I am new to batch. So I was playing with commands and I found that I dont undarstand how to write multiple lines of commands in batch here is example.
start cmd.exe /k "ipconfig && whoami && getmac && netplwiz "
%windir%\system32\wuapp.exe
This will work fine but I was thinking how to make it easier for reading and make it with comments and I cant figure out how to do it. Here is what I tried.
start cmd.exe ^
/k "ipconfig ^
&& whoami ^
&& getmac ^
&& netplwiz "
%windir%\system32\wuapp.exe
So this does not work I know this symbol ^ is continuation of line. It does work for ipconfig to showup in cmd but rest commands are ignored.
Here is example with multiple lines and it works fine
set wind=%windir%
set winsys=%windir%\system32
REM Checks if any browsers are currently running. If so, they will be terminated.
start /min /wait wscript.exe %~dp0CheckforProcesses.vbs
REM Uninstalling Java JRE 6 Update 29
start /wait msiexec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83216029FF} /quiet
REM Uninstalling Java JRE 7 Update 55
start /wait msiexec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217055FF} /quiet
REM Uninstalling Java JRE 7 Update 65
start /wait msiexec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F03217065FF} /quiet
REM Installing Java JRE 7 Update 65
msiexec /i "%~dp0JRE\765\jre7_65.msi" /norestart /qn
I hope my question is clear and I am sorry if not. I know this commands in my example not useful in that contest , but this is not the point. The point I want to use multiple lines for better reading batch file code and not have 300 characters in one line (I hope it makes sense).
In my head I have only one explanation that some commands is have to be written in one line and there is no other way around.
Thank you for your time
Use the & Symbol.
See here: http://commandwindows.com/command1.htm
For example:
#echo off
ipconfig
whoami
getmac
netplwiz
echo\
echo Press the Space bar to close this window.
pause > nul
Edit: I believe a line break may also work.
Edit 2: added example.
Related
I'm trying to write a command in a bat file to run an installer exe file. The important part is to start and run the installer in silent mode. To clarify, I DO NOT want the user to see the installer and click through the wizard. They should just be able to double click the bat file and walk away. I have attempted this command in my bat file:
#echo off
REM Next command runs installer in silent mode
start /d "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" MyInstaller_7.1.51.14.exe –s –v –qn
The –s –v –qn are supposed to enable the installer to run in the background, but they are not working.
Can anyone help me improve my command in my bat file so that MyInstaller_7.1.51.14.exe is indeed running in the background, silently, with no UI or wizard of any kind visible to the user??
Please help.
You can try one of these START command options to see if it gives you the effect you want:
/B = Start application without creating a new window
/MIN = Start window minimized
Edited:
Try putting the command with its switches inside quotes:
start /d "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" "MyInstaller_7.1.51.14.exe –s –v –qn"
Another solution you can test :
Create a file RunHide.vbs and put this line in it :
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False
and then run your batch file like this :
wscript.exe "RunHide.vbs" "Install.bat"
and your batch file will be run without any windows (and maybe your Installer to)
I finally figured it out.
Here is the correct code:
#echo off
REM Next command runs installer in silent mode
start "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" MyInstaller_7.1.51.14.exe /s /v /qn
The change was between –s –v –qn and /s /v /qn where the former does not work, and the latter does.
I'm trying to uninstall a program EXE via batch file and am not having any success.
The uninstall string found in the registry is as follows:
C:\PROGRA~1\Kofax\Capture\ACUnInst.exe /Workstation
C:\PROGRA~1\Kofax\Capture\UNWISE.EXE /U
C:\PROGRA~1\Kofax\Capture\INSTALL.LOG
If I run that from CMD or batch it does nothing.
If I run C:\PROGRA~1\Kofax\Capture\UNWISE.EXE /U from CMD it will open up a dialog box to point to the INSTALL.LOG file and then proceed to uninstall.
At the end, it will ask me to click finish.
I need this to be silent, can you point me in the right direction? This is on XP and 7.
Every program that properly installs itself according to Microsoft's guidelines makes a registry entry in either HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall (for machine installs) or HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall (for user profile installs). Usually, the key for the program will be its GUID, or else the name of the program. Within that key will be an entry called UninstallString. This contains the command to execute to uninstall the program.
If you already know ahead of time what you will be uninstalling, it should be easy enough to just put that in your batch file. It gets tricky when you try to automate that process though. You can use the reg command to get data from the registry, but it returns a lot of text around the actual value of a given key, making it hard to use. You may want to experiment with using VBscript or PowerShell, as they have better options for getting data from the registry into a variable.
This might help you further.....
How to Create a script via batch file that will uninstall a program if it was installed on windows 7 64-bit or 32-bit
I've had the same problem and this is what I came up with.
Before you start using this method though, you might wanna look up the name of the application on WMIC using CMD so..
First you wanna do: WMIC product > C:\Users\"currentuser"\Desktop\allapps.txt
I'd recommend to output the command to an TXT file because it's really confusing to read it in the Cmd prompt, plus is easier to find the data you are looking for.
Now what you wanna do is find the actual name of the app... If you look at the code I put in, the app name says SkypeT because skype has "™" in the end of it and the command prompt can't interpretate that as it is.
After you got the app name, just put in the find in the 4th line and substitute, a few lines which contain my examples with skype...
Also you can probably creat a variable called %APP% and not worry as much, but at it's current it works just fine...
One thing to note! with me the msi /quiet command did not work, the program would not install or uninstall so I used /passive, which lets the users see what's going on.
#Echo off
CD %cd%
:VerInstall
for /f "tokens=12,*" %%a in ('wmic product list system ^| Find /I "SkypeT"') do (
if Errorlevel = 0 (
Echo Skype is installed! )
if Errorlevel = 1 ( Echo Skype is not installed, proceding to the installation!
Ping localhost -n 7 >nul
goto :Reinstall )
)
:Status
tasklist /nh /fi "IMAGENAME eq "APP.exe" | find ":"> nul
if errorlevel = 1 goto :force
goto :Uninstall
:Force
echo We are killing the proccess... Please do not use the application during this process!
Ping localhost -n 7 > nul
taskkill /F /FI "STATUS eq RUNNING" /IM APP* /T
echo The task was killed with success! Uninstalling...
Ping localhost -n 7 > nul
:Uninstall
cls
for /f "tokens=12,*" %%a in ('wmic product list system ^| Find /I "SkypeT"') do (
set %%a=%%a: =%
msiexec.exe /x %%a /passive /norestart
)
:DoWhile
cls
Tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq msi*" /fi "STATUS eq RUNNING" | Find ":" >nul
if errorlevel = 1 (
echo Installation in progress
Goto :DoWhile
)
echo Skype is Uninstalled
:Reinstall
msiexec.exe /i SkypeSetup.msi /passive /norestart
:reinstallLoop
Tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq msi*" /fi "STATUS eq RUNNING" | Find ":" >nul
if errorlevel = 1 (
echo Installation in progress
goto :reinstallLoop
)
echo Skype is installed
:end
cls
color 0A
Echo Done!
exit
One last thing. I used this as an Invisible EXE task, so the user couldn't interact with the command prompt and eventually close the window (I know, I know, it makes the whole echoes stupid, but it was for testing purposes).for that I used BAT to EXE converter 2.3.1, you can put everything to work on the background and it will work very nicelly. if you want to show progress to users just write START Echo "info" and replace the info with whatever you want, it will open another prompt and show the info you need.
Remember, Wmic commands sometimes take up to 20 seconds to execute since it's querying the conputer's system, so it might look like it's doing nothing at first but it will run! ;)
Good luck :)
We needed a batch file to remove a program and we couldn't use programmatic access to the registry.
For us, we needed to remove a custom MSI with a unique name. This only works for installers that use msi or integrate such that their cached installer is placed in the Package_Cache folder. It also requires a unique, known name for the msi or exe. That said, it is useful for those cases.
dir/s/b/x "c:\programdata\packag~1\your-installer.msi" > removeIt.bat
set /p RemoveIt=< removeIt.bat
echo ^"%RemoveIt%^" /quiet /uninstall > removeIt.bat
removeIt.bat
This works by writing all paths for 'your-installer.msi' to the new file 'removeIt.bat'
It then assigns the first line of that bat file to the variable 'RemoveIt'
Next, it creates a new 'removeIt.bat' that contains the path/name of the .msi to remove along with the needed switches to do so.
Finally, it runs the batch file which executes the command to uninstall the msi. This could be done with an .exe as well.
You will probably want to place the 'removeIt.bat' file into a known writable location, for us that was the temp folder.
I have this bat file and I want to minimize the cmd window when I run it:
#echo off
cd /d C:\leads\ssh
call C:\Ruby192\bin\setrbvars.bat
ruby C:\leads\ssh\put_leads.rb
I want the command window minimized immediately. Any ideas on how to do this?
There is a quite interesting way to execute script minimized by making him restart itself minimised. Here is the code to put in the beginning of your script:
if not DEFINED IS_MINIMIZED set IS_MINIMIZED=1 && start "" /min "%~dpnx0" %* && exit
... script logic here ...
exit
How it works
When the script is being executed IS_MINIMIZED is not defined (if not DEFINED IS_MINIMIZED) so:
IS_MINIMIZED is set to 1: set IS_MINIMIZED=1.
Script starts a copy of itself using start command && start "" /min "%~dpnx0" %* where:
"" - empty title for the window.
/min - switch to run minimized.
"%~dpnx0" - full path to your script.
%* - passing through all your script's parameters.
Then initial script finishes its work: && exit.
For the started copy of the script variable IS_MINIMIZED is set by the original script so it just skips the execution of the first line and goes directly to the script logic.
Remarks
You have to reserve some variable name to use it as a flag.
The script should be ended with exit, otherwise the cmd window wouldn't be closed after the script execution.
If your script doesn't accept arguments you could use argument as a flag instead of variable:
if "%1" == "" start "" /min "%~dpnx0" MY_FLAG && exit
or shorter
if "%1" == "" start "" /min "%~f0" MY_FLAG && exit
Use the start command, with the /min switch to run minimized. For example:
start /min C:\Ruby192\bin\setrbvars.bat
Since you've specified a batch file as the argument, the command processor is run, passing the /k switch. This means that the window will remain on screen after the command has finished. You can alter that behavior by explicitly running cmd.exe yourself and passing the appropriate switches if necessary.
Alternatively, you can create a shortcut to the batch file (are PIF files still around), and then alter its properties so that it starts minimized.
The only way I know is by creating a Windows shortcut to the batch file and then changing its properties to run minimized by default.
Using PowerShell you can minimize from the same file without opening a new instance.
powershell -window minimized -command ""
Also -window hidden and -window normal is available to hide completely or restore.
source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45061676/1178975
If you want to start the batch for Win-Run / autostart, I found I nice solution here https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000932.htm & https://superuser.com/questions/364799/how-to-run-the-command-prompt-minimized
cmd.exe /c start /min myfile.bat ^& exit
the cmd.exe is needed as start is no windows command that can be executed outside a batch
/c = exit after the start is finished
the ^& exit part ensures that the window closes even if the batch does not end with exit
However, the initial cmd is still not minimized.
One way to 'minimise' the cmd window is to reduce the size of the console using something like...
echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW
MODE CON COLS=30 LINES=2
You can reduce the COLS to about 18 and the LINES to 1 if you wish.
The advantage is that it works under WinPE, 32-bit or 64-bit, and does not require any 3rd party utility.
If you type this text in your bat file:
start /min blah.exe
It will immediately minimize as soon as it opens the program. You will only see a brief flash of it and it will disappear.
You could try running a script as follows
var WindowStyle_Hidden = 0
var objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
var result = objShell.Run("cmd.exe /c setrbvars.bat", WindowStyle_Hidden)
save the file as filename.js
Yet another free 3rd party tool that is capable of minimizing the console window at any time (not only when starting the script) is Tcl with the TWAPI extension:
echo package require twapi;twapi::minimize_window [twapi::get_console_window] | tclkitsh -
here tclkitsh.exe is in the PATH and is one of the tclkit-cli-*-twapi-*.exe files downloadable from sourceforge.net/projects/twapi/files/Tcl binaries/Tclkits with TWAPI/. I prefer it to the much lighter min.exe mentioned in Bernard Chen's answer because I use TWAPI for countless other purposes already.
You can minimize the command prompt on during the run but you'll need two additional scripts: windowMode and getCmdPid.bat:
#echo off
call getCmdPid
call windowMode -pid %errorlevel% -mode minimized
cd /d C:\leads\ssh
call C:\Ruby192\bin\setrbvars.bat
ruby C:\leads\ssh\put_leads.rb
One option is to find one of the various utilities that can change the window state of the currently running console window and make a call to it from within the batch script.
You can run it as the first thing in your batch script. Here are two such tools:
min.exe
http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cmdprogs.htm
cmdow
http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html
Another option that works fine for me is to use ConEmu, see http://conemu.github.io/en/ConEmuArgs.html
"C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu64.exe" -min -run myfile.bat
try these
CONSOLESTATE /Min
or:
SETCONSOLE /minimize
or:
TITLE MinimizeMePlease
FOR /F %%A IN ('CMDOW ˆ| FIND "MinimizeMePlease"') DO CMDOW %%A /MIN
http://conemu.github.io/en/ConEmuArgs.html download flagged by Virus Total.
May have Malware.
The last line in my batch file is pause. Is there any way to add a if condition to see if the script is run within command prompt or by double clicking to execute? I want to skip pause if it's running in command prompt.
...
...
if not RUN_IN_COMMAND_PROMPT (
pause
)
EDIT:
Hope to find a solution works in Windows Server 2003/2008, WinXP, Win7.
CALL :GETMYSWITCH %CMDCMDLINE%
IF /I "%MYSWITCH%" == "/C" ECHO I WAS STARTED IN THE EXPLORER & PAUSE
IF /I NOT "%MYSWITCH%" == "/C" ECHO I WAS STARTED IN A DOS SESSION
:GETMYSWITCH
SET MYSWITCH=%2
I know this is a year later but for future people searching you can use
If /I "%COMSPEC%" == %CMDCMDLINE% Goto SkipPause
pause
:SkipPause
It will skip the pause block if running from the command line and pause if running from batch file.
By definition, a shell script is always going to be run in a "command prompt". But try using the SESSIONNAME env var - it seems to NOT be present if the script was started by double-clicking instead of manually running it from a prompt.
Use the tty command.
Use the -s option and check the return value.
I am using Windows 7 64bit
Here is the code snippet I am using to start
#echo off
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay\LOLRecorder.exe"
call "G:\League of Legends\lol.launcher.exe"
exit
But unless I close LOLRecorder.exe it won't start my lol.launcher.exe.... basically I want both running and the cmd prompt exit after they start. Whats wrong here? I checked out another stackoverflow answer Here but it refers to the same method I am using.
EDIT:
With the start command it just starts 2 terminal windows and nothing starts!
#echo off
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay\LOLRecorder.exe"
start "G:\League of Legends\lol.launcher.exe"
exit
With the start command it just starts 2 terminal windows and nothing starts!
The problem is the quotes (which are unfortunately required, due to the spaces in the paths). The start command doesn't seem to like them.
You can work around this by using the short DOS names for all the directories (and remove quotes), or by specifying the directory separately and quoting it (which the start command seems to be able to deal with).
Try this:
#echo off
start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay" LOLRecorder.exe
start /d "G:\League of Legends" lol.launcher.exe
Or, if your batch files become more complicated in the future, or your program names have spaces in them, this:
#ECHO OFF
CALL :MainScript
GOTO :EOF
:MainScript
CALL :RunProgramAsync "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay\LOLRecorder.exe"
CALL :RunProgramAsync "G:\League of Legends\lol.launcher.exe"
GOTO :EOF
:RunProgramAsync
REM ~sI expands the variable to contain short DOS names only
start %~s1
GOTO :EOF
start requires parameters for window title.
Try:
start "Lolrecorder" "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay\LOLRecorder.exe"
start "Lol-Launcher" "G:\League of Legends\lol.launcher.exe"
This will give the cmd-windows started by start the title of "Lolrecorder" and "Lol-Launcher"
Specify a title and the /c switch to tell the STARTed window to go away after its command finishes.
start "recorder" /c "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOLReplay\LOLRecorder.exe"
start "LOL" /c "G:\League of Legends\lol.launcher.exe"
This reference has so far answered almost every question I've ever had about CMD.
call is for batch files only, and it waits for the callee to return. You should use the start command to start programs backgrounded. As an added bonus you can specify a priority for the process. If you need to run something as another user, use runas.
Someone wandering may be interested in checking correctness of all drives in the same time. Here is a simple .bat file for that:
#echo off
for %%a in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do if exist %%a:\ start cmd /c "echo %%a: & chkdsk %%a: & pause"
Script waits for key after checking each drive. Each drive has its own cmd window.
You should avoid checking and fixing (above is only checking) drives, where one drive is a container in another (eg. VeraCrypt container, VHD, VHDX).