WMIC How to pass arguments/ parameters with exe - wmic

I want to call exe from remote system using WMIC direct command. for that I prepare one command here
WMIC /NODE:"RemoteSys" /USER:"domain\username" /PASSWORD:"XXXXXXXXX" PROCESS CREATE "C:\Program Files (x86)\Company\Product\productapp.exe"
But issue here is this productapp.exe is expecting an arguments/ parameters like " -p PlantA "
Question here is How to pass it ?
I tried many alternate ways but all fails like:
WMIC /NODE:"RemoteSys" /USER:"domain\username" /PASSWORD:"XXXXXXXXX" PROCESS CREATE "C:\Program Files (x86)\Company\Product\productapp.exe" -p PlantB
Output: Invalid Verb Switch
WMIC /NODE:"RemoteSys" /USER:"domain\username" /PASSWORD:"XXXXXXXXX" PROCESS CREATE "C:\Program Files (x86)\Company\Product\productapp.exe" "-p PlantB"
Output: Invalid format. Hint: = [, ].
Don't know what is paramlist & How to use that.
Can anyone help me here ?

I've had to do something similar with MATLAB. What you could try is opening a command prompt and executing the program with parameters from that command prompt.
WMIC /NODE:"RemoteSys" /USER:"username" /PASSWORD:"XXX" PROCESS CALL CREATE "cmd.exe /c cd C:/Program Files (x86)/Company/Product/ & productapp.exe -p PlantB"

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set(${PROJECT_NAME}_patch_cmd ${arg};${ARGN})
endmacro(SET_PATCH_CMD)
I dont remeber or am not sure why I added a ; between ${arg} and ${ARGN}, but patch commands like
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are working as expected in my cmake project.
When I set a simple command like
SET(PATCH_CMD <SOURCE_DIR>/scripts/my_schript.sh)
patch command executes as expected, but the moment I start adding arguments to script with spaces in between
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Running sqlcmd in batch file works but running the same batch file as a scheduled task works and does nothing

I have looked at many SO questions/answers and though some seem similar to my issue they do not seem to be. The answers given fix issues the questions were asking about but will not solve my issue.
I have a batch file...
#ECHO ON
ECHO Disabling the following... >> C:\App\Debug.log
ECHO - V1 >> C:\Apps\Debug.log
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'"`) DO (
Echo %%F >> C:\Apps\Debug.log
)
EXIT /B
When I run this file at the command prompt it works perfectly fine. When I run it as a scheduled task it show me the echos but nothing for the for loop as expected.
Yes I have made sure the username (using whoami) is the same for the scheduled task set up as the manual run that I do.
Yes I know the user running the script has rights to everything (file access as well as DB access) because it works fine running it from the command prompt.
Scheduled task is set to run wither user is logged on or not.
Any ideas what might be wrong or what I can try for debugging purposes?
Thanks!
sqlcmd is perhaps not enough. cmd.exe in environment of scheduled task may fail to find the executable using local PATHEXT and local PATH environment variables. The executable should be specified with full qualified file name, i.e. drive + path + name + extension. Then the batch file does not anymore depend on the environment variables PATH and PATHEXT because of all files are referenced with full qualified file name.
for executes the specified command line with starting in background one more command process with %ComSpec% /c and the specified command line appended. This means executed is following with Windows installed on drive C::
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'"
for captures everything written to handle STDOUT of started command process. The lines of captured output are processed line by line by for after started cmd.exe terminated itself. Error messages output by started cmd.exe or the commands/executables executed by Windows command processor in background to handle STDERR are redirected to handle STDERR of command process processing the batch file and printed to console. But there is no console window on running a batch file as scheduled task. So error messages cannot be seen in this case.
The for command line can be modified easily here to get also error messages written into the C:\Apps\Debug.log.
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1' 2^>^&1"`) DO (
The Microsoft article Using command redirection operators explains 2>&1. The two operators > and & must be escaped with ^ to be interpreted as literal characters on Windows command processor parsing the for command line before executing finally for which executes next %ComSpec% /c with the specified command line on which 2^>^&1 is changed already to 2>&1.
Does the log file C:\App\Debug.log contain with this modification following two lines?
'sqlcmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Yes, then no executable with file name sqlcmd is found by started cmd.exe. The best solution is referencing this executable with full qualified file name. See also: What is the reason for "X is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"?
Otherwise sqlcmd outputs perhaps an error message which should be now also in the log file C:\App\Debug.log.
It would be also possible to use following command line to let background cmd.exe write the error messages into a separate error log file C:\App\Error.log:
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'" 2^>C:\App\Error.log`) DO (
"tokens=* usebackq" results in first deleting all leading horizontal tabs and normal spaces on non-empty lines by for, then checking if the remaining line starts with ; in which case the line is also ignored and finally assigning the captured line not starting with ; and with leading tabs/spaces removed to loop variable F for further processing.
Better would be using the options usebackq^ delims^=^ eol^= not enclosed in double quotes which requires escaping the two spaces and the two equal signs with caret character ^ to be interpreted as literal characters by cmd.exe on parsing the command line before executing for. The line splitting behavior is disabled completed with delims= because of the definition of an empty list of delimiters. And no line except an empty line is ignored anymore because of end of line character modified from default ; to no character.
Finally a space on an echo line left to redirection operator >> is also output by echo and for that reason written as trailing space into the log file. Therefore no space should be used left to > or >> on printing a line with echo redirected into a file. But care must be taken on omitting the space character left to the redirection operator. The word left to redirection operator should not be 1, 2, ..., 9 as this would result in redirecting the output to these numbered handles into the specified file instead of the character 1, 2, etc. So if unknown text should be written into a file, it is better to specify first the redirection operator > or >> and the full qualified file name and next the echo command with the text to output. See also: Why does ECHO command print some extra trailing space into the file?
The three command lines with echo would be for this batch file:
ECHO Disabling the following...>> C:\App\Debug.log
ECHO - V1>> C:\Apps\Debug.log
>>C:\Apps\Debug.log ECHO %%F
following... is safe for being correct written into the file as also V1. %%F could be just 1 or a string ending with a space and a single digit and so it is better to specify the redirection first on the last echo command line to get finally executed by cmd.exe the command line ECHO %%F 1>>C:\Apps\Debug.log.

How to pass an argument to Plink in VBA

I am trying the following string in command prompt to execute some (test) remote commands on my server:
plink.exe -ssh -pw [PASSWD] [U/NAME]#[SERVER] -m cmds.bat -v
In my cmds.bat file I have some test commands:
sleep 3
#echo off
ls -la ~/
#echo on
sleep 1
I now want to beef this up to run a remote script while passing an argument. The argument will be handled and appended by my VBA code. This is the part I am stuck at. Please note the following VBA code is only a snippet; the part that calls Plink. The surrounding code, I am happy with:
If re.Test(Msg.Subject) Then
Set matchCol = re.Execute(Msg.Subject)
For Each match In matchCol
shellStr = "plink.exe -ssh [USERNAME]#[SERVER] -pw [P/WORD] -m cmds.bat " & match
Shell(shellStr, vbNormalFocus)
Next
End If
The offending line is:
shellStr = "plink.exe -ssh [USERNAME]#[SERVER] -pw [P/WORD] -m cmds.bat " & match
I do not know how to append the value held in variable match (captured by the Regexp) to the string to be executed in opening the shell.
The bat file will handle the command for actually running the script on the remote Unix server, where instead of ls -la ~/ in the above example I will use:
python ~/myscript.py [ARGUMENT FROM VBA VARIABLE "match"]
But how do I pass this match variable's value into this?
you cannot do this; plink just doesn't support this usage. your best bet is doing what you suggested in your comment: build the script on the fly. (and maybe don't call it .bat, that seems misleading a bit …)

How to check if a particular command line is running in cmd propmt

I desperately need help to create a vb / dos code which will do the following:
Check if a command prompt window is running with the following command: mgms A1 (mgms is a custom command)
If it is running, exit.
If it is not running, start cmd prompt and run the command , exit
Thanks a lot for your help!
The Windows cmd.exe batch language is horrible, but you should be able to put this in a batch file and get it working:
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq mgms.exe" 2>&1 | findstr /B "INFO: No tasks running" > tmp
for /F "delims=" %x in (tmp) do mgms A1
You may need to further check that the command-line arguments to mgms.exe match what you expect -- have a look at the help for tasklist.exe and findstr.exe. Both programs are both standard in WinXP Pro and up, I believe. If you don't have them, I'm sure you can find them or (near) equivalents on the web.

Running a bash script from the JVM

I'm having trouble running a simple bash script from Java. Specifically:
...
try{
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("/bin/bash", "-c", command);
pb.directory(new File(dir));
Process shell = pb.start();
int exitVal = shell.waitFor();
...
where 'command' the absolute path to a bash script that is executable by all and 'dir' is the working directory.
When I run my program I get an exit code 127 ("command not found"). I've tried using the Java Runtime class and the process.exec method but neither have worked for me. Any suggestions?
If "command" is a bash script, then instead of passing "/bin/bash" (and the erroneous "-c" like you're doing) to ProcessBuilder, just make sure that command is executable (chmod +x command), that the first line is #!/bin/bash, and then pass the full path to it into ProcessBuilder.
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