The XP Support Tools (which can be installed from your XP CD) come with a program called setx.exe: C:\Program Files\Support Tools>setx /? SETX: This program is used to set values in the environment of the machine or currently logged on user using one of three modes. 1) Command Line Mode: setx variable value [-m] Optional … Read more
Invoke these scripts via npm run and chain them with double ampersand &&: npm run pre-build && npm run build_logic && npm run post_build && npm run exit Explanation: Use && (double ampersand) for sequential execution. Use & (single ampersand) for parallel execution.
The “cd” command changes the directory, but not what drive you are working with. So when you go “cd d:\temp”, you are changing the D drive’s directory to temp, but staying in the C drive. Execute these two commands: D: cd temp That will get you the results you want.
Use the command dir to list all the directories and files in a directory; ls is a unix command.
Put pause at the end of your .BAT file.
Single quotation marks won’t do in that case. You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks: cmd /C “”C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRar\Rar.exe” a “D:\Hello 2\File.rar” “D:\Hello 2\*.*””
Yes, you can use substitutions and check against the original string: if not x%str1:bcd=%==x%str1% echo It contains bcd The %str1:bcd=% bit will replace a bcd in str1 with an empty string, making it different from the original. If the original didn’t contain a bcd string in it, the modified version will be identical. Testing with … Read more
The part you should be interested in is the /? part, which should solve most other questions you have with the tool. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\>cmd /? Starts a new instance of the Windows XP command interpreter CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | … Read more
Using set and the /p parameter you can echo without newline: C:\> echo Hello World Hello World C:\> echo|set /p=”Hello World” Hello World C:\> Source
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