Reputation: 3305
I am new to powershell.
Can any body please explain me how to open command prompt from powershell.
I want to open command prompt
and run Dir
command
Is it possible to use new-object -comobject
for this???
Upvotes: 13
Views: 62661
Reputation: 404
Just run start cmd
.
That will open Command Prompt in a new window.
Upvotes: 17
Reputation: 29974
dir
is built into PowerShell. It's an alias for Get-ChildItem
. Open a PowerShell prompt from the Start Menu (All Programs --> Accessories if you're on XP, just search on higher versions of Windows), and just type dir
and press Enter. It works similarly to the dir
Command Prompt command.
A COM object is definitely overkill. If you really, really need to use the Command Prompt within PowerShell, just run cmd
. That will launch an instance of the Command Prompt in the current window.
Upvotes: 4