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Re: Using the @ sign in a string

Scott Rowe — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:07:14 GMT

I figured it out last night. I needed to send the "@c:\some.txt" as an argument and not part of the command. Now it works.

Thx,

Scott Rowe

@sprowe

freakling — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:58:00 GMT

Does it work when using '' around? like so: Invoke-Item 'c:\some.exe @c:\some.txt' or perhaps Invoke-Item c:\some.exe '@c:\some.txt'

Scott Rowe — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:28:26 GMT

The program needs it to read in a parm list. I wish there was another way.

Thx,

Scott Rowe

@SPRowe

Richard Giles — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:42:37 GMT

Invoke-Item is expecting an executable and/or file path spec to run an executable or open files like this :

C:\mydir\calc.exe

C:\mydir\*.txt

What is the significance of using the "@" symbol in your use case?

Scott Rowe — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:41:10 GMT

I need to use the @ in a command line. The command needs to look like this:

c:\some.exe @c:\some.txt

I can put it in a variable fine and it writes to the screen fine but when I try to use it in a Invoke-Item, I get this error:

Invoke-Item : The given path's format is not supported.

I know it's the @ giving the issue because when I remove it the program runs.

Any ideas?

Thx,

Scott

@sprowe