Allow passing just a dash as an arg to a file via pwsh - #9479
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PR Summary
When processing a file (implicitly or via
-File), it looks at the remainings args and constructs parameters to pass to the pipeline. When the first character is a-, it assumes it's a parameter and uses the remainder to be the name of the parameter. If it's a single dash, it ends up being an empty string for the name. This causes the parameter binder to throw which then causes the console host to crash.Fix is to detect that it's a single dash and pass that as an unnamed parameter which gets handled correctly.
PR Context
Fix #9362
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.h,.cpp,.cs,.ps1and.psm1files have the correct copyright headerWIP:or[ WIP ]to the beginning of the title (theWIPbot will keep its status check atPendingwhile the prefix is present) and remove the prefix when the PR is ready.