Question

I have this in a powershell

if (Test-Path env:\names)
{
    [string[]] $names= (dir env:\names).Value.Split(",") | % { $_.Trim() }
} else {
    [string[]] $names= "peter","mikael","Anders","William"
}

Write-Host -n "names: " ; [string]$names

If I would like to call it from command prompt is that possible?

I have tried this:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File MainScript.ps1 -PARAM "Peter,Mikael"

I do understand that wont work since I am looking for a env:names but how can I make it work? What I am after is that I would like to send in a parameter with names and that should be caught in something like the code above.

Answer 1

You have a complete mess here. First env:names means value of environment variable names, there shouldn’t be \.

Then, if you want you script to accept parameters – just add param(string[] $names) as first line of your script

If you want to run your script with parameters – just start powershell and type: full_path_to_script Peter,Mikael