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11-29-2006
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| | RE: Execute from command line with environment variable in path First, you should put some double quotes around the path (string). Then, you can either use the invoke operator "&", or use Get-Item / Invoke-Item. PS> & "$Env:ProgramFiles\XML Notepad 2007\XmlNotepad.exe" PS> Invoke-Item "$Env:ProgramFiles\XML Notepad 2007\XmlNotepad.exe" PS> Get-Item "$Env:ProgramFiles\XML Notepad 2007\XmlNotepad.exe" | Invoke-Item -- greetings dreeschkind "Ken Brubaker" wrote: > An admitedly newbe question: > > I'm trying to execute a program by using an environment variable in the path: > > PS> $env:vs80comntools\..\..\sdk\v2.0\Bin\xsd.exe > > This doesn't work. How do you get this to work? > |
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