Executing Powershell from Perl

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I have a bunch of Powershell scripts which I need to run from Perl. I have the following code but for some reason the Powershell scripts dont get invoked. I have tried both the backtick and the system command

$path = "C:/Users/PSScript.ps1";
$pwspath = "c:/windows/system32/windowspowershell/v1.0/powershell.exe";

$output = `$pwspath -command $path`;

system($pwspath -command $path);

Please help me out here.

Hint: try adding use strict; use warnings; to the top of your script and try again. — Ether
– Ether, Commented May 5, 2010 at 2:17
Are you sure you want backticks? Backticks are used to capture what is printed to console output as a result of running the command. system is more appropriate for invoking scripts. — Zaid
– Zaid, Commented May 5, 2010 at 10:20

Tom · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28 07:55:59Z

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You need to use -File instead of -Command

answered Sep 28, 2011 at 7:55

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dlamotte · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-05 13:14:08Z

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Are you sure your code is formatted correctly? Shouldn't you be using quotes?

system("$pwspath -command $path");

Backtick should work, try:

my @stdout = `$pwspath -command $path`;
print join("\n", @stdout),"\n";

edited May 5, 2010 at 13:14

answered May 5, 2010 at 1:56

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Marlin Over a year ago

hi, system() works but backtick doesnt tried the following "$pwspath -command $path"; system("$pwspath -command $path") any ideas for backtick, since I need to capture the stdout and then format it

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