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I would like to have a shortcut in SendTo that points to a PowerShell script such that all selected items in File Explorer are passed to the PowerShell script as arguments. This would be extremely useful for me to be able to define custom tasks in PowerShell.

e.g. If I have a shortcut Zip to backup folder.lnk in SendTo. I select multiple items (files and folders) in File Explorer then right-click > SendTo > 'Zip to backup folder', all of the files and folders that I selected are then passed as arguments to the PowerShell script (as .fullname paths is maybe easiest) from where I can perform multiple PowerShell operations on the selected items.

How can I setup a shortcut in shell:SendTo that can pass the selected File Explorer items to a PowerShell script?

I see some things here and here, but one is a cludge with Cmd (a pure PowerShell method is probably more appropriate in 2022) and one is more about full context menu items.

YorSubs
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The shortcut in your "SendTo" folder can have this target:

  • for Windows PowerShell: 
    "%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -File "FullPathToYourScript.ps1"
  • for PowerShell 7+: 
    "%ProgramFiles%\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -File "FullPathToYourScript.ps1"

When the "Send to" menu item is invoked, the system appends the full paths of the selected files to the command. In the script, use the automatic $args array variable to get the file paths.

An example of how you can get the number of selected files and loop over the paths:

"Received $($args.Count) files:"

foreach( $path in $args ) {
    "Processing file: $path"

}

Source : Pass the names of the selected files from "Send To" menu to powershell script.

harrymc
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