Where to save scripts

[shepnasty]

Went to VMWorld and attended PowerCLI session. I am a scripting NOOB and found a script that I want to run. I saved it to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts

But when I go to run the script POWERCLI says it doesn't recognize the name of the script file. I am guessing this is because it isn't looking in the right spot. What am I doing wrong??

[RvdNieuwendijk]

If your script is called MyScript.ps1 and stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts you can run the script with:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts"
.\MyScript.ps1

Or you can do:

&"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\MyScript.ps1"

Regards, Robert

[LucD]

If you downloaded the script from a website it could be that the execution policy in PowerShell is not set correctly.

You can change the execution policy with

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

or even

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

which is of course a certain security risk.

Perhaps you could include the complete error message you're getting ?

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[shepnasty]

So you are saying I have to type the path everytime i want to run a script? There isn't a way to say this is where all of my scripts live?

[shepnasty]

I did run those commands during install. That is not the issue here.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You could automate this by placing a 'cd <folder>' in your profile.

See Profile: Autostart Scripts for all the details on profiles.

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