I am currently trying to make a file that will run a tree command that saves the file as the name of the active user. %userprofile% has C:\ in it and wont work. how do i set %user% to be the name of the user? if this is impossible, then is there a way i can save it as the output of a hostname command?
#echo off
cd %userprofile%
tree /a /f > "J:\folder1\%user%"
Attrib +H +S "J:\folder1\%user%"
Replace %user with %USERNAME%:
#echo off
cd %userprofile%
tree /a /f > "J:\folder1\%USERNAME%"
Attrib +H +S "J:\folder1\%USERNAME%"
Also, I suggest you look into the set command. If you run it without any parameters it will show you all the available environment variables.
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I am trying to create a batch file using another batch program using:
#echo {code here}>>batch-program.bat, but whenever I try to write code to write the contents of a SET variable to a text file, the batch program does not write the code into the other batch file, but instead writes "Echo is OFF."
Code is here:
#echo off
#echo #echo off>>apt.bat
#echo color 2A>>apt.bat
#echo echo example-batch>>apt.bat
#echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets>>apt.bat
#echo mkdir cmdInput>>apt.bat
#echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets/cmdInput>>apt.bat
#echo set /p cmdInput= cmd->>apt.bat
#echo %cmdInput%>>used-cmdInput.txt>>apt.bat
#echo pause>>apt.bat
This should have created a batch file named apt.bat, and written into the batch file:
#echo off
echo color 2A
echo example-batch
cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets
mkdir cmdInput
cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets/cmdInput
set /p cmdInput= cmd-
%cmdInput%>>used-cmdInput.txt
pause
but the 9th line (%cmdInput%>>used-cmdInput.txt)
is instead converted into the text line "Echo is OFF".
Have I done anything wrong, or is it just a really weird bug?
EDIT: I found another problem in the program, that because mkdir cmdInput is always run when apt.bat is run, so it displays a error message because of apt.bat trying to create the directory cmdInput though it already exists. apt/assets. So I have changed the code a bit, so that the directory cmdInput is created in the first "creation" batch file (the program that was used to create apt.bat). mkdir cmdInput has been removed from apt.bat.
You need to escape > with ^ but you need to escape % with %
#echo %%cmdInput%%^>^>used-cmdInput.txt>>apt.bat
unless you want to output the contents of cmdinput where you need
#echo %cmdInput%^>^>used-cmdInput.txt>>apt.bat
You can add 2>nul to the end of a md command to suppress the error message generated if the directory already exists.
You should use backslashes \ in directorynames, not forward slashes /. In winbat, the forward slash is often used for command switches. Sometimes forward slashes will work for directorynames, but backslashes always work.
You just have to "escape" the percent-signs with another % and other special chars like > with a caret) to prevent evaluation of your variable %cmdInput% (which probably is empty - therefore the Echo is off).
Also a single #echo off is sufficient. No need to add a # to every line.
#echo off
echo #echo off>>apt.bat
echo color 2A>>apt.bat
echo echo example-batch>>apt.bat
echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets>>apt.bat
echo mkdir cmdInput>>apt.bat
echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets/cmdInput>>apt.bat
echo set /p cmdInput= cmd->>apt.bat
echo %%cmdInput%%^>^>used-cmdInput.txt>>apt.bat
echo pause>>apt.bat
A more elegant way is to use only a single redirection (cmdhas to open the file for writing just once):
#echo off
(
echo #echo off
echo color 2A
echo echo example-batch
echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets
echo mkdir cmdInput
echo cd C:/Users/Default/apt/assets/cmdInput
echo set /p cmdInput= cmd-
echo %%cmdInput%%^>^>used-cmdInput.txt
echo pause
)>apt.bat
How to run a command in vmware using vmrun, command is (echo %PROGRAMFILES%) on the guest machine..
and the guest machine should return a value of the command result... how to do this??? please suggest
I needed to do something similar and found this unanswered question. Here's my solution.
#ECHO OFF
REM Set up abbreviations that we'll be using a lot.
SET VMRUN="C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws -gu Administrator -gp password
SET VMX="C:\Users\whoever\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows\Windows.vmx"
SET GUEST_COMSPEC="C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe"
REM Tried to do this in one line, but couldn't figure out the quoting.
%VMRUN% CreateTempfileInGuest %VMX% >%TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt || GOTO :CantCreate
FOR /F "delims=;" %%F IN ( %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt ) DO SET GTEMP=%%F
REM The batch file is a one-liner that echos the variable into a file.
REM It could be generated dynamically and copied to the guest
REM but I didn't want to complicate things any further.
%VMRUN% runProgramInGuest %VMX% %GUEST_COMSPEC% "/c C:\echo-ProgramFiles.bat %GTEMP%"
%VMRUN% CopyFileFromGuestToHost %VMX% %GTEMP% %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt
%VMRUN% DeleteFileInGuest %VMX% %GTEMP%
REM Do something with the result and delete the temp files.
TYPE %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt
DEL %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt
GOTO :EOF
:CantCreate
REM Provide details on any problems.
TYPE %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt 1>&2
DEL %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt
EXIT 100
And here's the batch file on the guest host. As you can see, it's pretty simple. I couldn't get redirection to work in runProgramInGuest (probably didn't experiment enough)
so I just pass the file as a command line argument.
#echo %PROGRAMFILES% >%1
Have a look at the vmrun commands here. You need the Guest OS Command runScriptInGuest.
I have not checked the command , but it should look like this. Please verify it.
vmrun -T server -h https://xps:8333/sdk -u user -p mypassword -gu administrator -gp guestpaswd
runScriptInGuest "[Vol1] win2008-1/win2008-1.vmx" "echo %PROGRAMFILES%"
I had to use runProgramInGuest
capture the output to a file
copy the file back to my host and use it
Thats the soln I used.
First of all i am a noob in programming.
I am trying to make a batch file which takes an installed directory of a program as user input when run for the first time (means it should not ask for the directory the second time it is run). By searching for various scripts, i reached till here,
#echo off
Echo =============================================
echo Directory
Echo =============================================
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
set /p mypath=Please specify install directory;
Echo %mypath% ----was what you typed
pause
echo start>temp.txt
echo %mypath%>>temp.txt
echo \programfolder\program.exe>>temp.txt
echo -argument -argument>>temp.txt
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set FINAL=
for /f %%a in (temp.txt) do (
set FINAL=!FINAL!%%a
)
echo %FINAL%>input.txt
del /q temp.txt
Pause
start "<input.txt"
This saves the input path in the "input.txt" text file, and runs the program the next time it is launched.
I want the text file to have the saved path as "start driveletter:\foldername\foldername with spaces\programfolder\program.exe" -arguments
However the "start", "program folder", "program.exe" and "-arguments" are fixed.
The user input path should get saved in- %mypath%.
The does what you asked, I think:
#echo off
if exist "go.bat" go.bat
set /p "mypath=Please specify install directory; "
Echo "%mypath%" ----was what you typed
pause
>"go.bat" echo #start "" "%mypath%\programfolder\program.exe" -argument -argument
I have a for loop in a batch file:
#echo off
set logpath1=C:\path\to\first\log
set logpath2=C:\path\to\second\log
FOR %%G IN (%logpath1% %logpath2%) DO (
pushd %%G
pushd ..\
for %%D IN (%CD%) DO SET "dirname=%%~nxD"
popd
echo Will prefix files in %%G with %supername%
:: do operations.
popd
)
However, this doesn't seem to change my working directory. If I run the script from
C:\tmp\path\to
then I get
Will prefix files in C:\path\to\first\log with tmp
Will prefix files in C:\path\to\second\log with tmp
My purpose is to zip up log files in multiple directories. I've tried chdir, cd /d, and &~pd0 instead of %CD%, and searched high and low. Can anyone tell my why this doesn't work??
Put
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
at the top of your batch file and use !CD! instead of %CD% in the loop. Depending on where %supername% is set you may need to use ! there too.
I'm wanting to change the icon of every sub folder in a particular directory, can I do this by means of a loop similar to the %%~nxf used for files (I’m after folders not files)
attrib -h -r C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
echo [.ShellClassInfo] >C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
echo IconFile= C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\ICO\FolderIcon.ico >>C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
echo InfoTip=EXE file location... >>C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
echo IconIndex=0 >>C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
attrib +h +r C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE\desktop.ini
attrib +r C:\ICT\AutoCAD_2010\Customisations\AO2\EXE
Of cause do this a couple of hundred times in a batch and well you get the idea.
You may process folders (not files) with /D switch of for command:
for /D %%a in (*) do echo Folder: %%a
You may also combine /R with /D to process every subfolder beneath the given path. For further details, type: for /?