Getting Script name in Powershell

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Is there any other way except $MyInvocation.InvocationName in powershell to get the script name? As i need to turn my script in an exe and in that case it doesnt work on that exe.

jon Z · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-01 16:31:27Z

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I'm assuming since you convert the powershell script to an executable that you are after the location of the executable. You can get it this way:

[Environment]::GetCommandLineArgs()[0]

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answered Feb 1, 2012 at 16:22

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Dave Wise Over a year ago

fwiw - if you are debugging this in ISE, the script name becomes the second parameter: [Environment]::GetCommandLineArgs()[1]

SebMa Over a year ago

Try $PSCommandPath or $MyInvocation.PSCommandPath (according to this great answer : stackoverflow.com/a/43643346/5649639)

Simon Mattes · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-30 17:35:38Z

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If you want something that works within and outside of ISE you can use

$MyInvocation.InvocationName

Since full paths and .\YourScript.ps1 can be returned you can parse the name with:

[Regex]::Match( $MyInvocation.InvocationName, '[^\\]+\Z', [System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::IgnoreCase -bor [System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::SingleLine ).Value

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Laurent CAPRANI Over a year ago

When called from within a function, $MyInvocation.InvocationName is the function's name.

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