Shorthand for running external commands

[mungojam]

I'd like to replace some simple powershell scripts with dotnet-script so that I can expand them using C# syntax. The scripts execute some external exes, which in powershell is very succinct and similar to a simple batch file, but with C# the most succinct seems to be Process.ExecuteAsync which is still harder for others to follow than a simple call to the exe with all it's arguments.

I wonder if there could be a new magic command to do it, something like:

#run xcopy C:\somefolder E:\backupfolder /D /E /C /R /H /I /K /Y

compared with how it would currently look:

using System.CommandLine.Invocation;

await Process.ExecuteAsync("xcopy", @"""C:\some folder"" E:\backupfolder /D /E /C /R /H /I /K /Y");

I guess I could simplify it a bit by making a shared script that took a single string as an Arg and split it to run Process.ExecuteAsync

[mungojam]

Thinking about it, I realised that the # commands are actually pre-processor commands so it wouldn't really work to have them as special commands in the middle of C# (and might look a bit odd!). I've also realised that the ExecuteAsync command doesn't make you put the command line parameters as completely separate parameters