chain commands

Is there a way to "chain" commands in powershell?

For example:

Clear-host <then> Write-host some text <then> $Variable = "text" <then>
Write-host $Variable

This is just a simple example. The reason I ask is that I would like to be
able to pass three commands to be run one after the other to a powershell
command, without having to write a script all the time.

A more complex example would be:

powershell Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin
<then> new-mailcontact -Identity forward-SomeUser -ExternalEmailAddress
joe@joe.com <then> set-mailbox -Identity SomeUser -forwardingaddress
forward-SomeUser

Right now I have to write a PS script that gets passed the two variables,
and then run the script. I'd like to be able to just run the powershell
command straight up with the commands all on one line.

Using the Pipes does not work, as I've tried that one already. I remember in
CMD you could use the & to "chain" commands together.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Clear-host; Write-host some text; $Variable = "text"; Write-host $Variable

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greetings
dreeschkind

"GodOfLions" wrote:

> Is there a way to "chain" commands in powershell?
>
> For example:
>
> Clear-host <then> Write-host some text <then> $Variable = "text" <then>
> Write-host $Variable
>
> This is just a simple example. The reason I ask is that I would like to be
> able to pass three commands to be run one after the other to a powershell
> command, without having to write a script all the time.
>
> A more complex example would be:
>
> powershell Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin
> <then> new-mailcontact -Identity forward-SomeUser -ExternalEmailAddress
> joe@joe.com <then> set-mailbox -Identity SomeUser -forwardingaddress
> forward-SomeUser
>
> Right now I have to write a PS script that gets passed the two variables,
> and then run the script. I'd like to be able to just run the powershell
> command straight up with the commands all on one line.
>
> Using the Pipes does not work, as I've tried that one already. I remember in
> CMD you could use the & to "chain" commands together.
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

That works, thank you a lot for that helps me out with some bothersome issues.

Where is the semi-colon ( feature documented? I couldn't find mention of
it when I looked around.

"dreeschkind" wrote:

> Clear-host; Write-host some text; $Variable = "text"; Write-host $Variable
>
> --
> greetings
> dreeschkind
>
> "GodOfLions" wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to "chain" commands in powershell?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > Clear-host <then> Write-host some text <then> $Variable = "text" <then>
> > Write-host $Variable
> >
> > This is just a simple example. The reason I ask is that I would like to be
> > able to pass three commands to be run one after the other to a powershell
> > command, without having to write a script all the time.
> >
> > A more complex example would be:
> >
> > powershell Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin
> > <then> new-mailcontact -Identity forward-SomeUser -ExternalEmailAddress
> > joe@joe.com <then> set-mailbox -Identity SomeUser -forwardingaddress
> > forward-SomeUser
> >
> > Right now I have to write a PS script that gets passed the two variables,
> > and then run the script. I'd like to be able to just run the powershell
> > command straight up with the commands all on one line.
> >
> > Using the Pipes does not work, as I've tried that one already. I remember in
> > CMD you could use the & to "chain" commands together.
> >
> > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

I've only seen PowerShell's statement separator ';' mentioned once in the
Help contents. It's in the second example of Get-ExecutionPolicy help's
content:

(((get-help Get-ExecutionPolicy).examples).example)[1]

You can read a bit more about it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...injection.aspx

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Kiron

"GodOfLions" wrote:

> Where is the semi-colon ( feature documented? I couldn't find mention of
> it when I looked around.

Unfortunately, it seems that this is missing in the help.
However, many programming/scripting languages (Pascal, C, C++, Java,
JavaScript, C# etc.) use the semi-colon as command delimiter/end-of-line
character. There are many things that are borrowed from other languages, but
also some unique syntax elements. All the details of the PowerShell language
(and much more) is covered in Bruce Payette's book "PowerShell in Action". He
is the key designer of the PowerShell language.

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greetings
dreeschkind