It is normal practice to open the command prompt and executecommands. The command when executed shows the result onto thescreen. There are many commands that we execute daily such as dir,find etc. C# programmers have to code in diverse satiations. Asituation may arise when you want to execute a (shell) command fromthe C# application. Don’t Worry!!! Here is the code to do so…In the code given below we create a process i.e. a command processand then invoke the command that we want to execute. The result of the command is stored in a string variable, which can then be used forfurther references. The command execution can happen in two ways,
synchronously
and
asynchronously
. In the asynchronous commandexecution we just invoke the command execution using a thread thatruns independently.
usingSystem;usingSystem.Threading; namespaceExecuteCommand{ public class Program
{ static voidMain(string[] args)
{ stringcommand =String.Empty;
// Write to the console. Console.Write("Enter the command you wish to execute: ");
// Get the command you wish to execute.command =Console.ReadLine().Trim();
// Execute the command synchronously. ExecuteCmdexe =new ExecuteCmd();
exe.ExecuteCommandSync(command); // Execute the command asynchronously.exe.ExecuteCommandAsync(command); // Your' done !!! Console.WriteLine("\nDone !");
Console.ReadLine();}} public class ExecuteCmd
{#regionExecuteCommand Sync and Async /// <summary>
///Executes a shell command synchronously. /// </summary>
/// <param name="command">string command</param>
/// <returns>string, as output of the command.</returns>
public voidExecuteCommandSync(objectcommand)
{ try{ // create the ProcessStartInfo using "cmd" as theprogram to be run, and "/c " as the parameters. // Incidentally, /c tells cmd that we want it toexecute the command that follows, and then exit.
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfoprocStartInfo =new
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd","/c "+ command);
// The following commands are needed to redirect thestandard output.//This means that it will be redirected to theProcess.StandardOutput StreamReader.procStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput =true;procStartInfo.UseShellExecute =false; // Do not create the black window.procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow =true; // Now we create a process, assign its ProcessStartInfoand start itSystem.Diagnostics.Processproc =new
System.Diagnostics.Process();proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;proc.Start(); // Get the output into a string stringresult = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); // Display the command output. Console.WriteLine(result);} catch(ExceptionobjException)
{ // Log the exception}} /// <summary> ///Execute the command Asynchronously.
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