How to pass arguments to a remote powershell script?

Question

I have a PowerShell script statically hosted on my website and I want to run it on my machine without manually downloading it. So I do this:

iwr https://mywebsite/test.ps1 | iex

Which works perfectly until you don't need to pass any arguments. But if I need to use arguments what options do I have?

As a workaround I can use variables instead of arguments like so:

$arg=$true; iwr https://mywebsite/test.ps1 | iex

but this is not ideal.

Is there any better way to do this?

Maximous Black · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-04 08:53:59Z

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Create a ScriptBlock from the script file and execute that:

& ([scriptblock]::Create((iwr https://mywebsite/test.ps1))) -param1 123 -param2 "Hello there"

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