start “MY EXE” my.exe That kicks the exe off in the background (and avoids title issues, see below). The start command offers some options too, use start /? to list them: C:>start /? Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. START [“title”] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW … Read more
If your set command supports the /p switch, then you can pipe input that way. set /p VAR1=<test.txt set /? |find “/P” The /P switch allows you to set the value of a variable to a line of input entered by the user. Displays the specified promptString before reading the line of input. The promptString … Read more
Go to Setup and Click on ‘Startup dir…’ button and specify startup directory. As you can see in example bellow startup directory is C:\DEV
The else needs to be on the same “line” (a) as the if. Remove the new-line before the else like so: if “zz”==”TRUE” ( copy /a zz + /a ee=/a zz ) else ( copy /a e + /a %TMP%=/a e ) Please also note that “zz”==”TRUE” will never evaluate to true – I suspect … Read more
I also met the case to use both python2 and python3 on my Windows machine. Here’s how i resolved it: download python2x and python3x, installed them. add C:\Python35;C:\Python35\Scripts;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts to environment variable PATH. Go to C:\Python35 to rename python.exe to python3.exe, also to C:\Python27, rename python.exe to python2.exe. restart your command window. type python2 scriptname.py, or … Read more
TASKLIST does not set errorlevel. echo off tasklist /fi “imagename eq notepad.exe” |find “:” > nul if errorlevel 1 taskkill /f /im “notepad.exe” exit should do the job, since “:” should appear in TASKLIST output only if the task is NOT found, hence FIND will set the errorlevel to 0 for not found and 1 … Read more
Try: unzip -p dbdump.sql.zip | mysql -u root -p yourdbname The dbdump.sql.zip should contain a single SQL file. The -p flag pipes the output into the mysql binary.
try opening up cmd and simply: where python By default, this searches your PATH for matches. More precisely: Description: Displays the location of files that match the search pattern. By default, the search is done along the current directory and in the paths specified by the PATH environment variable. Most windows python installers modify your … Read more
DOS used simple text processing (back when you had things like FILES=20 in config.sys to allow 20 file handles), so opened the file, read the next line, closed the file, then executed the line just read. If the file called another, then the processing continued with that file, so only 1 file handle would be … Read more
This behaviour has been filed as a bug on connect. This is a workaround: powershell ./test.ps1 -source test.ps1 -dest test.copy.ps1 -test:$true