How to run a PowerShell script from a batch file

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Eka picture Eka · Oct 12, 2013 · Viewed 773.3k times · Source

I am trying to run this script in PowerShell. I have saved the below script as ps.ps1 on my desktop.

$query = "SELECT * FROM Win32_DeviceChangeEvent WHERE EventType = 2"
Register-WMIEvent -Query $query -Action { invoke-item "C:\Program Files\abc.exe"}

I have made a batch script to run this PowerShell script

@echo off
Powershell.exe set-executionpolicy remotesigned -File  C:\Users\SE\Desktop\ps.ps1
pause

But I am getting this error:

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Answer

Joey picture Joey · Oct 12, 2013

You need the -ExecutionPolicy parameter:

Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File  C:\Users\SE\Desktop\ps.ps1

Otherwise PowerShell considers the arguments a line to execute and while Set-ExecutionPolicy is a cmdlet, it has no -File parameter.

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