Marc Magnin said:Toolsmith said:*snip*Hello,
I'm replying to this old post because it helped me to find a way to dynamically call / run program requiring arguments like :
C:\Program files\Program\program.exe /verysilent /norestart /LoadInf=".\conf.ini"
This work if I write directly the full command in powershell like :
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& C:\Program files\Program\program.exe /verysilent /norestart /LoadInf=".\conf.ini"
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Great!
But I have no idea of the command in advance... Heck!
So I tried several things like :
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& $fullCommandString
& $commandString $argsString
. $commandString $argsString
. $quotedCommandString $quotedArgsString
powershell -command "& {" $quotedCommandString $quotedArgsString "}"
invoke-item $commandString $argsString
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etc........
but I still had errors caused by space in "Program files" or slash of arguments etc...
The way I found is to pass a string for the command and an array of string for arguments :
(here I directly wrote the command in the code by in reality, $command is feeded from and XML file)
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$command = "C:\Program files\Program\program.exe /verysilent /norestart /LoadInf='.\conf.ini'"
if($command -match "(?<appPath>.*\.[A-Za-z]+\s)(?<appArgs>.*)"){
$args = [regex]::Split($Matches.appArgs.trim(), "\s" )
& $Matches.appPath.trim() $args
}
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Hope thats helps.
Marc Magnin,
Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ?!
I'have just found a better way by using the [diagnostics.process] class cause I need to wait the end of execution :
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if($command -match "(?<appPath>.*\.[A-Za-z]+\s)(?<appArgs>.*)"){
$com =$Matches.appPath.trim()
$args = $Matches.appArgs.trim()
[diagnostics.process]::start($com, $args).WaitForExit()
}
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Marc Magnin,
Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ?!
