Error when calling 3rd party executable from Powershell when using an IDE

Question

I have a PowerShell script that uses du.exe (Disk Usage originally from Sysinternals) to calculate the size of directories.

If I run du c:\\Backup in th

Answer 1

I've recently been facing the same issues, but I would like to get the stderr output directed to stdout. You would think that the following would work:

    & du 2>&1

But PowerShell will interpret the redirection and process it after 'du' is completed. The work-around I found is to invoke it using cmd.exe /c:

    & cmd /c 'du 2>&1'