a 'homer moment' question

[BioHazard]

It's been a while since I asked a really dumb n00b question. So am going to ask one now. Can someone please tell me why this doesn't seem work?

Shell.Execute("cmd", "open", "ping 127.0.0.1", "C://", SW_SHOWNORMAL, false);

I know I can ping via HTTP.Submit(). And also via the CommandLine plugin. But it's not the point, here. I'm just trying to figure out why I can't pass "ping 127.0.0.1" as an argument to the command window? (In fact, I'm noticing that a lot of arguments can't seem to be passed in this way).

Am I having a 'homer moment, here'? What am I misunderstanding?

[BioHazard]

Hmmm, seems it just needed to be prefixed with a '/K' switch.
ie.

Shell.Execute("cmd", "open", "/K ping 127.0.0.1", "C://", SW_SHOWNORMAL, false);

Seems to do the trick.
Wonder if that'll work for the rest of the arguments I've noticed failing??? Command-line stuff is weird!

[kingzooly]

This might be useful for new users of CMD
https://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html

[BioHazard]

Hahaha, was just looking at that before u posted. Synchronicity, baby!