I want to prompt the user for a series of inputs, including a password and a filename. I have an example of using host.ui.prompt, which seems sensible, but I can’t understand the return. Is there a better way to get user input in PowerShell? 4 Answers 4
I’m attempting to POST to a uri, and send the parameter username=me Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://example.com/foobar -Method POST How do I pass the parameters using the method POST? 4 Answers 4
I run this code to execute PowerShell code from an ASP.NET application: System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.Runspace runspace = System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(); runspace.Open(); System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline(); pipeline.Commands.AddScript(@”\\servername\path”); pipeline.Commands.Add(“Out-String”); Collection<PSObject> results = pipeline.Invoke(); runspace.Close(); But I am getting an error: .ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details. … Read more
I am updating a PowerShell script that manages some .NET assemblies. The script was written for assemblies built against .NET 2 (the same version of the framework that PowerShell runs with), but now needs to work with .NET 4 assemblies as well as .NET 2 assemblies. Since .NET 4 supports running applications built against older … Read more
This should be a simple task, but I have seen several attempts on how to get the path to the directory where the executed cmdlet is located with mixed success. For instance, when I execute C:\temp\myscripts\mycmdlet.ps1 which has a settings file at C:\temp\myscripts\settings.xml I would like to be able to store C:\temp\myscripts in a variable … Read more
I am running a PowerShell script from within a batch file. The script fetches a web page and checks whether the page’s content is the string “OK”. The PowerShell script returns an error level to the batch script. The batch script is executed by ScriptFTP, an FTP automation program. If an error occurs, I can … Read more
I am trying to run this script in PowerShell. I have saved the below script as ps.ps1 on my desktop. $query = “SELECT * FROM Win32_DeviceChangeEvent WHERE EventType = 2” Register-WMIEvent -Query $query -Action { invoke-item “C:\Program Files\abc.exe”} I have made a batch script to run this PowerShell script @echo off Powershell.exe set-executionpolicy remotesigned -File … Read more
I have a PowerShell script for which I would like to redirect the output to a file. The problem is that I cannot change the way this script is called. So I cannot do: .\MyScript.ps1 > output.txt How do I redirect the output of a PowerShell script during its execution? 10 Answers 10
I have a PowerShell 1.0 script to just open a bunch of applications. The first is a virtual machine and the others are development applications. I want the virtual machine to finish booting before the rest of the applications are opened. In bash I could just say “cmd1 && cmd2” This is what I’ve got… … Read more
I want to create an alias of a cmdlet that doesn’t expire after I close the current session of Powershell, let’s say I have this alias : C:\Users\Aymen> New-Alias Goto Set-Location This perfectly creates the Goto alias, but I want to use it even after I close the current session, how can I achieve that. … Read more
