How to execute a PowerShell script from XYplorer?

[zBernie]

Hello, I'm brand new to XYplorer. So far I'm loving it!

Can someone please tell me how I can execute a PowerShell script from XY? Maybe from a user button? I have a .ps1 script which simply outputs "hello world" to a file. This is how I've been trying:


$scriptPath = self("path");
$cmd = "Powershell -NoExit -File "C:\Users\ra-bartonbf\PowerShell\HelloWorldFile.ps1"";
msg($cmd);
run($cmd);


-Thanks

[highend]

Welcome to the forum.

The quoting is wrong.

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    $cmd = """Powershell"" -NoExit -File ""C:\Users\ra-bartonbf\PowerShell\HelloWorldFile.ps1""";
    run $cmd;

[zBernie]

Within a user defined button, the $cmd syntax did not work. However, this runret command does work. Is this syntax acceptable to use?

-Thanks

runret("%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe C:\Users\bernie\PowerShell\test.ps1");


//$cmd = """Powershell"" -NoExit -File ""C:\Users\bernie\PowerShell\test.ps1""";
//run $cmd;

[highend]

It does work from an CTB (but you didn't copy the indentation from within the code tags correctly).

In your first example you wanted the powershell to stay open to see the command output while now
you want to hide it completely?

Is your new command syntactically correct? Yeah. But recommended? Not really.

- The powershell directory is in the path anyway. No need to use the full path to call it
- Much more important: It breaks in the same second your script name or path contains a space

[zBernie]

Using the run command does not work for me. I've tried various permutations of the $cmd = line, to no avail. The runret command does work. I can't see what I am doing wrong.

-Thanks


$cmd = """powershell.exe"" -NoExit -File ""C:\Users\ra-bartonbf\PowerShell\HelloWorldFile.ps1""";
run $cmd;


runret("%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe C:\Users\ra-bartonbf\PowerShell\HelloWorld.ps1");

[highend]

I can't see what I am doing wrong.

Neither can I if you don't show what exactly you're doing? You paste the two codelines. Fine. Where? In the "On left click" field directly? After pressing the "Edit..." button? The single line edit field isn't prepared (obviously) for multiple lines...

[zBernie]

I'm simply pasting the two lines below into the "Try Script" dialog. It doesn't work for some reason. I know the HelloWorldFile.ps1 script works, and outputs text to a file. This seems like it should be straightforward.

$cmd = """powershell.exe"" -NoExit -File ""C:\Users\ra-bartonbf\PowerShell\HelloWorldFile.ps1""";
run $cmd;

[highend]

Let me quote myself:

but you didn't copy the indentation from within the code tags correctly

From the help file:

In a multi-line script all lines apart from the first line have to be indented by at least one space.

[XSreyfQT4hV6]

For anyone reading this later here is what i did.

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foreach($token, <selitems |>, "|" ) {
 $cmd = """powershell.exe"" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ""$token""";
 run $cmd;
 }

This will run any selected powershell scripts bypassing script signing.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

This was my first script so if there is anything to improve let me know.
I put an icon on my toolbar that runs it.