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I have been trying to get this powershell snippit working in UiPath and can’t seem to. It is giving the following error below. If I copy that directly from below and paste it in the PS console, it works perfectly. This is the snippit of code I use in the commandText:
"Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq " + Chr(34) + ProcessName + Chr(34) + “} | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue”

Kill Process: The term ‘Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq “chrome”} | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

What am I doing wrong here? I also have a screenshot below of the entire thing. Thanks

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@mick.pletcher

Can you try below approach?

  1. save this powershell code in a text file
  2. use read text file activity and save output
    in a string variable
  3. use invoke powershell activity with properties as below:
    a) under command text, provide the name of that string variable
    b) check is script
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@mick.pletcher

You can also try as below in command text directly.

“Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq ‘chrome’} | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue”

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Hi @mick.pletcher

I think straight quotes issue try below past at notepad then check quotes then use in UiPath,

"Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq " + Chr(34) + ProcessName + Chr(34) + “} | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue”

Also, ensure ProcessName is a string variable and doesn’t contain extra quotes.

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Happy Automation

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So I finally got it to work. I ended up replacing the variable with ‘chrome’.

“Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq ‘chrome’} | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue”

It still errored out. I then checked IsScript and it now works. Thanks for the help

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@mick.pletcher

Glad to hear issue resolved.

Kindly close the topic by marking post that helped as solution.

Regards
Sonali

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