Powershell Day by Day: Customizing Scripts with Parameters


In this article, I want to show how I customize scripts that are useful in my daily work by using parameters. This allows me to use one script over and over with slight changes.

I will start with a look at how I write scripts, and then look at the ways that you can adapt them to use parameters in your own work. I’ll talk briefly about why parameters are useful and then look at simple parameters, naming them, and using defaults.

Script Execution in Files

I tend to write scripts to solve a particular task. Each script is its