There’s a pause command that does just that, though it’s not specifically the enter key. If you really want to wait for only the enter key, you can use the set command to ask for user input with a dummy variable, something like: set /p DUMMY=Hit ENTER to continue…
If you want to do something x times, you can do this: Example (x = 200): FOR /L %%A IN (1,1,200) DO ( ECHO %%A ) 1,1,200 means: Start = 1 Increment per step = 1 End = 200
Preface Much of the information in this answer has been gathered based on experiments run on a Vista machine. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, I have not confirmed whether the information applies to other Windows versions. FINDSTR output The documentation never bothers to explain the output of FINDSTR. It alludes to the fact that matching lines … Read more
Read file contents into a variable: for /f “delims=” %%x in (version.txt) do set Build=%%x or set /p Build=<version.txt Both will act the same with only a single line in the file, for more lines the for variant will put the last line into the variable, while set /p will use the first. Using the … Read more
Using the START command to run each program should get you what you need: START “title” [/D path] [options] “command” [parameters] Every START invocation runs the command given in its parameter and returns immediately, unless executed with a /WAIT switch. That applies to command-line apps. Apps without command line return immediately anyway, so to be … Read more
You may already find your answer because it was some time ago you asked. But I tried to do something similar when coding ror. I wanted to run “rails server” in a new cmd window so I don’t have to open a new cmd and then find my path again. What I found out was … Read more
This script does the trick! Just paste it into the top of your bat file. If you want to review the output of your script, add a “pause” command at the bottom of your batch file. UPDATE: This script is now slightly edited to support command line arguments and a 64 bit OS. Thank you … Read more
Well, for just getting the filename of your batch the easiest way would be to just use %~n0. @echo %~n0 will output the name (without the extension) of the currently running batch file (unless executed in a subroutine called by call). The complete list of such “special” substitutions for path names can be found with … Read more
copy NUL EmptyFile.txt DOS has a few special files (devices, actually) that exist in every directory, NUL being the equivalent of UNIX’s /dev/null: it’s a magic file that’s always empty and throws away anything you write to it. Here’s a list of some others; CON is occasionally useful as well. To avoid having any output … Read more
xcopy.exe is definitely your friend here. It’s built into Windows, so its cost is nothing. Just xcopy /s c:\source d:\target You’d probably want to tweak a few things; some of the options we also add include these: /s/e – recursive copy, including copying empty directories. /v – add this to verify the copy against the … Read more