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(PowerShell script) Self-elevate to Administrator, preserve arguments, use Windows Terminal console when possible.
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| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Self-elevate to Administrator and preserve arguments. | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| Self-elevate to Administrator, preserve arguments, use Windows Terminal console when possible. | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| # Import | |
| iwr -useb 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/boredwz/f7e908dd8d25cc8345ef2065e093d63c/raw/admin.ps1' | iex | |
| # Elevate if not admin | |
| If (-not (Admin)) {Admin -Elevate $MyInvocation.Line;return} | |
| # ADMINISTRATOR | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| iwr -useb 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/boredwz/f7e908dd8d25cc8345ef2065e093d63c/raw/admin.ps1' | iex | |
| If (!(Admin)) { | |
| Write-Warning 'Administrator rights required.';'Press [Enter] or [Y] to run as Admin...' | |
| if([Console]::ReadKey($true).Key -match '^(Enter|Y)') {Admin -Elevate $MyInvocation.Line '"echo test1"|iex;"test2"'};return | |
| } | |
| #> | |
| function Admin([switch]$Elevate, $MyInv, [string]$C) { | |
| if (!$Elevate) {return ('([{0}Principal] [{0}Identity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([{0}BuiltInRole]::Administrator)' -f 'Security.Principal.Windows'|iex)} | |
| $wt = if(gcm wt -ea 0){"\\"}else{""} | |
| $cm = ('[Console]::Title'|%{'{0}="{1}";cd -l ''{2}'';{3};{4}' -f $_,(iex $_),$pwd,($MyInv -join ';'),$C}) -replace '"',"$wt\`"" | |
| "-nol -noe -ep bypass -c"|%{if($wt){$exe="wt";$ar="powershell",$_,($cm -replace ';','\;')}else{$exe="powershell";$ar=$_,$cm}} | |
| start $exe $ar -wor "~" -v runAs | |
| } |
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