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Storing Cmd-Results in PowerShell Variables

You can run classic cmd commands from within PowerShell and store the results in variables. All you need to do is invoke cmd.exe with the /c switch like so:

$result = cmd.exe /c dir
$result

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Posted Aug 17 2009, 08:00 AM by ps1
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