Currently, I am able to call cmd from powershell using the following command:
Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList '/K "ping 192.168.1.1"'
What I am trying to do is add multiple arguments to pass onto the command, but it is not working. For example:
Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList '/K "title test" /K "ping 192.168.1.1"'
Is there a way to do this?
Edit: My goal is to have a cmd window open, pinging the address listed, but also to pass the "title" argument so the window is titled.
Since you're calling cmd.exe, use its statement-sequencing operator, &, to pass multiple commands to cmd /K:
Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList '/K title test & ping 192.168.1.1'
Note:
Start-Process's -ArgumentList (-Args) parameter technically accepts an array of arguments. While passing pass-through arguments individually may be conceptually preferable, a long-standing bug unfortunately makes it better to encode all arguments in a single string - see this answer.
cmd.exe's built-in title command inexplicably includes double quotes in the title if you enclose the argument in "..."; thus, if you want to specify a title that contains spaces, leave it unquoted and escape metacharacters other than spaces with ^; e.g., to pass test & more as the title, use title test ^& more
start-process is sometimes tricky... try to add the elements as strings to an array and pass it over to start-process.
But in your case... idk what that /K should do, but in case of ping - ping is the process to start, not cmd ;-)
start-process ping.exe -argumentlist "127.0.0.1"
start-process ping.exe -argumentlist "127.0.0.1 /t"
as you are already using PowerShell
test-connection 127.0.0.1
Here is an example where I did something simliar:
$cmdArray = @(
If ($token){
"-c"
"`"http.extraHeader=Authorization: Bearer $token`""
}
If ($clone){
'clone'
}
If ($fetch){
'fetch'
'-f'
'origin'
If ($tag){
"tags/$($tag):tags/$($tag)"
}
}
Else {
"`"$uri`""
}
If ($whatif){
'--dry-run'
}
)
$result = Start-Process $pathGitexe -ArgumentList $cmdArray -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru
ok, based on your comment you need this:
$ips = @("192.168.1.1","192.168.1.2")
$ips | %{
start-process ping.exe -ArgumentList $_
}
cmd /K <command-line> allows you to open an interactivecmd.exe session that executes <command-line> on startup (/C, by contrast, exits the session after executing the command line). Thus, since the goal is to pass multiple statements as part of <command-line>, they can simply be separated with &.