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Suyog
Suyog

Reputation: 3

PowerShell script throwing syntax error

I am running a PowerShell script as follows:

$url = "http://api.weatherunlocked.com/api/forecast/29.36,47.97?app_id=****&app_key=****";
$req = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$req.Method ="GET"
$req.ContentLength = 0
$req.Timeout = 600000
$resp = $req.GetResponse()
$reader = new-object System.IO.StreamReader($resp.GetResponseStream())
$reader.ReadToEnd() | Out-File weatherOutput.json

It's giving the following error:

run.sh: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
run.sh: line 2: `$req = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 997

Answers (2)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200473

In a Unix environment use wget or curl.

url="http://api.weatherunlocked.com/api/forecast/29.36,47.97?app_id=****&app_key=****"
wget -O weatherOutput.json $url

If you want the data echoed to STDOUT just replace the filename with -. You may also want to add the parameter -q to suppress informational/progress output.

wget -qO - $url

Or use curl, which writes the data to STDOUT by default.

Upvotes: 0

Frode F.
Frode F.

Reputation: 54971

It looks like you're trying to run a PowerShell script in UNIX considering the error starts with run.sh. Powershell code can only be run on Windows machines With PowerShell installed (built in from Win7+, separate install for xp and vista).

Try running your script like using this command on a Windows-machine:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\myscript.ps1"

Upvotes: 3

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