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balajiboss
balajiboss

Reputation: 968

How to execute powershell commands (not from ps1 file) from cmd.exe

I am trying to execute powershell if-else from cmd. For example to check the number of files, that has "temp" in its name in D: drive,I used,

if(($i=ls D:\* | findstr /sinc:Temp).count -ne 0 ) {Write-Host $i}

This works fine from PS windows

But if want to do the same from cmd, How do i do it? I tried 

powershell -noexit if(($i=ls D:\* | findstr /sinc:Temp).count -ne 0 ) {Write-Host $i}

which did not work unfortunately.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 25771

Answers (5)

utapyngo
utapyngo

Reputation: 7136

Just another solution for you problem without using powershell:

dir /b D:\*Temp* | find /v /c "::"

This will print just the number of files or folders on D: that have "Temp" in their names. The double-colon here is just a string that should not be in the output of dir /b, so find /v /c "::" counts all lines of the output of dir /b.

Upvotes: 1

Frode F.
Frode F.

Reputation: 54881

I know this doesn't answer how to run the command(others have covered it already), but why would you want to combine cmd and powershell, when both can do the job alone?

Ex powershell:

#Get all files on D: drive with temp in FILEname(doesn't check if a foldername was temp)
Get-ChildItem D:\ -Recurse -Filter *temp* | where { !$_.PSIsContainer } | foreach { $_.fullname }

#Check if fullpath includes "temp" (if folder in path includes temp, all files beneath are shown)
Get-ChildItem D:\ -Recurse | where { !$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.FullName -like "*temp*" } | foreach { $_.fullname }

Ex cmd:

#Get all files with "temp" in filename
dir d:\*temp* /s /a:-d /b

Upvotes: 1

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 306

@utapyngo's double quote solution works.

Also another way for @utapyngo's another way to make it in cmd:

dir /b D:\* | find /c "*Temp*"

And to Bill: there should not be a opening double quote before & in your first code, I guess?

Upvotes: 0

utapyngo
utapyngo

Reputation: 7136

Just put the command in double quotes:

powershell "if(($i=ls D:\* | findstr /sinc:Temp).count -ne 0 ) {Write-Host $i}"

I also think you don't need the -NoExit switch here. This switch prevents powershell from exiting after running the command. If you want to return back to cmd, remove this switch.

Upvotes: 16

Bill
Bill

Reputation: 5772

powershell -noexit "& "C:\........\run_script.ps1"

see these -- http://poshoholic.com/2007/09/27/invoking-a-powershell-script-from-cmdexe-or-start-run/

http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2006/05/05/running-powershell-scripts-from-cmd-exe/

or for V2

Powershell.exe -File C:\.........\run_script.ps1

Upvotes: -1

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