Include script not working when the powershell script is invoked from C#

Question

I have a power shell script which has include script in it as below.

. "$PSScriptRoot\CheckPermissions.ps1"

When the script is invoked from c#, I am getting this error

{The term '\CheckPermissions.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.}

The script works fine when run from PS window.

Is not $PSScriptRoot variable available when script is run from c#?

Richard · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-03 10:31:20Z

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You could try using the following to get the script directory:

$scriptDir = Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path

Note that the folder path returned will end with a backslash (\).

answered Jun 3, 2015 at 10:31

Richard

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Sameer Over a year ago

Is not working for me. Actually $PSScriptRoot this works when the script is run directly from PS window and only it is not working when the script is called from c#.

Richard Over a year ago

What version of PowerShell is your C# script running? As $PSScriptRoot only works in later versions of PowerShell, you can check by outputting the host info to a text file e.g. host > "C:\HostInfo.txt"

Sameer Over a year ago

This works perfectly when run from powershell window. So version is not a problem. My version of PS is 3.

chanikya · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-18 15:41:56Z

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Try the below code

$scriptpath = "your second file path"
$psContent = @(Get-Content $scriptPath)
[string]$psCmd = $psContent -join "`n"
$secondscriptoutput = iex $psCmd
$secondscriptoutput #output returned by second file

Myinvocation will not work when ps scripts are invoked from c# code. Please mark this as answer if it works for you. Thanks!

answered Feb 18, 2016 at 15:41

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