If I modify or add an environment variable I have to restart the command prompt. Is there a command I could execute that would do this without restarting CMD? 26 s 26 On Windows 7/8/10, you can install Chocolatey, which has a script for this built-in. After installing Chocolatey, just type refreshenv.
I need a way to recursively delete a folder and its children. Is there a prebuilt tool for this, or do I need to write one? DEL /S doesn’t delete directories. DELTREE was removed from Windows 2000+ 24 s 24 RMDIR or RD if you are using the classic Command Prompt (cmd.exe): rd /s /q … Read more
$ adb –help -s SERIAL use device with given serial (overrides $ANDROID_SERIAL) $ adb devices List of devices attached emulator-5554 device 7f1c864e device $ adb shell -s 7f1c864e error: more than one device and emulator 14 s 14 Use the -s option BEFORE the command to specify the device, for example: adb -s 7f1c864e shell … Read more
I am looking for a way to delete all files older than 7 days in a batch file. I’ve searched around the web, and found some examples with hundreds of lines of code, and others that required installing extra command line utilities to accomplish the task. Similar things can be done in BASH in just … Read more
I’m trying to redirect all output (stdout + stderr) of a DOS command to a single file: C:\>dir 1> a.txt 2> a.txt The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Is it possible, or should I just redirect to two separate files? 7 s 7 You want: dir > … Read more
I’m trying to get my commit-build.bat to execute other .BAT files as part of our build process. Content of commit-build.bat: “msbuild.bat” “unit-tests.bat” “deploy.bat” This seems simple enough, but commit-build.bat only executes the first item in the list (msbuild.bat). I have run each of the files separately with no problems. 18 s 18 Use: call msbuild.bat … Read more
As I understand it, .bat is the old 16-bit naming convention, and .cmd is for 32-bit Windows, i.e., starting with NT. But I continue to see .bat files everywhere, and they seem to work exactly the same using either suffix. Assuming that my code will never need to run on anything older than NT, does … Read more
I am running a program and want to see what its return code is (since it returns different codes based on different errors). I know in Bash I can do this by running echo $? What do I do when using cmd.exe on Windows? 7 s 7
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I have a batch file that runs several python scripts that do table modifications. I want to have users comment out the 1-2 python scripts that they don’t want to run, rather than removing them from the batch file (so the next user knows these scripts exist as options!) I also want to add comments … Read more
