$args is a special variable, an array of all arguments passed to a function on the command line. But, $args is always treated as an array in PowerShell. And It may cause an interesting side effect when passing $args to a downstream function. Suppose we define a function...
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Figure 6 Command-Line Arguments for State Transitions SwitchDescription -StartStart the service -StopStop the service -SetupInstall itself as a service -RemoveUninstall the service (Support for the paused state isn’t implemented but would be easy to add, with the corresponding stat...
PSWindowsNativeCommandArgPassingThis is continuation of a feature we first added in 7.3. A major difference between Windows and non-Windows is how arguments are parsed particularly when quotes are involved. As more Open Source command-line tools are being used on Windows, we want to make sure ...
Command line arguments sent to a file do not send in full if the argument contains a dollar sign. I have tried every combination of escape character and quote configuration that I can think of. I am not certain if this is specific to the...
Passing arguments that contain quote characters Some native commands expect arguments that contain quote characters. PowerShell 7.3 changed the way the command line is parsed for native commands. Caution The new behavior is abreaking changefrom the Windows PowerShell 5.1 behavior. This may break scrip...
Passing local values What if we want to calculate the value of the Id parameter programmatically, instead of hard-coding it to a particular integer? Well, script blocks can declare parameters and the param block can be used to pass a value to the command that is being invoked. In the foll...
(This is done when the user uses either Confirm or WhatIf arguments.) Also notice that I am going to catch exceptions and wrap them with ThrowTerminatingError. In this sample, if anything goes wrong, it shouldn't proceed because the file open will have failed. It's usually bad form to...
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how ProcessStart parses\, which in turn is a result of how the Win32 C functionCommandLineArgvWparses command line arguments. If you're not aware, Win32 treats all arguments as a single string, and it is runtimes further up the chain that break them up into an array/list/sequence/etc...