Calling a PowerShell script from a batch file

Question

I'm trying to run a PowerShell script from a batch file, and it runs successfully on my machine. However when I put it on the server, it throws this error:

"Missing expression after unary operator '-'.
At line:1 char:2
+ -E <<<< xecutionPolicy remotesigned -file 'E:\Misdemeanor
Queue\Concatenate.ps1'

I've tried different combinations of the execution policy, but nothing seems to work. I have to run this on Windows Server 2003, SP2, and it uses v1.0 of PowerShell (which is what I wrote this in). There is a space in the folder name that houses the batch file & ps1 file. Here is the batch file that calls the ps1 file named Concatenate.ps1:

 - @echo off &setlocal
del "E:\Misdemeanor Queue\Index3.txt"
set "search=.tif"
set "replace=|"
set "textfile=index2.txt"
set "newfile=Index3.txt"

(for /f "delims=" %%i in ('findstr "^" "%textfile%"') do (
    set "line=%%i"
    setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
    set "line=!line:%search%=%replace%!"
    echo(!line!
    endlocal
))>"%newfile%"
type "%newfile%"


PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& 'E:\Misdemeanor Queue\Concatenate.ps1'"

Here is the concatenate.ps1 file:

$File1 = Get-Content "E:\Misdemeanor Queue\Index3.txt" $File2 = Get-Content "E:\Misdemeanor Queue\index1.txt" $File3 = @() For($a=0;$a -lt $File1.count;$a++){ $File3+=$File1[$a].trim()+$File2[$a].trim() } $File3 | Out-File "E:\Misdemeanor Queue\indexFINAL.txt"

It's supposed to call this ps file, concatenate the Index3 file and the Index1 file, and create a txt file called indexFINAL.

What should I do?

Keith Hill Keith Hill · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-21T01:47:20

That's the error you would get on PowerShell 1.0 where the -ExecutionPolicy parameter is not supported. So I suspect your server has version 1.0 installed. If a PowerShell prompt comes up with a copyright date of 2006 then it is version 1.0. Can you upgrade the server to at least v2 to get support for that parameter?

Calling a PowerShell script from a batch file

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