Invoking powershell cmdlets from C#

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Length, -gt and 10000 are not parameters to Where-Object. There is only one parameter, FilterScript at position 0, with a value of type ScriptBlock which contains an expression. 

PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create();
ps.AddCommand("Get-ChildItem");
ps.AddCommand("where-object");
ScriptBlock filter = ScriptBlock.Create("$_.Length -gt 10000")
ps.AddParameter("FilterScript", filter)

If you have more complex statements that you need to decompose, consider using the tokenizer (available in v2 or later) to understand the structure better:

    # use single quotes to allow $_ inside string
PS> $script="Get-ChildItem | where-object -filter {$_.Length -gt 1000000 }"
PS> $parser = [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]
PS> $parser::Tokenize($script, [ref]$null) | select content, type | ft -auto

This dumps out the following information. It’s not as rich as the AST parser in v3, but it’s still useful:

    Content                   Type
    -------                   ----
    Get-ChildItem          Command
    |                     Operator
    where-object           Command
    -filter       CommandParameter
    {                   GroupStart
    _                     Variable
    .                     Operator
    Length                  Member
    -gt                   Operator
    1000000                 Number
    }                     GroupEnd

Hope this helps.

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