{"id":2785,"date":"2013-10-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/01\/powertip-launch-cmd-exe-commands-from-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-launch-cmd-exe-commands-from-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-launch-cmd-exe-commands-from-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Launch Cmd.exe Commands from PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Launch legacy applications from Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Can I execute an old batch script in Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;To launch an old command or batch file from within a Windows PowerShell script, launch Cmd.exe with the&nbsp;<strong>\/C<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">CMD.EXE \/C PAUSE<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Or if it&rsquo;s a .bat or .cmd file, you can put it directly within the Windows PowerShell script and run it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">\\BAT\\CAVE\\RUNME.CMD<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;Your results will be in the <strong>$LASTEXITCODE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Launch legacy applications from Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;Can I execute an old batch script in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;To launch an old command or batch file from within a Windows PowerShell script, launch Cmd.exe with the&nbsp;\/C&nbsp;parameter: CMD.EXE \/C PAUSE Or if it&rsquo;s a .bat or .cmd file, you can put it directly within the Windows PowerShell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Launch legacy applications from Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;Can I execute an old batch script in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;To launch an old command or batch file from within a Windows PowerShell script, launch Cmd.exe with the&nbsp;\/C&nbsp;parameter: CMD.EXE \/C PAUSE Or if it&rsquo;s a .bat or .cmd file, you can put it directly within the Windows PowerShell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}