wmic output hangs when using psexec

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Rich Kreider

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I recently found when trying to issue a wmic query on a remote system with psexec (1.98) it would hang and not display results.

The solution is to redirect STDIN to NUL.

psexec \\computer cmd /c "wmic path win32_usbcontroller < NUL:"

I found this solution on Sysinternals forums from June 2011.

About Rich Kreider

Hello, world! I'm over 1/4 of a century old. I'm just another tech guy swinging from vine to vine in the jungle of technology and life. I currently work for an IT consulting firm in northwestern Pennsylvania and before that I was a system administrator for a small ISP that was centrally located in Ohio's Amish area. The answer is 42.
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