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CommandLine can't execute commands in PowerShell #49
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Seems like CommandLine on Windows always use cmd.exe, even on Windows 10 platforms.
However, on these platforms, PowerShell provides longer command(line, which is very useful for projects running java commands with full CLASSPATH in (take a look, as an example, to On Windows, command line may be too long)
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michael-o commentedon Nov 21, 2018
The entire concept is illdesigned by invoking a shell instead of the processes directly. This needs to be changed as a whole.
slachiewicz commentedon Apr 17, 2025
see #37
wilx commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Is this fixed by native PowerShell wrapper scripts apache/maven#12541?
michael-o commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Completely unrelated
slachiewicz commentedon Aug 17, 2026
Closing as stale, and because the project is heading the other way.
There has been no follow-up from the reporter since 2018, and the direction agreed on #110 is to stop wrapping commands in a shell at all rather than to add PowerShell alongside
cmd.exe— see michael-o in #110 (comment). Adding a third shell would move against that.Callers that need PowerShell can set it as the executable and pass the command as arguments. If that turns out not to work on a current release, please open a fresh issue with a reproducer.
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