Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Splatting to avoid escaped end-of-line

The benefit of splatting is most obvious when working with commands that expect a larger number of parameters.

This first example uses the Windows PowerShell module ScheduledTasks to create a fairly basic task that runs once a day at midnight:

$taskAction = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute pwsh.exe -Argument 'Write-Host "hello world"'$taskTrigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At '00:00:00'Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName 'TaskName' -Action $taskAction -Trigger $taskTrigger -RunLevel 'Limited' -Description 'This line is too long to read'

It is possible to spread the command out, in an attempt to make it easier to read, by escaping the end-of-line character, for example:

$taskAction = New-ScheduledTaskAction ...