Run command as Rest API - body of the API call documentation not clear

[anindya5]

I was following this documentation and trying to run a simple shell script in a vm using this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/virtual%20machines%20run%20commands/runcommand#runcommandinputparameter

But what needs to be the content of the body of the post request is not clear. The commandID can be RunShellScript but where doe we provide the script value.

script: 'scriptname'
script: 'sh scriptname'

and other each resulting in

{
"error": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Error converting value "/home/adminwm/quick-python-test.sh" to type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]'. Path 'script', line 3, position 52.",
"target": "runCommandInput.script"
}
}

[anindya5]

I can use run command from portal and azure cli, but nt as rest api

[Et3rnal]

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/runCommand?api-version=2020-06-01

BODY:
{ "commandId": "RunPowerShellScript", "script": [ "c:\\testps.ps1 paramHere", ], "parameters": [ { "name": "arg1", "value": "not working" } ] }

This is what I was able to do, the parameters don't work if you use $arg1 but you can just pass it after the file location.

Executing the script directly didn't work for me.

[koralski]

To pass arg1 to the script you need to define that parameters on top of the script:
script: [ "param([string]$arg1,[string]$arg2);c:\testps.ps1 $arg1 $arg2" ]

[koralski]

I was following this documentation and trying to run a simple shell script in a vm using this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/virtual%20machines%20run%20commands/runcommand#runcommandinputparameter

But what needs to be the content of the body of the post request is not clear. The commandID can be RunShellScript but where doe we provide the script value.

script: 'scriptname'
script: 'sh scriptname'

and other each resulting in

{ "error": { "code": "BadRequest", "message": "Error converting value "/home/adminwm/quick-python-test.sh" to type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]'. Path 'script', line 3, position 52.", "target": "runCommandInput.script" } }

script is an array of strings to support multiline in json. Try using:
script: ['./scriptname']