Passing a variable to a powershell script via command line

Question

I am new to powershell, and trying to teach myself the basics. I need to write a ps script to parse a file, which has not been too difficult.

Now I want to change i

Answer 1

Make this in your test.ps1, at the first line

param(
[string]$a
)

Write-Host $a

Then you can call it with

./Test.ps1 "Here is your text"

Found here (English)

Answer 2

Passed parameter like below,

Param([parameter(Mandatory=$true,
   HelpMessage="Enter name and key values")]
   $Name,
   $Key)

.\script_name.ps1 -Name name -Key key

Answer 3

Declare the parameter in test.ps1:

 Param(
                [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=1)]
                [string]$input_dir,
                [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
                [string]$output_dir,
                [switch]$force = $false
                )

Run the script from Run OR Windows Task Scheduler:

powershell.exe -command "& C:\FTP_DATA\test.ps1 -input_dir C:\FTP_DATA\IN -output_dir C:\FTP_DATA\OUT"

or,

 powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\FTP DATA\test.ps1' -input_dir 'C:\FTP DATA\IN' -output_dir 'C:\FTP DATA\OUT'"

Answer 4

Using param to name the parameters allows you to ignore the order of the parameters:

ParamEx.ps1

# Show how to handle command line parameters in Windows PowerShell
param(
  [string]$FileName,
  [string]$Bogus
)
write-output 'This is param FileName:'+$FileName
write-output 'This is param Bogus:'+$Bogus

ParaEx.bat

rem Notice that named params mean the order of params can be ignored
powershell -File .\ParamEx.ps1 -Bogus FooBar -FileName "c:\windows\notepad.exe"

Answer 5

Here's a good tutorial on Powershell params:

PowerShell ABC's - P is for Parameters

Basically, you should use a param statement on the first line of the script

param([type]$p1 = , [type]$p2 = , ...)

or use the $args built-in variable, which is auto-populated with all of the args.