Powershell Execute remote exe with command line arguments on remote computer

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I ve searched all over and tried different variations of commands  but I am still not there yet   My goal is to run an exe that already resides on a remote machine and pass in command line arguments   I ve tried invoke-command  but I can t seem to get my syntax to recognize the arguments   Methods tried    Win32 Process Create   Invoke-Command Start-Process  diagnostics process   start Invoke-WmiMethod   From my tests  the closest I can get is with the following command    command    program exe -r param  Invoke-Command -ComputerName  server -ScriptBlock   command    The command completes without error or return code  but on the remote machine  it did not run with arguments   I ve played around with single double quotes to see if any change  but none

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Are you trying to pass the command line arguments to the program AS you launch it? I am working on something right now that does exactly this, and it was a lot simpler than I thought. If I go into the command line, and type

C:\folder\app.exe/xC:\folder\file.txt

then my application launches, and creates a file in the specified directory with the specified name.

I wanted to do this through a Powershell script on a remote machine, and figured out that all I needed to do was put

$s = New-PSSession -computername NAME -credential LOGIN
    Invoke-Command -session $s -scriptblock {C:\folder\app.exe /xC:\folder\file.txt}
Remove-PSSession $s

(I have a bunch more similar commands inside the session, this is just the minimum it requires to run) notice the space between the executable, and the command line arguments. It works for me, but I am not sure exactly how your application works, or if that is even how you pass arguments to it.

*I can also have my application push the file back to my own local computer by changing the script-block to

C:\folder\app.exe /x"\\LocalPC\DATA (C)\localfolder\localfile.txt"

You need the quotes if your file-path has a space in it.

EDIT: actually, this brought up some silly problems with Powershell launching the application as a service or something, so I did some searching, and figured out that you can call CMD to execute commands for you on the remote computer. This way, the command is carried out EXACTLY as if you had just typed it into a CMD window on the remote machine. Put the command in the scriptblock into double quotes, and then put a cmd.exe /C before it. like this:

cmd.exe /C "C:\folder\app.exe/xC:\folder\file.txt"

this solved all of the problems that I have been having recently.

EDIT EDIT: Had more problems, and found a much better way to do it.

start-process -filepath C:\folder\app.exe -argumentlist "/xC:\folder\file.txt"

and this doesn't hang up your terminal window waiting for the remote process to end. Just make sure you have a way to terminate the process if it doesn't do that on it's own. (mine doesn't, required the coding of another argument)

User · Answer

sb   ScriptBlock  Create   command   Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock  sb   This should work and avoid misleading the beginners

User · Answer

sb    scriptblock   create  command

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I have been trying to achieve this by using 1 row single entry but I ended that Invoke command did not worked successfully because it is killing the process immediately after starting despite it can work if you are entering the session and waiting enough before exiting   The only working way I could find  for example  to run a command with arguments and space on the remote machine HFVMACHINE1  running Windows 7  is the following     WMICLASS    HFVMACHINE1 ROOT CIMV2 win32 process   Create  c  Program Files  x86  Thinware vBackup vBackup exe -v HFSVR12-WWW

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Did you try using the -ArgumentList parameter   invoke-command -ComputerName studio -ScriptBlock   param    myarg   ping exe  myarg   -ArgumentList localhost      http   technet microsoft com en-us library dd347578 aspx  An example of invoking a program that is not in the path and has a space in it s folder path   invoke-command -ComputerName Computer1 -ScriptBlock   param   myarg   amp   C  Program Files program exe  -something  myarg   -ArgumentList  myArgValue    If the value of the argument is static you can just provide it in the script block like this   invoke-command -ComputerName Computer1 -ScriptBlock    amp   C  Program Files program exe  -something  myArgValue

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