Feb 24, 2015 · I have two PowerShell files. a.ps1 and b.ps1. At a center point in a.ps1 I want to start executing code in b.ps1 and terminate a.ps1 script. How to do it considering that both files are located in the same folder?

Feb 12, 2010 · Create a shortcut to your Powershell script on your desktop; Right-click the shortcut and click Properties; Click the Shortcut tab; In the Target: section, make sure you specify powershell.exe -f before your script path. This will enable Run as Administrator option in the Advanced... Tab. Click Apply; Click Advanced; Select Run as Administrator

When I try to execute my PowerShell script I get this error: File C:\\Common\\Scripts\\hello.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help

Jan 21, 2021 · Then execute the script elevated from that local copy instead. Execute the Start-Process Powershell a little differently than you were executing it for it to take the action of the script logic while running elevated too. Add the ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File parameters and run the script after that for it to work.

Feb 9, 2023 · You can use the call operator to execute scripts using their filenames. The example below shows a script filename that contains spaces. When you try to execute the script, PowerShell instead displays the contents of the quoted string containing the filename. The call operator allows you to execute the contents of the string containing the filename.

Mar 24, 2013 · When writing PowerShell scripts, I noticed when certain cmdlets encounter problems they bring up an interactive prompt, Remove-Item on a non-empty directory being an example. This is deadly when attempting to automate tasks, I'd much rather the action just fail and either throw an exception or return a bad return code so that the entire script ...

Aug 19, 2023 · A string passed to Command is still executed as PowerShell code, so the script block curly braces are often not required in the first place when running from cmd.exe. To execute an inline script block defined inside a string, the call operator & can be used:

May 24, 2016 · I placed the following commands into a batch file to reset Edge (which has been giving some problems from time to time). The batch file was then run at Administrator level. Please note the triple quotes in the powershell line. This example may clarify things for those trying to run a powershell command from a "cmd" command line.

Mar 2, 2021 · I solved creating a script , .ps1 file , in Powershell ISE and after this I went to Powershell window and type this command to allow script to run : Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned and create a .bat file with this line : Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File "ps1_file_path\ps1_file_name.ps1" and all works fine.

May 28, 2020 · When I run that same .PS1 script from command prompt using powershell testscript_writefile.ps1, I get: Name Value ---- ----- PSVersion 5.1.14393.3471 PSEdition Desktop How can I execute a Powershell script AS Powershell 7 instead of Powershell 5?