Personally I use exit. The normal exit command simply terminates the current script, and the parent (for example if you were running a script from command line, or calling it from another batch file) exit /b is used to terminate the current script, but leaves the parent window/script/calling label open. With exit, you can also … Read more
You have it almost done. Just explicitly say where to create the file @echo off echo.>”d:\testing\dblank.txt” This creates a file containing a blank line (CR + LF = 2 bytes). If you want the file empty (0 bytes) @echo off break>”d:\testing\dblank.txt”
Anders’ recipe has detailed control over a new environment, and I’m leaving that as the accepted answer because of that depth control. However one phrase in that answer led to me the method I’ll actually be using for the particular problem which prompted this enquiry. An “environment that is equal to the initial explorer.exe environment”. … Read more
This has already been answered in detail on SO. Check out this thread, It should answer all your questions: Executing a subprocess fails I’ve tried it myself with this code: batchtest.py from subprocess import Popen p = Popen(“batch.bat”, cwd=r”C:\Path\to\batchfolder”) stdout, stderr = p.communicate() batch.bat echo Hello World! pause I’ve got the batchtest.py example from the … Read more
It is because everything between the parentheses is loaded as one line. So %FileName% is expanded (at load time) before it is set (at run time). If you need to use the second format, you need to enable delayed expansion. Then you will have difficulty if the filename contains a !. This would work if … Read more
There is a “recycle.exe” command part of the a collection called cmdutils “Recycle.exe is a safe replacement for the DEL command, that sends files to the recycle bin instead of deleting them. Recycle is also more flexible than DEL; you can specify multiple files at once (or use wildcards)” Available at http://www.maddogsw.com/cmdutils (Tool last updated … Read more
Unfortunately at the moment you cannot do so without either using: cmd.exe /c foo.bat …or the following hack using binfmt: sudo sh -c “echo :WindowsBatch:E::bat::/init: > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register” You could then just type: foo.bat The problems with this method are that you’d need to be root, run it each time you opened a bash window, probably … Read more
for %%F in (%filename%) do set dirname=%%~dpF This will set %dirname% to the drive and directory of the file name stored in %filename%. Careful with filenames containing spaces, though. Either they have to be set with surrounding quotes: set filename=”C:\MyDir\MyFile with space.txt” or you have to put the quotes around the argument in the for … Read more
I believe you are using the echo Text >> Example.txt function? If so the answer would be simply adding a “.” (Dot) directly after the echo with nothing else there. Example: echo Blah echo Blah 2 echo. #New line is added echo Next Blah
If the input is, say, N, your IF lines evaluate like this: If N==”y” goto yes If N==”n” goto no … That is, you are comparing N with “y”, then “n” etc. including “N”. You are never going to get a match unless the user somehow decides to input “N” or “y” (i.e. either of … Read more