Self-Deleting Script turned into Exe?

[surena]

Normally, I use the command:

Remove-Item $MyINvocation.InvocationName

to self-delete a script after it's ran. But when I convert it into an EXE, I get the error:

Remove-Item: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is an empty string.

This works when it is a PS1, but no longer works as an EXE.

[davidc]

$MyINvocation.InvocationName will not work in a packaged script.

You can look at the Get-ScriptDirectory snippet so you can get an idea how to get the script path.

Here is what you would use:

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if($hostinvocation -ne $null)
{
	$hostinvocation.MyCommand.path
}
else
{
	$script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
}

Note: An executable can't delete itself while running in Windows.

David