Running CMD commands from C#

Question

First of all, i searched a lot to avoid asking a duplicate question. If there is one, i will delete this question immediately.

All the solutions on the web are suggesting to use Process.StartInfo like this one

How To: Execute command line in C#, get STD OUT results

I dont want to run a batch file, or an .exe.

I just want to run some commands on cmd like

msg /server:192.168.2.1 console "foo" or ping 192.168.2.1

and return the result if there is one.

How can i do that ?

Probably duplicate of [link](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1469790/1617002) — Fka, Nov 13 '14 at 11:30
possible duplicate of [Run Command Prompt Commands](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469764/run-command-prompt-commands) — DIF, Nov 13 '14 at 11:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '14 at 11:32

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Those commands are still exe files, you just need to know where they are. For example:

c:\windows\system32\msg.exe /server:192.168.2.1 console "foo"
c:\windows\system32\ping.exe 192.168.2.1

answered Nov 13 '14 at 11:32

DavidG

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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The only proper way to do this is to use Process.Start. This is demonstrated adequately in this question, which is itself a duplicate of two others.

However, as DavidG says, the commands are all exe files and you can run them as such.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Nov 13 '14 at 11:36

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Emre Acar · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-13T11:42:38.073

Apparently, i found an answer

while (true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Komut giriniz.");
                string komut = Console.ReadLine();
                System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
                System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
                //startInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
                startInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
                startInfo.Arguments = "/C" + komut;
                startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                process.StartInfo = startInfo;
                Console.WriteLine(process.Start());
                string line = "";
                while (!process.StandardOutput.EndOfStream)
                {
                    line = line + System.Environment.NewLine + process.StandardOutput.ReadLine();
                    // do something with line
                }
                Console.WriteLine(line);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }

seems like if you can run cmd.exe with arguments including your command.

thanks for contributing.

If this is what you wanted to achieve, you should probably have specified in your question that you wanted your application to accept cmd commands from stdin. — PaddyD, Nov 13 '14 at 11:38

Running CMD commands from C#

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