Run Multiple Powershell Scripts Sequentially - on a Folder - Combine Scripts into a Master Script

Question

I have 6+ scripts and growing to run on a folder, what is the best way to have them run one after the other.

I have seen and tried this thread - it did not work unfortun

Answer 1

To get the path that your script is in you can do this:

$MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition

That will show something like 'C:\Users\WP\Desktop\Scripts\Master.ps1'. From that we can do a Split-Path to get just the folder, and run Get-ChildItem on the folder to get a list of files. We'll probably want to exclude the master script, so that we don't end up in a recursive loop, so that would look something like:

$ScriptPath = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Get-ChildItem "$ScriptPath\*.ps1" | Where{$_.FullName -ne $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition}

Then we just run those through a ForEach-Object loop, and invoke the script with the call operator & as such:

$ScriptPath = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Get-ChildItem "$ScriptPath\*.ps1" | Where{$_.FullName -ne $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition} | ForEach-Object { & $_.FullName }

Edit: Hm, that wasn't filtering right. Here's a re-write that does filter out the master script correctly.

$Master = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition -Leaf
$ScriptPath = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Get-ChildItem "$ScriptPath\*.ps1" | Where{$_.Name -ne $Master} | ForEach-Object { & $_.FullName }