Question

I’m trying to execute the command below in a PowerShell script

C:\PATH TO GPG\gpg.exe --output OUTPUTFILE.csv --batch --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt C:\PATH TO INPUT\INPUTFILE.txt < C:\PATH TO PASS\Passphrase.txt

When I assign various sections of the command to variables and then combine them in a command varible and try and execute it as follows:

$decryptCommand = "${gpg} --output ${dateStamp}.csv --batch --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt ${fileName} < ${passphraseFile}"
&$decryptCommand

I receive the following error:

The term 'XXXX' 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.

I have tried to surround various parts of the command in single and double quotes but nothing I’ve tried seems to work.

Is there something extra I should be doing to execute this command from a PowerShell script?

Answer 1

There are several problems with you script. First, you don’t need to surround variable with {}, secon – you have to pass parameters seperately, like this:

&$gpg --output $dateStamp.csv --batch --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt $fileName < $passphraseFile

The only thing I’m not sure about is < symbol. It might be the case that you will need to escape it with '