Is is possible to pass one string as two arguments in Powershell?

Question

In Powershell, is it possible to define a string as $mystring="param1 param2" then pass that string to a process call

& c:\usr\bin\myprocess.exe "$mystring"

and have it interpreted as myprocess.exe param1 param2? where param1 and param2 are separate arguments

I think that's going to depend on how myprocess.exe parses it's arguments. — mjolinor
– mjolinor, Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 1:56
You may want to check out edgylogic.com/blog/powershell-and-external-commands-done-right, but I would agree with @mjolinor that it will fundamentally depend on how myexternalprocess.exe. Any reason why you would not define your params as an array e.g. $mystring=@("param1","param2") then just use & c:\usr\bin\myprocess.exe $mystring — andyb
– andyb, Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 3:06
Interesting; I recently wrote something quite similar to that (including a companion executable to really see the arguments). — Bill_Stewart
– Bill_Stewart, Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 3:09

Bill_Stewart · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-03 03:07:12Z

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You can do it if you pass argument array to Start-Process with the -ArgumentList parameter; e.g.:

$argList = "param1","param2"
start-process myprocess.exe $argList

answered Jul 3, 2014 at 3:07

Bill_Stewart

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