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It is very simple. You just need to create a new instance of System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock and use Create() method. PowerShell code $scriptBlock1 = { Get-ChildItem } Write-Verbose -Message $scriptBlock1.GetType().FullName -Verbose $scriptBlockString = $scriptBlock.ToString() Write-Verbose -Message $scriptBlockString.GetType().FullName -Verbose $scriptBlock2 = [ScriptBlock]::Create($scriptBlockString) Write-Verbose -Message $scriptBlock2.GetType().FullName -Verbose # Execute& $scriptBlock2 Output VERBOSE: System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock VERBOSE: System.String VERBOSE: System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock

There are situations where you need to create a script block, save it into variable and then execute it once or multiple times. Simply said, [ScriptBlock] is just an anonymous function so if you do this: $scriptBlock = { $someVar } & $scriptBlock Then you will get someVar variable from the current scope or from the […]