im unable to successfuly run a powershell command from AutoIt

[Au3Builder]

Any idea what's wrong with this? I want to zip a folder of mine.

Run('powershell.exe Compress-Archive -Path "C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder" -DestinationPath "test.zip"')

Edited February 9, 2018 by Au3Builder

[Zedna]

Look here, probably its related

https://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/ticket/3590

 

[Au3Builder]

I highly doubt it. Windows PowerShell itself compresses the folder without errors. Only Autoit doesn't and i'm using the previous version.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Au3Builder

[jdelaney]

If you run the exact command in the run window, does it execute fully?  windowskey +r

[Au3Builder]

9 minutes ago, jdelaney said:

If you run the exact command in the run window, does it execute fully?  windowskey +r

Nope .In short, I have accomplished the task only in two scenarios.

a) I copy & paste the exact command to Windows Powershell console.

b.) I create a powershell script and I run it with powershell.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Au3Builder

[jdelaney]

Ok, good. I'm sure someone could help with this issue, but it's not an autoit issue. Maybe use the -command parameter?  else you have to keep googleing, or go to a powershell forum

Edited February 9, 2018 by jdelaney

[Earthshine]

Use 7zip for applications. They have an exe you can use from installers and what not. I pack it with my installers to un  zip my shit. But it can be used to zip stuff. Are use it to create my build archives

Edited February 9, 2018 by Earthshine

[JLogan3o13]

If it is not working from the run command, as was stated, sounds like a PowerShell issue. Perhaps you should ask on a PowerShell forum.

Edited February 9, 2018 by JLogan3o13

[Au3Builder]

1 hour ago, JLogan3o13 said:

If it is not working from the run command, as was stated, sounds like a PowerShell issue. Perhaps you should ask on a PowerShell forum.

I bet lots of people use AutoIt in conjuction with PowerShell. sooner or later somebody posts me a solution here.nonetheless many thanks to you, Earthshine and Jdelaney.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Au3Builder

[Subz]

It worked for me under these conditions:
Changed the double quotes in your code above to single quotes
Changed the single quotes in your code above to double quotes
Use full path for -DestinationPath
Or
Use WorkingDir

Run("powershell.exe Compress-Archive -Path 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder' -DestinationPath 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\test.zip'")

Or

Run("powershell.exe Compress-Archive -Path 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder' -DestinationPath 'test.zip'", 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop')

 

[iamtheky]

and anytime you are dealing with quoted things within a quoted string, you can always set them to a var to ensure that quotes are not the issue.

e.g.

$spath = "'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder'"

$dpath = "'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\test.zip'"

Run("powershell Compress-Archive -Path " & $spath & " -DestinationPath " & $dpath)

 

Edited February 10, 2018 by iamtheky

[Au3Builder]

7 hours ago, Subz said:

 

Run("powershell.exe Compress-Archive -Path 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder' -DestinationPath 'C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\test.zip'")

 

Thank you! I can't explain why but putting double & single quotes in the right order as mentioned above solved the issue .

it would be great If somebody could elaborate on this so I knew what the point is.

Edited February 10, 2018 by Au3Builder

[Subz]

If you run the code in Cmd, you'll see the error, it strips the quotes unless you use single quotes or escape the double quotes, its a fairly common issue when running PowerShell.exe from command line.

Compress-Archive : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Folder'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Compress-Archive -Path C:\Users\GOD\Desktop\New Folder -DestinationPath test.zip
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Compress-Archive], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Compress-Archive