Powershell Command Processing (Passing in Variables)

Question

I\'m creating a Powershell script to deploy some code and part of the process is to call a command-line compression tool called RAR.EXE to back-up some folders.

I\'m at

Answer 1

One other way I found to do this was to create an array of arguments for the command line and use that with the apersand & call operator. Something like this:

$exe = "cmd";
[Array]$params = "/c", "echo", "foo";

& $exe $params;

It's worked well for me.

I originally found this technique here: http://techstumbler.blogspot.com/2009/12/windows-commands-with-arguments-in.html