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How to combine multiple Windows Service PowerShell commands into a single statement?

I need to stop and then remove a Windows Service and the following PowerShell commands work successfully:

Get-Service "$ServiceName" | Stop-Service 
Get-Service "$ServiceName" | Remove-Service

I think it's possible to combine this into a single line of code, but in my PowerShell research the multiple piping to pass commandlet values to the next operation, or the use of a semicolon didn't work:

Get-Service "$ServiceName" | Stop-Service | Remove-Service  # Does not work
Get-Service "$ServiceName" | Stop-Service; Remove-Service # Does not work

Is there a way to combine these statements into a single line, or at least use the value of Get-Service to perform those operations without having to call it 2x?

Solution

  • Stop-Service is one of those cmdlets that consumes the object. So, you'd have to supply it the -PassThru switch to allow the object to continue down the pipeline:

    Get-Service "$ServiceName" | 
    Stop-Service -PassThru | 
    Remove-Service

    As for your last example, the semicolon (;) is a means of statement termination in PowerShell, so you're essentially executing 2 commands where Remove-Service doesn't have anything to reference.