Running a shell command to run a separate program as admin space character issue!

[Joe232]

Normally via cmd this is the way to run a command and to run the thing as admin!

powershell -command "&{Start-Process -filepath 'cmd' -argumentlist '/c cmd.exe' -verb

Now when I try to runt he same thing with Rust,

// Running shell scripts
use std::process::Command;

fn main()
{
    let output = Command::new("powershell.exe")
    .arg("powershell")
    .arg(format!("-command \"&{{Start-Process -filepath 'cmd' -argumentlist '/c \"{}\"' -verb runas}}\"", "C:\\Users\\Joe\\Desktop\\testing 1\\testing.bat"))
    .output()
    .unwrap();

    println!("{:?}", output);
}

It only works if there is no space character, but because there is a space character C:\\Users\\Joe\\Desktop\\testing 1\\testing.bat how would I fix this?

[notriddle]

This looks like it would be solved by

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/85832

[carey]

I would have expected -command and the PowerShell code to go as separate .arg() calls. There are some other things you could try:

• Use -EncodedCommand to pass Base-64 encoded PowerShell code as a separate argument.
• Use -Command - to pass the PowerShell code via the program’s stdin.
• Most reliably, but with a more complicated build process, use ShellExecuteW with its runas verb to skip using PowerShell at all.