Help with executing command from cmd

[TheThinker]

Hi,
I am trying to execute this command from cmd when a button is clicked:

wevtutil qe system "/q:*[System [(Level=2)]]" /f:text /c:5 /rd:True

The problem is that I can't execute it successfully due to the presence of the Quotations in the cmd line of code itself.

The code in Visual Studio looks somewhat like this:

Shell("cmd /c wevtutil qe system " /q:*[System [(Level=2)]]"/f:text /c:5 /rd:true >C:\Last5.txt", vbHide)

I'd really appreciate the help with this, please.

Thanks in advance...

[stanav]

You need to escape each quote mark by adding another one to it (i.e replace 1 double quote mark with 2 double quote marks)

Shell("cmd /c wevtutil qe system ""/q:*[System [(Level=2)]]""/f:text /c:5 /rd:true >C:\Last5.txt", vbHide)

[TheThinker]

You need to escape each quote mark by adding another one to it (i.e replace 1 double quote mark with 2 double quote marks)

Shell("cmd /c wevtutil qe system ""/q:*[System [(Level=2)]]""/f:text /c:5 /rd:true >C:\Last5.txt", vbHide)

Thanks for the reply, the code you provided seems to solve the error i was getting due to the quote marks, but it still won't write the output to the Text File (Last5.txt)
It just creates an empty file...

[stanav]

Open the command prompt then manually type in the command and execute it... When you get the desired result, come back here and post the exact command you used...

[TheThinker]

There seemed to be a minor silly mistake in my code, i had forgotten to put a blank space after a quote mark which most probably caused the line of code to be unrecognized...
it's now solved, thanks to you...
thanks alot ...