Powershell - Within Powershell ISE run multiple line script in Powershell

Question

I have a script that runs in Powershell ISE but there is a part of that script that has to run in regular Powershell. The script that needs to run in Powershell has multiple lines.

When I try running the script like this:

<#
Some code runs up here
#>

$script = {
$PW = "Password1";
$PW = $PW | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force;
Add-SQLAssessmentTask -ManagementGroup "SOME_ID_NUMBER"  -SQLServerName $env:computername -WorkingDirectory C:\Temp\SQL -ScheduledTaskUsername domain\user -ScheduledTaskPassword $PW -Verbose;
}

$command = $script.ToString()

#Start-Process powershell -argumentlist $command

Start-Process powershell -argumentlist $script

I get the follow error:

When I run the script like this:

<#
Some code runs up here
#>

$arguments = "$PW = ""Password1""","$PW = $PW | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force","Add-SQLAssessmentTask -ManagementGroup ""SOME_ID_NUMBER""  -SQLServerName $env:computername -WorkingDirectory C:\Temp\SQL -ScheduledTaskUsername domain\user -ScheduledTaskPassword $PW -Verbose" 

Start-Process powershell -argumentlist $arguments

I get this error:

If I run each line in regular Powershell, one at a time, it works fine.

Any suggestions?

Jawad · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-15 17:24:25Z

1

$Arguments is supposed to be a script block separated by semi-colons if you want to run multiple commands.

$arguments = {"$PW = ""Password1""";"$PW = $PW | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force";"Add-SQLAssessmentTask -ManagementGroup ""SOME_ID_NUMBER""  -SQLServerName $env:computername -WorkingDirectory C:\Temp\SQL -ScheduledTaskUsername domain\user -ScheduledTaskPassword $PW -Verbose" }

Start-Process powershell -argumentlist $arguments

edited Jan 15, 2020 at 17:24

answered Jan 15, 2020 at 17:16

Jawad

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Jeremy F. Over a year ago

I had to create additional variables to hold the "SOME_ID_NUMBER" and working directory, but that did work!

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