It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

We need to automatically read this information without our intervention. This is where you sometimes see people get lazy and add passwords in plain text into the script ... PowerShell doesn't have a ...

Here’s how it works. A script is a collection of instructions written to a text file (using the ".ps1" extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to run different actions.