How to pass Powershell variable value into a cmd prompt

Question

In powershell, I need to pass a variable into a command in cmd prompt. It would take this structure, and yes I need to open command prompt.

Variable= 5 points
$prog="cmd.exe"  ''open cmd
$params=@("/C")

But I'm confused about the third line- can someone demonstrate for me an example of passing a variable in that line with some other parameters?

why you need to pass a var to cmd ? any thing that you can do in cmd you can also do in powershell — Ariel Livshits
– Ariel Livshits, Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 14:20

Aziz Kabyshev · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-21 15:04:53Z

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Just list string variables (a sample without @() syntax):

$prog = "cmd.exe"
$path = "C:\Users\user\Documents"
$params = "/C", "dir", $path

& $prog $params

This will work fine too:

$args = "dir", "C:\Users\user\Documents"
& cmd /c $args

answered Mar 21, 2016 at 15:04

Aziz Kabyshev

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