In Windows, how do you access arguments passed when a batch file is run? For example, let's say I have a program named hello.bat. When I enter hello -a at a Windows command line, how do I let my
If both .bat and .cmd versions of a script (test.bat, test.cmd) are in the same folder and you run the script without the extension (test), by default the .bat version of the script will run, even on 64-bit Windows 7.
The answers provided by both Kerrek SB and Ed Greaves will execute the target file under the admin user but, if the file is a Command script (.bat file) or VB script (.vbs file) which attempts to operate on the normal-login user’s environment (such as changing registry entries), you may not get the desired results because the environment ...
The current directory for the batch file Template.bat is the current directory of the current process. In case of Template.bat requires that the directory of this batch file is the current directory, the batch file Template.bat should contain after @echo off as second line the following command line: cd /D "%~dp0"
Is there a way to step through a .bat script? The thing is, I have a build script , which calls a lot of other scripts, and I would like to see what is the order in which they are called, so that I...
I have a bat file like this: ipconfig That will print out the IP info to the screen, but before the user can read that info CMD closes itself. I believe that CMD assumes the script has finished, ...
I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file. Here's what the command line looks like: test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-lo...
Apparently this is obvious for everyone but I didn't know that this only works when executed from a .bat file, i.e. it doesn't work straight from the command line.
