Execute command line from a specific folder [duplicate]

Question

I have a project , running from c:\work\SomeVariantFolder\MySolution\MyProject\Bin\Debug, and I need to execute a command line from this project from one of the subfolders : c:\work\SomeVariantDev. The problem I am facing is to get from the folder where my project running from to the folder where i am suppose to run this command line from.

Please note that I can't use batch file for this solution.

What I've tried to do - declare a private method which execute three commands from the same process, going four folders up and then execute my command, but that doesn't seem to work. I feel like I'm doing something wrong here because if I run this command from c:\work\SomeVariantFolder\ it wroks well.

var process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
var startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
                {
                       WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Normal,
                       FileName = "cmd.exe",
                       RedirectStandardInput = true,
                       UseShellExecute = false
                };

process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.Start();



 process.StandardInput.WriteLine("cd..");
 process.StandardInput.WriteLine("cd..");
 process.StandardInput.WriteLine("cd..");
 process.StandardInput.WriteLine("cd..");

 process.StandardInput.WriteLine("my command");

Please note that due the nature of my solution I can't use batch files and can't use c:\work\SomeVariantFolder as a hard coded folder since "SomeVariantFolder" name may change under some circumstances.

Any help would be appriciated

Answer 1

Try setting the WorkingDirectory property of ProcessStartInfo to sets the initial directory for the process to be started.

var startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
{
  WorkingDirectory = @"The\Process\Working\Directory",
  WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Normal,
  FileName = "cmd.exe",
  RedirectStandardInput = true,
  UseShellExecute = false
};

References: ProcessStartInfo.WorkingDirectory Property

Answer 2

System.Environment.CurrentDirectory = @"..\..\..";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("MyCommand", "arg1, arg2, arg3");