Why am I unable to get the name of the current running script when packaged as an EXE?

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Typically in my scripts, I use the following to get the name of the current script (without the extension):

$baseName = (Get-Item $PSCommandPath).BaseName

For some reason, this (and every other way I can think of to get the name of the running script) is not working when the script is packaged as an executable. I am using Powershell Pro Tools with VS Code to package the script. While I could just hard code the base code, I would prefer not to. Is there anything I can do to get around this? Any way to get the name of the executable, even though it is in reality a script?

Thanks

Hmm, that's interesting... I wonder if you'd have to to read it as a subexpression, or it's just not taking the variable period. — Abraham Zinala
– Abraham Zinala, Commented Feb 21, 2021 at 4:50
Using PSPTools, or PS2EXE, is the same result. Take a step back for a moment and think about your use case. You are checking for a script path, but running an executable, which is a process, not a script. So, getting the command path of your executable means looking at your executable process specific. What are you doing with that name, thus the need to capture it? — postanote
– postanote, Commented Feb 21, 2021 at 5:10
Does this answer your question? Is there a way to properly access the isnetworkdeployed property from a complied EXE (using Quest PowerGUI)? — iRon
– iRon, Commented Feb 21, 2021 at 9:54

Harlan · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-21 13:30:58Z

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Ended up using $baseName = [System.Diagnotics.Process]::GetCurrentProcess.Name. That seemed to do the trick.

answered Feb 21, 2021 at 13:30

Harlan

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