Powershell – How to run a PowerShell script as a job in Jenkins

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This sounds like a simple question, but I haven't been able to work it out after looking online. I basically want to execute a PowerShell script (e.g. script.ps1) in Jenkins and report success/failure.

Try 1: Run following as "Execute Windows Batch Command"

powershell -File c:\scripts\script.ps1

This starts up as expected, but it quits after a few seconds.

Try 2: Run following as "Execute Windows Batch Command"

powershell -NoExit -File c:\scripts\script.ps1

This runs the whole script successfully, but it never stops. I had to manually abort the script.

Best Answer

Well, there is a PowerShell plugin, which is wrapping the shell anyway. I use this on my server, executing scripts in standard notation:

powershell -File test001.ps1

It works without any quirks.

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Powershell – Determine installed PowerShell version

Use $PSVersionTable.PSVersion to determine the engine version. If the variable does not exist, it is safe to assume the engine is version 1.0.

Note that $Host.Version and (Get-Host).Version are not reliable - they reflect the version of the host only, not the engine. PowerGUI, PowerShellPLUS, etc. are all hosting applications, and they will set the host's version to reflect their product version — which is entirely correct, but not what you're looking for.

PS C:\> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
4      0      -1     -1

Windows – How to run a PowerShell script

Launch Windows PowerShell, and wait a moment for the PS command prompt to appear
Navigate to the directory where the script lives
```
PS> cd C:\my_path\yada_yada\ (enter)
```
Execute the script:
```
PS> .\run_import_script.ps1 (enter)
```

What am I missing??

Or: you can run the PowerShell script from cmd.exe like this:

powershell -noexit "& ""C:\my_path\yada_yada\run_import_script.ps1""" (enter)

according to this blog post here

Or you could even run your PowerShell script from your C# application :-)

Asynchronously execute PowerShell scripts from your C# application

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Powershell – Determine installed PowerShell version

Windows – How to run a PowerShell script

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