Prevent overwriting a file using cmd if exist
Use the FULL path to the folder in your If Not Exist code. Then you won’t even have to CD anymore: If Not Exist “C:\Documents and Settings\John\Start Menu\Programs\SoftWareFolder\”
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Custom Bash prompt is overwriting itself
1) I would like to know why it is overwriting my prompt Because every non-printable characters have to be escaped by \[ and \] otherwise readline cannot keep track of the cursor position correctly. You must put \[ and \] around any non-printing escape sequences in your prompt. Without the \[ \] bash will think … Read more
Create React App not working
In my case, “create-react-app” was not installed. to install run this command npm install -g create-react-app Once installation successful, try running npx create-react-app hello-world If this works for you. Great else comment what worked for you,
What is `cmd /s` for?
Cmd /S is very useful as it saves you having to worry about “quoting quotes”. Recall that the /C argument means “execute this command as if I had typed it at the prompt, then quit”. So if you have a complicated command which you want to pass to CMD.exe you either have to remember CMD’s … Read more
How to print current directory name via MS-DOS commands
Just use cd with no arguments supplied. From cd /?: Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory.
How to open Visual Studio Solution File from the Command Prompt
If you haven’t done cd MySolution but are still in the directory from which you did the git clone just type start MySolution/MySolution.sln and hit Enter. This will open whatever version of Visual Studio you currently have set to open with .sln files in Windows.
Use shebang/hashbang in Windows Command Prompt
Yes, this is possible using the PATHEXT environment variable. Which is e.g. also used to register .vbs or .wsh scripts to be run “directly”. First you need to extend the PATHEXT variable to contain the extension of that serve script (in the following I assume that extension is .foo as I don’t know Node.js) The … Read more
show current GIT branch name in windows command prompt
You cannot do this from the Windows-based “Command Prompt.” There is an environment, however, that can run on top of your Windows environment, that does. After you run the Git windows installer and allow git to install, you can invoke git-bash from context menu. By default, the git-bash environment shows what branch you are in.
How to complete the RUNAS command in one line [closed]
The runas command does not allow a password on its command line. This is by design (and also the reason you cannot pipe a password to it as input). Raymond Chen says it nicely: The RunAs program demands that you type the password manually. Why doesn’t it accept a password on the command line? This … Read more
How to run TestNG from command line
You need to have the testng.jar under classpath. try C:\projectfred> java -cp “path-tojar/testng.jar:path_to_yourtest_classes” org.testng.TestNG testng.xml Update: Under linux I ran this command and it would be some thing similar on Windows either test/bin# java -cp “.:../lib/*” org.testng.TestNG testng.xml Directory structure: /bin – All my test packages are under bin including testng.xml /src – All source … Read more