PowerShell - Start-Process and Cmdline Switches

Question

I can run this fine:

$msbuild = "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe" 
start-process $msbuild -wait

But when I run this code (below) I get an error:

$msbuild = "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe /v:q /nologo" 
start-process $msbuild -wait

Is there a way I can pass parameters to MSBuild using start-process? I'm open to not using start-process, the only reason I used it was I needed to have the "command" as a variable.

When I have
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe /v:q /nologo
on a line by itself, how does that get handled in Powershell?

Should I be using some kind of eval() kind of function instead?

Answer 1

you are going to want to separate your arguments into separate parameter

$msbuild = "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe"
$args = "/v:q /nologo"
start-process $msbuild $args 

Answer 2

Using explicit parameters, it would be:

$msbuild = "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe"
start-Process -FilePath $msbuild -ArgumentList /v:q,/nologo

Answer 3

Unless the OP is using PowerShell Community Extensions which does provide a Start-Process cmdlet along with a bunch of others. If this the case then Glennular's solution works a treat since it matches the positional parameters of pscx\start-process : -path (position 1) -arguments (positon 2).