Running cmd /c from a PowerShell ps1 script using Stop-Parsing

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I have been stuck on this for ages. I am trying to run the following command from a .ps1 file

  cmd --% /c "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" "&&" nuget restore "&&" msbuild mywebapp.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=ServerFolderProfile

But I keep getting the following error

'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I figured out how to run the command from a PowerShell window from a previous question.

Also, the Stop-Parsing --% symbol requires at least Version 3 of PowerShell and I am running version 5.1.

version 5 is over 3 powershell wise so thats ok. CMD is a process for shell. This loks like a mix of shell and powershell. What exactly are you trying to do? — ArcSet
– ArcSet, Commented Oct 28, 2018 at 20:54
@ArcSet I am trying to automate deployment of my ASP.NET project. When I push my branch to a remote repo on my network a git hook (post-receive) executes a PowerShell script (which includes the line above) that builds and deployes the app to a folder. All I really need is msbuild.exe to do this, but when I run it from a regular command prompt I get errors and the solution I found was to use the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio. All VsDevCmd.bat from my command does is set some environment variables that the Developer Command Prompt would use. — gynetik
– gynetik, Commented Oct 28, 2018 at 21:26
Did you check Test-Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"? — JosefZ
– JosefZ, Commented Oct 29, 2018 at 0:10
@JosefZ While that didn't solve the original questions, using Test-Path did introduce me to a new problem I have to solve. The bat file is on my server, and if I run PowerShell from my local machine from a shared folder on my server, then Test-Path fails because it is looking on my local machine. So now I have to figure out how to get the Script to remote into my server, because when I run Test-Path directly on my server it passes. — gynetik
– gynetik, Commented Oct 29, 2018 at 3:59

Ansgar Wiechers · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-29 01:29:02Z

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Forget about --%. Put quotes around the entire commandline you want to run in CMD and escape the nested double quotes around the path to the batch file.

cmd /c "`"C:\Pro...Cmd.bat`" && nuget restore && msbuild mywebapp.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=ServerFolderProfile"

answered Oct 29, 2018 at 1:29

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gynetik Over a year ago

Thank you! Worked like a charm. Of course now I am running into some other problems with my script but at least I got this solved.

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