dancavallaro has it right, %* for all command line parameters (excluding the script name itself). You might also find these useful: %0 – the command used to call the batch file (could be foo, ..\foo, c:\bats\foo.bat, etc.) %1 is the first command line parameter, %2 is the second command line parameter, and so on till … Read more
Try this: @echo off set /p “id=Enter ID: ” You can then use %id% as a parameter to another batch file like jstack %id%. For example: set /P id=Enter id: jstack %id% > jstack.txt
if exist <insert file name here> ( rem file exists ) else ( rem file doesn’t exist ) Or on a single line (if only a single action needs to occur): if exist <insert file name here> <action> for example, this opens notepad on autoexec.bat, if the file exists: if exist c:\autoexec.bat notepad c:\autoexec.bat
The space before the = is interpreted as part of the name, and the space after it (as well as the quotation marks) are interpreted as part of the value. So the variable you’ve created can be referenced with %location %. If that’s not what you want, remove the extra space(s) in the definition.
You just use this: if not exist “C:\VTS\” mkdir C:\VTS it wll create a directory only if the folder does not exist. Note that this existence test will return true only if VTS exists and is a directory. If it is not there, or is there as a file, the mkdir command will run, and … Read more
A lot of the answers here helped point me in the right direction, however none were suitable for me, so I am posting my solution. I have Windows 7, which comes with PowerShell built-in. Here is the script I used to find/replace all instances of text in a file: powershell -Command “(gc myFile.txt) -replace ‘foo’, … Read more
See Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format: @echo off For /f “tokens=2-4 delims=/ ” %%a in (‘date /t’) do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b) For /f “tokens=1-2 delims=/:” %%a in (‘time /t’) do (set mytime=%%a%%b) echo %mydate%_%mytime% If you prefer the time in 24 hour/military format, you can replace the second FOR line … Read more
From within your batch file: %cd% refers to the current working directory (variable) %~dp0 refers to the full path to the batch file’s directory (static) %~dpnx0 and %~f0 both refer to the full path to the batch directory and file name (static). See also: What does %~dp0 mean, and how does it work?
PowerShell has a cmdlet for this called Measure-Command. You’ll have to ensure that PowerShell is available on the machine that runs it. PS> Measure-Command { echo hi } Days : 0 Hours : 0 Minutes : 0 Seconds : 0 Milliseconds : 0 Ticks : 1318 TotalDays : 1.52546296296296E-09 TotalHours : 3.66111111111111E-08 TotalMinutes : 2.19666666666667E-06 … Read more
curl -K myconfig.txt -o output.txt Writes the first output received in the file you specify (overwrites if an old one exists). curl -K myconfig.txt >> output.txt Appends all output you receive to the specified file. Note: The -K is optional.