You can use ren (as in rename): ren *.XXX *.YYY And of course, switch XXX and YYY for the appropriate extensions. It will change from XXX to YYY. If you want to change all extensions, just use the wildcard again: ren *.* *.YYY One way to make this work recursively is with the FOR command. … Read more
As others have already said, parameters passed through the command line can be accessed in batch files with the notation %1 to %9. There are also two other tokens that you can use: %0 is the executable (batch file) name as specified in the command line. %* is all parameters specified in the command line … Read more
dir /s *foo* searches in current folder and sub folders. It finds directories as well as files. where /s means(documentation): /s Lists every occurrence of the specified file name within the specified directory and all subdirectories.
Today powershell saved me. For grep there is: get-content somefile.txt | where { $_ -match “expression”} or select-string somefile.txt -pattern “expression” and for sed there is: get-content somefile.txt | %{$_ -replace “expression”,”replace”} For more detail about replace PowerShell function see this Microsoft article.
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
Maven uses batch files to do its business. With any batch script, you must call another script using the call command so it knows to return back to your script after the called script completes. Try prepending call to all commands. Another thing you could try is using the start command which should work similarly.
I realize that this question is coming up on two years old, but I had the same issue and several answers here did not completely answer the question for me. Here are three step-by-step solutions, depending on whether you use TortoiseGit in addition to msysgit or not. First solution Assumes Windows, msysgit, and PuTTY. Install … Read more
You can use IF EXIST to check for a file: IF EXIST “filename” ( REM Do one thing ) ELSE ( REM Do another thing ) If you do not need an “else”, you can do something like this: set __myVariable= IF EXIST “C:\folder with space\myfile.txt” set __myVariable=C:\folder with space\myfile.txt IF EXIST “C:\some other folder … 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
EISDIR stands for “Error, Is Directory“. This means that NPM is trying to do something to a file but it is a directory. In your case, NPM is trying to “read” a file which is a directory (Line: 4). Since the operation cannot be done the error is thrown. Three things to make sure here. … Read more