Question

I’m automating some tasks and ran into an issue that I haven’t been able figure out. Basically I’m trying to run database queries that use keys in Powershell. Example:

.\SQLite.exe -key $key $database < $commandsTXT

However I’m forced to use this expression because Powershell doesn’t like spaces and the < character.

.\SQLite.exe -key `"$key`" `"$database`" `"<`" `"$commandsTXT`"

I have two questions. 1) Can I make this less ugly? 2) Why am I getting the error, “Too many options”.

Thanks!

Answer 1

How about this?

gc $commandsTXT | & .\SQLite.exe -key $key $database

This will pipe the contents of $commandsTXT into SQLite. I’m assuming $key and $database are strings.