How to pass parameters to an exe?

Question

I am using psexec on my server to run an exe file on another server. How do I pass parameters to the other exe ?

The exe that I am running on my server is psexec which in turn must run the exe named vmtoolsd.exe located on another system. How do I pass parameters to vmtoolsd.exe ? Also, where do I pass it ? Would I pass it as part of the info.Arguments ? I've tried that but it isn't working.

ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(@"C:\Tools");
info.FileName = @"C:\Tools\psexec.exe";
info.Arguments = @"\\" + serverIP + @"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMwareTools\vmtoolsd.exe";
Process.Start(info);

Also, as part of info.Arguments would I have to preface the path of vmtoolsd.exe with the IP address, followed by the drive path ?

Answer 1

Hope the below code may help.

Code from first .exe:

Process p= new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "demo.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "param1 param2";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();

or

Process.Start("demo.exe", "param1 param2");

Code in demo.exe:

static void Main (string [] args)
{
  Console.WriteLine(args[0]);
  Console.WriteLine(args[1]);
}

Answer 2

Right click on .exe file-->goto shortcut-->in target tab write the arguement in extreme right... in my case it worked

Answer 3

You can see it in the following post (answer by @AndyMcCluggage):

How do I start a process from C#?

using System.Diagnostics;
...
Process process = new Process();
// Configure the process using the StartInfo properties.
process.StartInfo.FileName = "process.exe";
process.StartInfo.Arguments = "-n";
process.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized;
process.Start();
process.WaitForExit();// Waits here for the process to exit.

It provides far more control as you can see in the MSDN, but basically the arguments control is quite easy as you can see, is just to modify a property with a string.

Update: Since with the snippet code above you would be starting PsExec, based on:

PsExec

The format you have to use is:

psexec @run_file [options] command [arguments]

Where: arguments Arguments to pass (file paths must be absolute paths on the target system).

Since the process you're starting is psexec, in the process.StartInfo.Arguments you would have to put all the parameters it would need, in a sigle chain: @run_file [options] command [arguments].