Hi, sorry I’m quite new. I have an executable that runs a cmd window on a server, I’d like to launch it with Powershell and then pass arguments to it to execute. I made a test with regular cmd and this works $command = "ping 8.8.8.8 -t" $Path = "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Start-Process $Path -A…

Is your “cmd based executable” not actually cmd.exe? I’m guessing it’s another launcher that calls cmd.exe to start a process/application? If that’s the case, you’re getting into some nested command stuff that gets a little grey… Can you tell us what “cmd based executable” you’re working with and m…

[OpenSSL] Youy guessed right, I’m not using cmd.exe. I’m using OpenSSL (wich runs a cmd like window, It reads regular cmd commands) to encrypd and decrypt files. I have some CSV files that will be generated on a server with 3DES encryption that I need to decrypt every day with OpensSL and then sen…

Hi, do you perhaps have any more suggestions? Yuo didin’t reply on my last reply. Thx again for your time

Well, certutil can be run from a standard command prompt or PowerShell without launching OpenSSL, at least in my experience. You can also run OpenSSL commands directly from a standard prompt or PowerShell without entering the interactive shell. So, if that’s all you need to do, you can create the co…

Thank you so much! I used the second option and it works, there is only a single problem left, not all the files are decoded. Right now in my start folder I have 17 files, decoding one after another didn’t wotk on all files (only 8 were decoded), so I tried putting a time-out between each decode pr…

How are you looping through the files? I assume by “decoded” that you need both the certutil and the openssl lines to be successful?

I’m looping with a For-Each Object loop. I first check of the original file is present in a folder I use for backup, if it isn’t I copy the file and then I proceed to decode it. The backup check is to not decode the same file twice. For decode yes, I mean the 2 operations to be successful and havi…

Thank you, I tought later of that, a Sleep of 5 seconds (maybe I can reduce it, but for now it doesn’t matter much) between the 2 Satrt-Process fixed everything

I fixed it, a Sleep of 5 seconds (maybe I can reduce it, but for now it doesn’t matter much) between the 2 Start-Process made it work. Thank you so much for the help

Start process and then send arguments

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krzydoug February 9, 2024, 12:06am 9

Perhaps you just need to add -wait to Start-Process and do them 1 by 1.

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Start process and then send arguments

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