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Date Published
Author
Paul Stovell
Word count
488
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Paul Stovell's guide demonstrates how to call an executable from PowerShell, emphasizing the ease of passing arguments by using the ampersand (&). He illustrates the process with a C# executable and discusses how PowerShell can handle variables with spaces as single arguments. Stovell highlights the challenges of dynamically adding arguments and suggests using arrays to manage them effectively, showcasing a method that avoids common pitfalls. He also explores an edge case where a single string of arguments behaves differently, depending on how quotes are used, revealing PowerShell's nuanced behavior. Stovell's insights provide practical solutions for executing commands with complex arguments in PowerShell.