There are three types of variables of which value is accessed using the syntax %variable% or !variable! on having enabled delayed environment variable expansion with using the option EnableDelayedExpansion of the command setlocal from within a Windows command prompt window or a batch file, i.e. using %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe. 1. Persistent stored variables There are environment variables … Read more
The Windows File Explorer explorer.exe starts cmd.exe with implicit usage of the option /C to close command process after finishing batch file execution and with setting the batch file directory as current directory on double clicking a batch file. If the double clicked batch file is on a network share and a UNC path is … Read more
All you have to do is use the runas command to run your program as Administrator (with a caveat). runas /user:Administrator “cmdName parameters” In my case, this was runas /user:Administrator “cmd.exe /C %CD%\installer.cmd %CD%” Note that you must use Quotation marks, else the runas command will gobble up the switch option to cmd. Also note … Read more
You’re going to be disappointed: %userprofile% You can use other terminals, though. Powershell, which I believe you can get on XP and later (and comes preinstalled with Win7), allows you to use ~ for home directory.
Just leave out the “dot-slash” ./: D:\Gesture Recognition\Gesture Recognition\Debug>”Gesture Recognition.exe” Though, if you wanted to, you could use .\ and it would work. D:\Gesture Recognition\Gesture Recognition\Debug>.\”Gesture Recognition.exe”
command 2>&1 1>nul doesn’t work is not correct. It works. But as usual, it does what you asked not what you wanted From left to right: 2>&1 data to stream 2 (stderr) will be sent to a copy/duplicate of the handle that stream 1 (stdout) is using. 1>nul data to stream 1 will be sent … Read more
2015-03-30: Edited – Missing information has been added To retrieve the current directory you can use the dynamic %cd% variable that holds the current active directory set “curpath=%cd%” This generates a value with a ending backslash for the root directory, and without a backslash for the rest of directories. You can force and ending backslash … Read more
Note the “” at the beginning and at the end! Run a program and pass a Long Filename cmd /c write.exe “c:\sample documents\sample.txt” Spaces in Program Path cmd /c “”c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe”” Spaces in Program Path + parameters cmd /c “”c:\Program Files\demo.cmd”” Parameter1 Param2 Spaces in Program Path + parameters with spaces cmd /k “”c:\batch … Read more
I think you should understand what delayed expansion is. The existing answers don’t explain it (sufficiently) IMHO. Typing SET /? explains the thing reasonably well: Delayed environment variable expansion is useful for getting around the limitations of the current expansion which happens when a line of text is read, not when it is executed. The … Read more