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Roland
Roland

Reputation: 7853

cmd.exe vs & for executing batch file?

I want to execute a batch(*.bat) file from Powershell. Is there any reason not to use option 1 below?

  1. & path-to-batch-file
  2. cmd.exe /c path-to-batch-file

Upvotes: 0

Views: 485

Answers (1)

veefu
veefu

Reputation: 2890

I can only think of corner cases...

Option 1 probably uses the default file handler for .bat files. If that handler is changed, corrupted, or different than expected, a problem could arise. Though, this seems pretty unlikely.

Option 2 gives you the power to pass additional parameters to cmd.exe, which might be valuable.

Option 2 might be slightly faster, but it's only a guess: in Option 1 powershell might need to lookup the shell handler for batch files from the registry first, then execute those instructions, whereas Option 2 needs only find the cmd.exe executable and run it with supplied parameters.

Upvotes: 2

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