Vista - Powershell.exe command-line syntax

Howdy,

Hoping to try and accomplish something like this:

powershell.exe -command "& {c:\script.ps1; if (!$?) {read-host -
prompt "An error occurred`nPress any key to exit"}}"

but can't seem to get the syntax quite right. Not sure if it will even
work, even once I get the syntax out of the way.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Shawn.

"EnigmaticSoul" <sferrier@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175050381.667262.15690@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Howdy,
>
> Hoping to try and accomplish something like this:
>
> powershell.exe -command "& {c:\script.ps1; if (!$?) {read-host -
> prompt "An error occurred`nPress any key to exit"}}"

This works for me:

230> powershell.exe -command C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1;if (!$?) {
Read-host -prompt "Errored occurred`nPress any key" }
doh!
At C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1:1 char:6
+ throw <<<< "doh!"
Errored occurred
Press any key:

--
Keith

That works for me when I launch it from within powershell - but not
when I'm trying to launch it from cmd.exe. I don't get the read-host
prompt when I launch it from there. Any thoughts as to why this would
behave differently?

Thanks,
Shawn.

On Mar 28, 12:56 am, "Keith Hill" <r_keith_h...@mailhot.nospamIdotcom>
wrote:
> "EnigmaticSoul" <sferr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1175050381.667262.15690@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Howdy,
>
> > Hoping to try and accomplish something like this:
>
> > powershell.exe -command "& {c:\script.ps1; if (!$?) {read-host -
> > prompt "An error occurred`nPress any key to exit"}}"
>
> This works for me:
>
> 230> powershell.exe -command C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1;if (!$?) {
> Read-host -prompt "Errored occurred`nPress any key" }
> doh!
> At C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1:1 char:6
> + throw <<<< "doh!"
> Errored occurred
> Press any key:
>
> --
> Keith

Further to this, the following works for me:
powershell -command write-host "test"; c:\test2.ps1

but this does not:
powershell -command c:\test2.ps1; write-host "test"

It's the latter that I need to figure out somehow.

On Mar 28, 2:11 pm, "EnigmaticSoul" <sferr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That works for me when I launch it from within powershell - but not
> when I'm trying to launch it from cmd.exe. I don't get the read-host
> prompt when I launch it from there. Any thoughts as to why this would
> behave differently?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn.
>
> On Mar 28, 12:56 am, "Keith Hill" <r_keith_h...@mailhot.nospamIdotcom>
> wrote:
>
> > "EnigmaticSoul" <sferr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:1175050381.667262.15690@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > Howdy,
>
> > > Hoping to try and accomplish something like this:
>
> > > powershell.exe -command "& {c:\script.ps1; if (!$?) {read-host -
> > > prompt "An error occurred`nPress any key to exit"}}"
>
> > This works for me:
>
> > 230> powershell.exe -command C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1;if (!$?) {
> > Read-host -prompt "Errored occurred`nPress any key" }
> > doh!
> > At C:\Users\Keith\bar.ps1:1 char:6
> > + throw <<<< "doh!"
> > Errored occurred
> > Press any key:
>
> > --
> > Keith

"EnigmaticSoul" <sferrier@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175106290.829504.193740@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Further to this, the following works for me:
> powershell -command write-host "test"; c:\test2.ps1
>
> but this does not:
> powershell -command c:\test2.ps1; write-host "test"
>
> It's the latter that I need to figure out somehow.

I was able to get this to work from cmd:

C:\Users\Keith>powershell -command write-host "hi";write-host
"there";read-host
-prompt 'Press any key'
hi
there
Press any key:


Note that I had to use single quotes around the prompt string.

--
Keith