Running CMD command in PowerShell

Question

I am having a bunch of issues with getting a PowerShell command to run  All it is doing is running a command that would be run in a CMD prompt window   Here is the command    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Configuration Manager AdminConsole bin i386 CmRcViewer exe  PCNAME  I have tried the following with no success  I have tried many iterations of this to try and get one that works  Syntax is probably all screwed up     TEXT    textbox Text   textbox is where the user enters the PC name   CMDCOMMAND    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Configuration Manager AdminConsole bin i386 CmRcViewer exe  Start-Process    CMDCOMMAND   TEXT   iex -Command    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Configuration Manager AdminConsole bin i386 CmRcViewer exe    TEXT    The command will just open SCCM remote connection window to the computer the user specifies in the text box

User · Answer

To run or convert batch files externally from PowerShell (particularly if you wish to sign all your scheduled task scripts with a certificate) I simply create a PowerShell script, e.g. deletefolders.ps1.

Input the following into the script:

cmd.exe /c "rd /s /q C:\#TEMP\test1"

cmd.exe /c "rd /s /q C:\#TEMP\test2"

cmd.exe /c "rd /s /q C:\#TEMP\test3"

*Each command needs to be put on a new line calling cmd.exe again.

This script can now be signed and run from PowerShell outputting the commands to command prompt / cmd directly.

It is a much safer way than running batch files!

User · Answer

You must use the Invoke-Command cmdlet to launch this external program  Normally it works without an effort   If you need more than one command you should use the Invoke-Expression cmdlet with the -scriptblock option

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For those who may need this info   I figured out that you can pretty much run a command that s in your PATH from a PS script  and it should work   Sometimes you may have to pre-launch this command with cmd exe  c  Examples  Calling git from a PS script  I had to repackage a git client wrapped in Chocolatey  for those who may not know  it s a kind of app-store for Windows  which massively uses PS scripts   I found out that  once git is in the PATH  commands like   ca bundle   git config --get http sslCAInfo   will store the location of git crt file in  ca bundle variable   Looking for an App  Another example that is a combination of the present SO post and this SO post is the use of where command   java exe   cmd exe  c where java   will store the location of java exe file in  java exe variable

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Try this    amp   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Configuration Manager AdminConsole bin i386 CmRcViewer exe  PCNAME   To PowerShell a string       is just a string and PowerShell evaluates it by echoing it to the screen   To get PowerShell to execute the command whose name is in a string  you use the call operator  amp

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One solution would be to pipe your command from PowerShell to CMD  Running the following command will pipe the notepad exe command over to CMD  which will then open the Notepad application   PS C   gt   notepad exe    cmd  Once the command has run in CMD  you will be returned to a PowerShell prompt  and can continue running your PowerShell script     Edits  CMD s Startup Message is Shown  As mklement0 points out  this method shows CMD s startup message  If you were to copy the output using the method above into another terminal  the startup message will be copied along with it

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