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Hello, I have this issue on WIndows 10 + Hollywood 8:

I'm trying to execute an external program and redirect the output to a file, the built command string works fine if I run it from the shell directly but for some reasons using the Execute() command does not produce any output.

During my tests I've tried to execute simple commands to test the redirection, for example : But a system error popup saying that "<path_to_my_script>/dir" cannot be found... is it the standard behaviour? Should I provide full path to the dir command?
To be honest I don't remember if I had to provide full paths for system commands in HW7...

Anyway, let's return to my original problem, to simplify things I've made a test with the 7zip executable, here is the test code: the dq variable holds a double-quote character.

If I run the above code no output is generated, If I copy & paste the output that the DebugPrint() prints to a shell and I execute it the output is correctly generate... maybe I'm just getting confused with double-quotes...

Are you sure that this was possible in previous versions? AFAICS this is impossible to do directly from Execute() or Run() because they operate in Shell's context which doesn't have stdin and stdout. So you need to use some tricks to get the output, e.g. you could use cmd.exe to create a console context that captures the output, like so:
Alternatively, you could also use Execute() on a batch script that runs the program and captures the output.

I've found what I've done previously in an old project (file date says 2012!! Wow!!)
I've used the cmd.exe command like you have suggested in a shell script

Thank you for the tip!