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
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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...
Note that if you get wacky errors executing like this for scripts that work when the script is invoked from within PowerShell, you might need to use pwsh.exe in your bat file instead of powershell.exe.
20 To call a .bat file within a .bat file, use call foo.bat (Yes, this is silly, it would make more sense if you could call it with foo.bat, like you could from the command prompt, but the correct way is to use call.)
