passing parameters from powershell script to another

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I've investigated this forum. But do not seem to understand it good enough to find my answer. I'm absolutely new at Powershell.

I've a situation that I've started a ps1-script and need to execute another ps1-script to start in the background with passing parameters from the first script to the second.

Something like this (script1.ps1):

$var1 = "p1 (string value)"
$var2 = "p2 (string value)"
$var3 = "p3 (string value)"
$var4 = 4 # numeric value

$counter = 1

while ($counter -le $var4)
{
    #call to script2.ps1 with passing the $var1 through $var4 as
    #parameters so that script2.ps1 executes as a background process
    #and works with the received parameters $var1 through $var4
    # ??
    $counter= $counter + 1
}

exit
########################################

I can't find 1 way to pass the parameters and start script2.ps1 in the background.

Really hoping that someone can help me.

THIA, Wim

why don't you want to pass them as array and just process them one by one in the script? — 4c74356b41
– 4c74356b41, Commented Apr 25, 2017 at 17:21

Aaron Bertrand · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-09 22:11:16Z

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WimM · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-28 05:30:33Z

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This did the trick for me.

$var1 = "p1 (string value)"
$var2 = "p2 (string value)"
$var3 = "p3 (string value)"
$var4 = 4 # numeric value

$counter = 1
while ($counter -le $var4)
{

    $Params = "-Param1 $var1 -Param2 $var2 -Param3 $var3"
    $Script = [scriptblock]::create("d:\temp\scriptname.ps1 $Params")
    Start-Job -ScriptBlock $Script

    $counter = $counter+1
}

exit

answered Apr 28, 2017 at 5:30

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