Check the errorlevel in an if statement, and then exit /b (exit the batch file only, not the entire cmd.exe process) for values other than 0. same-executable-over-and-over.exe /with different “parameters” if %errorlevel% neq 0 exit /b %errorlevel% If you want the value of the errorlevel to propagate outside of your batch file if %errorlevel% neq … Read more
FOR /F “tokens=* USEBACKQ” %%F IN (`command`) DO ( SET var=%%F ) ECHO %var% I always use the USEBACKQ so that if you have a string to insert or a long file name, you can use your double quotes without screwing up the command. Now if your output will contain multiple lines, you can do … Read more
System read-only variable %CD% keeps the path of the caller of the batch, not the batch file location. You can get the name of the batch script itself as typed by the user with %0 (e.g. scripts\mybatch.bat). Parameter extensions can be applied to this so %~dp0 will return the Drive and Path to the batch … Read more
rmdir is my all time favorite command for the job. It works for deleting huge files and folders with subfolders. A backup is not created, so make sure that you have copied your files safely before running this command. RMDIR “FOLDERNAME” /S /Q This silently removes the folder and all files and subfolders.
Set the path of adb into System Variables. You can find adb in “ADT Bundle/sdk/platform-tools” Set the path and restart the cmd n then try again. Or You can also goto the dir where adb.exe is located and do the same thing if you don’t wanna set the PATH. If you wanna see all the … Read more
The magic variables %n contains the arguments used to invoke the file: %0 is the path to the bat-file itself, %1 is the first argument after, %2 is the second and so on. Since the arguments are often file paths, there is some additional syntax to extract parts of the path. ~d is drive, ~p … Read more
This depends on the shell you prefer to use. If you are using the cmd shell on Windows then the following should work: FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S bin’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G” FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S obj’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G” If you … Read more
%~dp0 will be the directory. Here’s some documentation on all of the path modifiers. Fun stuff 🙂 To remove the final backslash, you can use the :n,m substring syntax, like so: SET mypath=%~dp0 echo %mypath:~0,-1% I don’t believe there’s a way to combine the %0 syntax with the :~n,m syntax, unfortunately.
This lists all the files (and only the files) in the current directory and its subdirectories recursively: for /r %i in (*) do echo %i Also if you run that command in a batch file you need to double the % signs. for /r %%i in (*) do echo %%i (thanks @agnul)
To expand on davor’s answer, you can use PowerShell like this: powershell “dir | tee test.txt” If you’re trying to redirect the output of an exe in the current directory, you need to use .\ on the filename, eg: powershell “.\something.exe | tee test.txt”