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Troy Bryant
Troy Bryant

Reputation: 1024

Powershell Command open from location and run command

Learning how to use powershell. But what I am trying to do is from a specific location open a command prompt then execute a command.

So far I've been able to set the location and open the command prompt but can not run a command

so far i've tried this

Set-Location "F:\Projects\GameManagement\server"
start cmd.exe

And I've also tried the start process but dont know how to set the location and open with a specific program

The command i am trying to send to the command prompt is 'nodemon index.js'. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 717

Answers (1)

mklement0
mklement0

Reputation: 437663

Like cmd.exe, PowerShell is a shell, which means that you can invoke console applications directly, which executes them synchronously:

Set-Location F:\Projects\GameManagement\server
nodemon index.js

If the nodemon executable too is located in F:\Projects\GameManagement\server, you must replace the last line with
.\nodemon index.js, as Robert Cotterman points out, because, PowerShell, unlike cmd.exe, does not permit invocation of executables located in the current directory by name only, for security reasons.

From within PowerShell there is rarely a need to call cmd.exe - just use PowerShell itself.

Upvotes: 1

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