{"id":3593,"date":"2013-05-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/21\/powertip-create-a-powershell-script-block-on-the-fly\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-create-a-powershell-script-block-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-a-powershell-script-block-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create a PowerShell Script Block on the Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Create a Windows PowerShell script block on the fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I convert a string into a Windows PowerShell script block?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the static Create<\/strong> method from the [scriptblock]<\/strong> class:<\/p>\n

PS C:> [scriptblock]::Create(“this is a string”) | gm<\/p>\n

   TypeName: System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Name                    MemberType Definition<\/p>\n

—-                    ———- ———-<\/p>\n

CheckRestrictedLanguage Method     void CheckRestrictedLanguage(System.Collection..<\/p>\n

Equals                  Method     bool Equals(System.Object obj)<\/p>\n

GetHashCode             Method     int GetHashCode()<\/p>\n

GetNewClosure           Method     scriptblock GetNewClosure()<\/p>\n

GetObjectData           Method     void GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serializatio..<\/p>\n

GetPowerShell           Method     powershell GetPowerShell(Params System.Object[..<\/p>\n

GetSteppablePipeline    Method     System.Management.Automation.SteppablePipeline..<\/p>\n

GetType                 Method     type GetType()<\/p>\n

Invoke                  Method     System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection[psob..<\/p>\n

InvokeReturnAsIs        Method     System.Object InvokeReturnAsIs(Params System.O..<\/p>\n

ToString                Method     string ToString()<\/p>\n

Ast                     Property   System.Management.Automation.Language.Ast Ast ..<\/p>\n

Attributes              Property   System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Attribu..<\/p>\n

File                    Property   string File {get;}<\/p>\n

IsFilter                Property   bool IsFilter {get;set;}<\/p>\n

Module                  Property   psmoduleinfo Module {get;}<\/p>\n

StartPosition           Property   System.Management.Automation.PSToken StartPosi..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Create a Windows PowerShell script block on the fly.  How can I convert a string into a Windows PowerShell script block?  Use the static Create method from the [scriptblock] class: PS C:> [scriptblock]::Create(“this is a string”) | gm    TypeName: System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock   Name                    MemberType Definition —-                    ———- ———- CheckRestrictedLanguage Method     void CheckRestrictedLanguage(System.Collection.. Equals                  Method     bool Equals(System.Object obj) GetHashCode             […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Create a Windows PowerShell script block on the fly.  How can I convert a string into a Windows PowerShell script block?  Use the static Create method from the [scriptblock] class: PS C:> [scriptblock]::Create(“this is a string”) | gm    TypeName: System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock   Name                    MemberType Definition —-                    ———- ———- CheckRestrictedLanguage Method     void CheckRestrictedLanguage(System.Collection.. Equals                  Method     bool Equals(System.Object obj) GetHashCode             […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}