Run a simple external command:

Run a command, and get back only what it writes to the standard output channel:

Give a command-line option to the function:

Equivalent command on Windows:

Run a command, and get back only its exit code:

Run the command-line console and a couple of commands inside it, then quit it:

Run the same program with the same input, but retrieve only its standard output:

The right way to call RunProcess for a program plus its arguments is using a list:

Calling RunProcess with the command and arguments in a single string does not work:

Also, calling RunProcess with the program arguments as arguments for RunProcess is not allowed:

Special symbols like ~ and * are not converted using shell expansion because RunProcess skips the shell:

Shell commands like dir and echo cannot be called directly on Windows because they are not binaries (however, they are binaries on Unix systems):

Some commands might need to be called using absolute paths: