This has been mentioned in other hybrid topics again and again. The old-school, but easy method to run Powershell is by:
echo
ing the Powershell script into a temporary scriptThis is a sample script.
@echo off
echo powershell-command>Temp.ps1
echo another line>>Temp.ps1
rem echo the script into a temporary file
powershell -File Temp.ps1
rem execute the temporary script
del Temp.ps1
rem Optionally remove the temporary script
The method above requires tons of echo
statement if a long script is required, here is a better method suggest by @Aacini
@echo off
setlocal
rem Get the number of the "<resource>" line
for /F "delims=:" %%a in ('findstr /N "<resource>" "%~F0"') do set "start=%%a"
rem Skip such number of lines and show the rest of this file
(for /F "usebackq skip=%start% delims=" %%a in ("%~F0") do echo %%a) > Temp.ps1
powershell -File Temp.ps1
del /f /s /q Temp.ps1
goto :EOF
<resource>
PS
Powershell script
Using the POWERSHELL
command, we can execute a 1-line command directly from a batch script, without any temporary file.
Here's the syntax.
powershell.exe -Command <yourPowershellCommandHere>
You may also want to include other flags, like -Nologo
to improve the actual outcome.
This is the approach proposed by the stackoverflow's user rojo which also can handle the command line arguments :
<# : batch portion
@echo off & setlocal
(for %%I in ("%~f0";%*) do @echo(%%~I) | ^
powershell -noprofile "$argv = $input | ?{$_}; iex (${%~f0} | out-string)"
goto :EOF
: end batch / begin powershell #>
"Result:"
$argv | %{ "`$argv[{0}]: $_" -f $i++ }
called like this:
psbatch.bat arg1 "This is arg2" arg3
will produce:
Result:
$argv[0]: C:\Users\rojo\Desktop\test.bat
$argv[1]: arg1
$argv[2]: This is arg2
$argv[3]: arg3