Chars in string

18y3.1kVisual Basic .NET

Hi.
I have made a c# app. in which i run another app. using Process. Everything has worked like a charm untill I added another argument to the app.StartInfo.Arguments string. The string I added looks like this: ">build2.log ". Do you know if there are any issues with the char ">" or something? Because when I run my app. in debug mode and copy the argument string and paste it in a regular command line console, the external app. runs fine. But when I run the external app. in my own app it does not execute correctly...

Thanks in advance!

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18y ago
Thanks. You are right. I solved the issue by using process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput.
Alan18y ago
If you're using the command shell, the problem may be caused by not closing the shell afterwards using the /c switch.

For example, to run the DOS command 'dir /od' and redirect output to a file, you would do:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

class Test
{
     static void Main()
     {
        Process p = new Process();
        p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
        p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/c dir /od >build2.log";
        p.Start();
     }
}

This wouldn't work if you didn't use /c.