Vista - Executing batch files in PS scripts

I am have a trouble writing a PowerShell wrapper around some batch files. I
have a wrapper working using WScript/VBScript but I would like to move to
PowerShell.

The working WScript/VBScript code echos 'y' into a make.bat prompt. CODE 123
VER 1.2.3 are parameters for make.bat and I'm redirecting stderr to stdout.
Stdout is dumped into a log file (and monitored for errors, code not shown).

set oExec = oShell.Exec("%comspec% /c echo y | make.bat CODE 123 VER 1.2.3
2>&1")
Do Until oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
sReadLine = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine()
fLog.Writeline sReadLine
loop

I can get the make batch file to run and pipe 'y' into it, but can't get the
parameters passed into it.

echo y | make.bat "CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1" >build.log

Is there a PowerShell method of implementing the

'Do Until oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
sReadLine = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine()'

functionality?

TIA

> Is there a PowerShell method of implementing the
>
> 'Do Until oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
> sReadLine = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine()'
>
> functionality?

Don't have the time to try out the DOS part right now.

You're looking to just capture what's going on like a logfile?

Might start-transcript/stop-transcript work for you?

Marco

Thanks for the suggestion Marco. I think I need to use the Tee-Object cmdlet
to pipe the output to a file and process the stream for errors.

"Marco Shaw" wrote:

>
> > Is there a PowerShell method of implementing the
> >
> > 'Do Until oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
> > sReadLine = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine()'
> >
> > functionality?
>
> Don't have the time to try out the DOS part right now.
>
> You're looking to just capture what's going on like a logfile?
>
> Might start-transcript/stop-transcript work for you?
>
> Marco
>

"David" wrote:

> I can get the make batch file to run and pipe 'y' into it, but can't get the
> parameters passed into it.
>
> echo y | make.bat "CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1" >build.log
>

I've solved part of this problem by not quoting the parameters for make.bat
and specifing the path for the make.bat

echo y | ./make.bat CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1 >build.log

> "y" | ./make.bat CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1 >build.log

This appears to function properly but whenever make.bat outputs to stderr,
powershell outputs the following after make.bat's warning messages;

At C:\PowerShell\make.ps1:22 char:20
+ "y" | ./make.bat <<<< CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1 >build.log

It looks like powershell is trying to parse the commandline, but make.bat is
using the commandline parameters properly.

I couldn't get PowerShell to directly process the batch file without parsing
errors with the batch file parameters. I was able to pass the command line to
cmd.exe without errors.

cmd /c "echo y | makeall.bat CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1" > "build.log"

Further processing of the output checking for success by piping the output
into a function looking for a string.

function TestSuccess ($success)
{
while ($input.movenext())
{
if ($input.Current -match $success)
{
$global:Complete = $true
}
}
}
$global:Complete=$false
cmd /c "echo y | makeall.bat CODE 123 VER 1.2.3 2>&1" | Tee-Object
"build.log" | TestSuccess "MAKE successfully completed."