如何从 Powershell 运行批处理文件？

Question

Traditionally, I have been able to do something like:

Start-Process -FilePath "\\server\Install.bat" -Wait

However every time I run that, a command prompt will flash on the screen then disappear and the installer never kicks off. But if I navigate to the batch file location and double-click it to run it manually it runs just fine. I swear I have done this before, but is Powershell unable to run batch files?

EDIT: Batch file code:

SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe /SITE_TOKEN=(sitecode) /SILENT

sitecode obviously contains the proper site code for our facility.

EDIT 2: Additional info:

My Start-Process contains the FQDN path to the batch file. I have also tried the & with the FQDN to the batch file as well as attempting the CLI command right inside Powershell. All yield the same results. I have also tried including start SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe as well as start /wait SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe into the batch file with the same results.

I can still run the batch file manually by double clicking it and it works great. But no matter what I try to do to call it from Powershell, it fails with "SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command"

EDIT 3 as it would take too many characters to respond in the comments:

CMD to PowerShell, run an exe with a XML was linked as a possible troubleshooting step. I have tried the following all including the FQDN:

\\server.domain.com\SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe /SITE_TOKEN=xxxxx /SILENT

& \\server.domain.com\SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe /SITE_TOKEN=xxxxx /SILENT

Start-Process -Wait -FilePath "\\server.domain.com\SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe" -ArgumentList '/SITE_TOKEN=xxxxx', '/SILENT'

Start-Process -Wait "\\server.domain.com\SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe" '/SITE_TOKEN=xxxxx', '/SILENT'

All of which point directly to the.exe file with the FQDN in the search and all yield the following: "SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command"

I also tried renaming the file to SentinelAgent.exe but it just returns the same error with the updated name.

I have also tried copying the entire directory down to C:\Temp and running the.bat/.exe command there - same error message.

Answer 1

I have used:

Invoke-Expression -Command 'cmd.exe /C <executable path and args>'

This is specific to running command line commands. An executable should not be an issue since the OS knows what to do with that type of file. As others have pointed out a.cmd or.bat file in this case provides no value and will create obscurity.

In this case the statement would be:

Invoke-Expression -Command 'cmd.exe /C \\server\SentinelAgent_windows_v4_4_2_143.exe /SITE_TOKEN=xxxxx /SILENT'