How to run EXE in powershell with parameters, in one line

Question

I need to run a .exe with parameters, currently this takes two lines. I would like to be able to pass a string as a variable to a function, and only need to do this once.

This is how I am currently doing it, which takes two variables:

function Foo{
    $ExeToStart = "C:\Program Files\x\program.exe" 

    Start-Process $ExeToStart -ArgumentList "--arg1","--arg2"
}

Is there a way of combining this so that I can just define a variable, "y" and pass it into the function as one line similar to below?

$x = "C:\Program Files\x\program.exe -ArgumentList "--arg1","--arg2""

function Foo{
     Start-Process $x
}

Answer 1

Here is a way you can achieve what you want.

# Create an array of the program and arguments
$x = 'C:\Program Files\x\program.exe','--arg1','--arg2'

# Example with no parameters
Function Foo {
    Start-Process -FilePath $args[0][0] -ArgumentList $args[0][1..$args[0].Count]
}

# Example using parmeters
Function Foo {
    param([string[]]$program)
    $params = @{
        FilePath = $program[0]
    }
    if ($program.Count -gt 1) {
        $params['ArgumentList'] = $program[1..$program.Count]
    }
    Start-Process @Params
}

# Call the function 
Foo $x