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gog
gog

Reputation: 12988

How to run .exe programs with arguments in powershell?

I am trying to make a very simple script in powershell to create a Certificate using makecert.exe tool (I know powershell already has its own certificate creation method but I would like to use makecert).

I would like to reproduce this command:

makecert.exe -sk server -sky exchange -pe -n CN=<machineName> -ir LocalMachine -is Root -ic MyCA.cer -sr LocalMachine -ss My <certificate path>

How is it possible in powershell?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 206

Answers (2)

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 202032

If you're on V3 or higher, you should consider using the Stop Parsing operator --%. In this way you can specify parameters just like you would in cmd.exe:

makecert.exe --% -sk server -sky exchange -pe -n CN=acme.com -ir LocalMachine -is Root -ic MyCA.cer -sr LocalMachine -ss My C:\test.cer

Although, now that I look at this, it would probably work just fine like this:

makecert.exe -sk server -sky exchange -pe -n CN=acme.com -ir LocalMachine -is Root -ic MyCA.cer -sr LocalMachine -ss My C:\test.cer

I don't see any characters($,@,(,;) that would cause problems for PowerShell. Passing through of quotes can also be a problem but I don't see any quoting in this case.

Upvotes: 3

Noah Sparks
Noah Sparks

Reputation: 1772

For most executables, you want to pass the arguments as an array including the switches. Here is an example:

$arguments = "$env:windir\", 'c:\jpegs\','*.jpg', '/R:0', '/S', '/XD', '*winsxs*'  
Robocopy.exe $arguments

Upvotes: 4

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