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AnneTheAgile
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10 years ago

cannot capture return code from command line in powershell OR batch

I have two trivial tests. zTdd1_Good provides green, passing. zTdd2_Fail provides a very simple red, failure. They both appear to work great, with the small exception that the script at the end of 2_F...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    10 years ago
    It should work when using Start-Process ... -PassThru -Wait:



    PS C:\Users\helen> $tc = Start-Process 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 10\Bin\TestComplete.exe' '"C:\Users\Public\Documents\TestComplete 10 Samples\Common\Test Log\TestLog.pjs" /run /exit' -PassThru -Wait



    PS C:\Users\helen> $tc.ExitCode

    2



    Sorry I can't be more specific, I don't know PowerShell well.
AnneTheAgile's avatar
AnneTheAgile
Contributor
10 years ago
fyi, a powershell alternative version [1] that also works;



PS C:\windows\system32> (Start-Process -FilePath "c:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 10\Bin\TestComplete.exe" -ArgumentList '"c:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\TestComplete 10 Projects\hig4TestProject1\hig4TestProject1.pjs" /run /project:hig4TestProject1 /test:"KeywordTests|zTdd1_Good" /exit' -PassThru -Wait).ExitCode

0



PS C:\windows\system32> (Start-Process -FilePath "c:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 10\Bin\TestComplete.exe" -ArgumentList '"c:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\TestComplete 10 Projects\hig4TestProject1\hig4TestProject1.pjs" /run /project:hig4TestProject1 /test:"KeywordTests|zTdd2_Fail" /exit' -PassThru -Wait).ExitCode

2



PS C:\windows\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion



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1.[] ; ; ; ; ; X.Run MsiExec from PowerShell and get Return Code - Stack Overflow ; ; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4124409/run-msiexec-from-powershell-and-get-return-code