Question

I am looking for a way to run DOS/windows batch directly from C# code without saving it as .BAT file before. I’m mainly interested to run DOS command with a combination of stdin stream.

Let’s say I need execute something like that:

echo 'abcd' | programXXX.exe -arg1 --getArgsFromStdIn

After that programXXX.exe will take ‘abcd’ string as -arg1

What I’m doing now is just create bat file in TMP directory and running it, deleting after execution.
What I need is run it “on the fly” just from .NET code without saving to file previously.
(Main reason is security, but also do not want to leave rubbish when program crashes etc)

Do you know how to achieve that?

Answer 1

I would offer two suggestions

1. use redirected IO and launch the program from in your code
2. you can use power shell like in this tutorial