Thank you sir, the last command worked, though win_shell did not.
Follow up: what is the switch to run cmd.exe AS ADMINISTRATOR?

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Jordan Borean <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can try just running the gcloud executable by itself to make things
> simpler like so
>
> - win_command: gcloud auth activate-service-account
>> --key-file=C:\Users\user\Desktop\foo.json
>
>
> This should work unless that relies on any shell ism's which are not
> available in win_command. Otherwise you have 2 other options if you really
> need to run it under command prompt
>
> - name: run it under win_shell and specify it to run under the cmd shell
>   win_shell: gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=C:\Users\user
> \Desktop\foo.json
>   args:
>     executable: cmd.exe
>
> - name: run it under win_command by creating a new cmd shell and
> executing the command
>   win_command: cmd.exe /c gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=
> C:\Users\user\Desktop\foo.json
>
>
> The last example is close to what you were trying to do but to run a
> command in cmd you must pass the /c argument telling it what command to
> actually run.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jordan
>
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