e. powershell -command "get-content file.cs"
We are migrating perl script to powershell script.
In Perl the code is as shown below
$rc='D:\\EmailConnector\\run.bat> $EmailConnector_log;';
I tried as shown below but not working
StartProcess "cmd.exe" "/c D:\EmailConnector\run.bat> $EmailConnector_log"
When I tried as shown below the .bat script ran, but I want to update the log file. Could you help me on this.
StartProcess run.bat -workingdirectory "D:\EmailConnector"
The .bat file consist of jar file for email functionality. But we want to get log in log file.
Use the call operator (&), like this:
& 'D:\EmailConnector\run.bat' > $EmailConnector_log
The return value of the batch script is automatically put into the variable $LastExitCode.
Is that what you mean?
Start-Process "cmd" -ArgumentList '/c','D:\EmailConnector\run.bat' -WorkingDirectory "D:\EmailConnector"
or this one if you need another argument for logfile
Start-Process "cmd" -ArgumentList '/c','D:\EmailConnector\run.bat','EmailConnector_log' -WorkingDirectory "D:\EmailConnector"
Or, since there are no spaces in the path, you can just execute the batch file directly from PowerShell:
D:\EmailConnector\run.bat > $EmailConnector_log
This is one of the advantages of PowerShell being both a "shell" and a "scripting language". Execution of batch, cmd, vbs, exe files is straightforward - usually. Parameter passing can be an issue but these days that is easily solved with the stop parsing operator: --%.
I have a PowerShell script that takes an argument/command and executes well in PowerShell. I am looking at setting up a batch script to run following commands as is to mimic PowerShell
(-config is a function that's defined within script)
C\temp\power_t1.ps1 -config d:\temp\dirlist.txt
I wrote a batch script something like
ECHO OFF
POWERSHELL.EXE -file "C\temp\power_t1.ps1 -config d:\temp\dirlist.txt"
but this doesn't seem to be working.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Ruben
The script file and the arguments for the script file are separate arguments for powershell.exe. If you look at powershell.exe /?, under -File, you see:
File must be the last parameter in the command, because all characters typed after the File parameter name are interpreted as the script file path followed by the script parameters.
Try:
POWERSHELL.EXE -File "C\temp\power_t1.ps1" -config d:\temp\dirlist.txt
Basically, treat everything after the -File parameter more or less as though you were writing it in PowerShell with the call operator (&).
I have the following scripts:
runTest - sets up the environment for a running a python script
runEnv - runs a python script that parses a file a starts a program.
I want to write a powerShell command that runs the runTest script and wait for it to return.
In a cmd shell, if I just do
start runTest.bat %ARGS%
It works as expected, that is it return the command once the runTest script returned.
However, if I try the following powerShell command:
Start-Process runTest.bat -ArgumentList $arg1 -Wait
It does not ever return.
What am I missing here ?
make sure the arguments are comma separated.
e.g. if %ARGS% expands to a1 a2 a3 $arg1 should bea1,a2,a3
Does anyone know how to execute a PowerShell script from SSIS? I have created the script and it works from from the command line. The script takes a couple of command line parameters, which work fine when called from cmd.exe.
I'm using an Execute Process Task in SSIS and cannot get the script file to execute. I'm using expressions to pass in the name of the script and the command line arguments. The task is returning an incomplete string token error.
From VS to launch PSH with an extra script (for a Cmdlet project) I use the following commandline:
powershell -noexit -command ". ./Startup.ps1"
The -noexit will keep the instance around (so you wouldn't want that), putting all the real commands in a script to be dot-sourced avoids a really long command line.
Go to Execute Process Task Editor -> Process tab and set the following options:
Executable - C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Arguments - -File ".\PowershellScript/ps1" "arg_1_value" "arg_2_value" ... "arg_n_value"
Refer to the below screenshot: