Call PowerShell script PS1 from another PS1 script inside Powershell ISE

Question

I want call execution for a myScript1 ps1 script inside a second myScript2 ps1 script inside Powershell ISE   The following code inside MyScript2 ps1  works fine from Powershell Administration  but doesn t work inside PowerShell ISE    Call myScript1 from myScript2 invoke-expression -Command   myScript1 ps1   I obtain the following error when I execute MyScript2 ps1 from PowerShell ISE      The term    myScript1 ps1  is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet  function  script file  or operable program  Check the spelling of the name  or if a path was included  verify that the path is correct and try again

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You may have found the answer for it already, but here is what I do.

I usually place this line at the beginning of my installation scripts:

if(!$PSScriptRoot){ $PSScriptRoot = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -Parent } #In case if $PSScriptRoot is empty (version of powershell V.2).

Then I can use $PSScriptRoot variable as a location of the current script(path), like in the example bellow:

if(!$PSScriptRoot){ $PSScriptRoot = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -Parent } #In case if $PSScriptRoot is empty (version of powershell V.2).  

Try {
If (Test-Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)') {
    $ChromeInstallArgs= "/i", "$PSScriptRoot\googlechromestandaloneenterprise64_v.57.0.2987.110.msi", "/q", "/norestart", "/L*v `"C:\Windows\Logs\Google_Chrome_57.0.2987.110_Install_x64.log`""
    Start-Process -FilePath msiexec -ArgumentList $ChromeInstallArgs -Wait -ErrorAction Stop
    $Result= [System.Environment]::ExitCode
} Else {
    $ChromeInstallArgs= "/i", "$PSScriptRoot\googlechromestandaloneenterprise_v.57.0.2987.110.msi", "/q", "/norestart", "/L*v `"C:\Windows\Logs\Google_Chrome_57.0.2987.110_Install_x86.log`""
    Start-Process -FilePath msiexec -ArgumentList $ChromeInstallArgs -Wait -ErrorAction Stop
    $Result= [System.Environment]::ExitCode
    }

} ### End Try block


Catch  {
    $Result = [System.Environment]::Exitcode
    [System.Environment]::Exit($Result)
   }
[System.Environment]::Exit($Result)

In your case, you can replace

Start-process... line with

Invoke-Expression $PSScriptRoot\ScriptName.ps1

You can read more about $MYINVOCATION and $PSScriptRoot automatic variables on the Microsoft site: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_automatic_variables

User · Answer

I am calling myScript1 ps1 from myScript2 ps1    Assuming both of the script are at the same location  first get the location of the script by using this command     PSScriptRoot   And  then  append the script name you want to call like this     amp    PSScriptRoot myScript1 ps1    This should work

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The current path of MyScript1 ps1 is not the same as myScript2 ps1  You can get the folder path of  MyScript2 ps1 and concatenate it to MyScript1 ps1 and then execute it  Both scripts must be in the same location      MyScript2 ps1     ScriptPath   Split-Path  MyInvocation InvocationName  amp    ScriptPath MyScript1 ps1

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This is just additional info to answers in order to pass argument into the another file   Where you expect argument  PrintName ps1  Param       Parameter  Mandatory    true        printName    Joe          Write-Host  printName   How to call the file   Param       Parameter  Mandatory    false        name    Joe           amp    Split-Path  MyInvocation InvocationName      PrintName ps1   -printName  name   If you do not do not provide any input it will default to  Joe  and this will be passed as argument into printName argument in PrintName ps1 file which will in turn print out the  Joe  string

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To execute easily a script file in the same folder  or subfolder of  as the caller you can use this     Get full path to the script   ScriptRoute    System IO Path   GetFullPath  System IO Path   Combine  PSScriptRoot   Scriptname ps1       Execute script at location   amp   ScriptRoute

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I had a similar problem and solved it this way   My working directory is a general script folder and serveral particular script folder in same root  i need to call particular script folder  which call general script with the parameter of the particular problem   So working directory is like this   Nico Scripts Script1 ps1               Script2 ps1        Problem1 Solution1 ps1                 ParameterForSolution1 config        Problem2 Solution2 ps1                 ParameterForSolution2 config   Solutions1 and Solutions2 call the PS1 in Scripts folder loading the parameter stored in ParameterForSolution  So in powershell ISE i run this command    Nico Problem1 Solution1 PS1   And the code inside Solution1 PS1 is     This is the path where my script is running  path   split-path -parent  MyInvocation MyCommand Definition    Change to root dir cd   path          script      Script Script1 PS1    parametro    Problem1 ParameterForSolution1 config    Another set of parameter Script1 PS1 can receive for debuggin porpuose  parametro     -verbose   Invoke-Expression   script  parametro

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In order to find the location of a script  use Split-Path  MyInvocation MyCommand Path  make sure you use this in the script context    The reason you should use that and not anything else can be illustrated with this example script      ScriptTest ps1 Write-Host  InvocationName    MyInvocation InvocationName Write-Host  Path    MyInvocation MyCommand Path   Here are some results    PS C  Users JasonAr    ScriptTest ps1 InvocationName    ScriptTest ps1 Path  C  Users JasonAr ScriptTest ps1  PS C  Users JasonAr      ScriptTest ps1 InvocationName    Path  C  Users JasonAr ScriptTest ps1  PS C  Users JasonAr       ScriptTest ps1  InvocationName    Path  C  Users JasonAr ScriptTest ps1   In PowerShell 3 0 and later you can use the automatic variable  PSScriptRoot      ScriptTest ps1 Write-Host  Script    PSCommandPath Write-Host  Path    PSScriptRoot    PS C  Users jarcher    ScriptTest ps1 Script  C  Users jarcher ScriptTest ps1 Path  C  Users jarcher

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I had a problem with this   I didn t use any clever  MyInvocation stuff to fix it though   If you open the ISE by right clicking a script file and selecting edit then open the second script from within the ISE you can invoke one from the other by just using the normal   script ps1 syntax  My guess is that the ISE has the notion of a current folder and opening it like this sets the current folder to the folder containing the scripts  When I invoke one script from another in normal use I just use   script ps1  IMO it s wrong to modify the script just to make it work in the ISE properly

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One line solution    amp    Split-Path  MyInvocation InvocationName      MyScript1 ps1

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How do you run PowerShell built-in scripts inside of your scripts    How do you use built-in scripts like   Get-Location pwd ls dir split-path   etc      Those are ran by your computer  automatically checking the path of the script   Similarly  I can run my custom scripts by just putting the name of the script in the script-block    sid ps1 is a PS script I made to find the SID of any user   it takes one argument  that argument would be the username echo   sid ps1 jowers     returns something like  gt  S-X-X-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXX-XXXX     sid ps1 jowers  Replace  S   X     returns same as above but with X instead of S    Go on to the powershell command line and type   gt   profile   This will return the path to a file that our PowerShell command line will execute every time you open the app   It will look like this   C  Users jowers OneDrive Documents WindowsPowerShell Microsoft PowerShellISE profile ps1   Go to Documents and see if you already have a WindowsPowerShell directory  I didn t  so    gt  cd  Users jowers Documents  gt  mkdir WindowsPowerShell  gt  cd WindowsPowerShell  gt  type file  gt  Microsoft PowerShellISE profile ps1   We ve now created the script that will launch every time we open the PowerShell App   The reason we did that was so that we could add our own folder that holds all of our custom scripts  Let s create that folder and I ll name it  Bin  after the directories that Mac Linux hold its scripts in    gt  mkdir  Users jowers Bin   Now we want that directory to be added to our  env path variable every time we open the app so go back to the WindowsPowerShell Directory and   gt  start Microsoft PowerShellISE profile ps1   Then add this   env path       Users jowers Bin    Now the shell will automatically find your commands  as long as you save your scripts in that  Bin  directory   Relaunch the powershell and it should be one of the first scripts that execute   Run this on the command line after reloading to see your new directory in your path variable    gt   env Path   Now we can call our scripts from the command line or from within another script as simply as this     customScript ps1 arg1 arg2        As you see we must call them with the  ps1 extension until we make aliases for them  If we want to get fancy

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I submit my example for consideration  This is how I call some code from a controller script in the tools I make  The scripts that do the work also need to accept parameters as well  so this example shows how to pass them  It does assume the script being called is in the same directory as the controller script  script making the call     CmdletBinding    param    Parameter Mandatory    true    string     Computername    Parameter Mandatory    true    DateTime   StartTime    Parameter Mandatory    true    DateTime   EndTime     ZAEventLogDataSplat           Computername     Computername      StartTime        StartTime      EndTime          EndTime     amp    PSScriptRoot Get-ZAEventLogData ps1   ZAEventLogDataSplat   The above is a controller script that accepts 3 parameters  These are defined in the param block  The controller script then calls the script named Get-ZAEventLogData ps1  For the sake of example  this script also accepts the same 3 parameters  When the controller script calls to the script that does the work  it needs to call it and pass the parameters  The above shows how I do it by splatting

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