I have this PowerShell command that I run from directly from the PowerShell terminal on my Windows 10 system and it works great.

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Get-AppxPackage | % { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -verbose }

I'm trying to create a batch file to automate this PowerShell and I'm having trouble. I tried a bunch of different things but I'm way off in my testing.

I'm wondering if someone has some advice or examples of running PowerShell commands with batch files and using parameters.

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Batch script that accepts arguments

Here's a batch script with arguments that are set as variables, and those variables passed to a PowerShell script and executed. You can execute a PowerShell script with batch this way.

Batch Script Example

Scale the batch arguments up with subsequent SET arg#=%~#

@ECHO ON
SET arg1=%~1
SET arg2=%~2
SET arg3=%~3
SET arg4=%~4
SET PSScript=C:\Users\User\Desktop\Test.ps1
SET PowerShellDir=C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
CD /D "%PowerShellDir%"
Powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '%PSScript%' '%arg1%' '%arg2%' '%arg3%' '%arg4%'"
EXIT /B

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Powershell script that accepts arguments

Scale the PowerShell arguments up with subsequent $arg#=$args[#]

Example PowerShell Script

$arg1=$args[0]
$arg2=$args[1]
$arg3=$args[2]
$arg4=$args[3]
Write-Host "$arg1 is a beauty!!"
Write-Host "$arg2 is cool!!"
Write-Host "$arg3 has body odor!!"
Write-Host "$arg4 is a beast!!"

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Tying it together

• Pass arguments to the batch script:

• c:\users\user\desktop\test.cmd "Princess" "Joe" "Akbar" "WeiWei"

• Pass arguments to the PowerShell script:

• Powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& 'C:\Script\Path\psscript.ps1' 'Princess' 'Joe' 'Akbar' 'WeiWei'

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Supporting Resources

• Command Line arguments (Parameters)

  %* in a batch script refers to all the arguments (e.g. %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 ...%255) only arguments %1 to %9 can be referenced by number.

• PowerShell Parameters / Arguments

• The call operator (&)

  The call operator (&) allows you to execute a command, script or function.

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I solved creating a script , .ps1 file , in Powershell ISE and after this I went to Powershell window and type this command to allow script to run : Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned and create a .bat file with this line : Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File "ps1_file_path\ps1_file_name.ps1" and all works fine.

You can run PowerShell commands from cmd/bat files by passing the commands as an argument to the powershell command. Make you batch file look like this. Note, I have not checked this in relation to the quotations—specifically how the single quote plays with the internal variables and double quotes.

powershell -command “Get-AppxPackage | ForEach-Object { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “”$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml”” -verbose }”

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