Question

I have a script that turns out a UI with variable inputs and places these variables into a .txt. I need to be able to call parts of the text file into another script. IE:

Text File Reads
UserID: username

I need to separate this line and call “username” as a variable in another script so the script will read:

import-module ActiveDirectory
$id = "username"
$ADLocation = ($id.ParentContainer)
$hoou = "OU=User,OU=Office,OU=win7,DC=company,DC=corp"
get-aduser $id
Move-ADObject -Identity $ADLocation -TargetPath $hoou

Can someone help?

Answer 1

Can you store the variables as PowerShell variables in a .ps1 file?

$userId = "username"

Then you could simply dot-source the file:

. C:\path\to\vars.ps1

Update: Since you can’t use PowerShell format you have to parse the input file. If the line with the user information looks like you mentioned above

UserID: username

you could do something like this to extract the username and assign it to a variable:

$username = Get-Content C:\vars.txt `
              | ? { $_ -match '^\s*UserID:\s*' } `
              | select -First 1 `
              | % { ($_ -split ':\s*', 2)[1] }