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OK my second attempt is just start an asynchronous task using the same window:
Code:start /b attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s
Good enough?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostOk chaps, please will one of you help me with this?
Code:start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s
What do I have to do to fix this?
Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!
Code:start "attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s"
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostI was using the "start" command to open a window for each of the tasks that I wish to run.
Thanks for the feedback all.
Chugnut, "cmd /c" doesn't start a new window on VISTA it just starts the CMD interpreter in the same window.
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You could alway put the "attrib *.jpg > C:\imagelist.txt /s" in c:\temp\churchill.cmd for example, and then "start c:\temp\churchill.cmd". This seems to do the job but it's not very talented, I'll grant you. Chances are you would only need to do this for commands which require redirection to a file though.
There's bound to be a more graceful way to do it however.
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I find it easier to knock up stuff I used to do in the command file in Excel VBA. Bulk renaming of files, file searches, auto backup based on date, searching in text files etc, all much easier than cmd and can put results on sheet if you need to.
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I was using the "start" command to open a window for each of the tasks that I wish to run.
Thanks for the feedback all.
Chugnut, "cmd /c" doesn't start a new window on VISTA it just starts the CMD interpreter in the same window.
Code:C:\Windows\system32>cmd /? Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF] [[/S] [/C | /K] string] /C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates /K Carries out the command specified by string but remains /S Modifies the treatment of string after /C or /K (see below) /Q Turns echo off /D Disable execution of AutoRun commands from registry (see below) /A Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be ANSI /U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be Unicode /T:fg Sets the foreground/background colors (see COLOR /? for more info) /E:ON Enable command extensions (see below) /E:OFF Disable command extensions (see below) /F:ON Enable file and directory name completion characters (see below) /F:OFF Disable file and directory name completion characters (see below) /V:ON Enable delayed environment variable expansion using ! as the delimiter. For example, /V:ON would allow !var! to expand the variable var at execution time. The var syntax expands variables at input time, which is quite a different thing when inside of a FOR loop.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostOk chaps, please will one of you help me with this?
Code:start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s
What do I have to do to fix this?
Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!
cmd /c attrib *.jpg > C:\imagelist.txt /s
I've just done that on XP (no Vista here) and it works whereas the start version did the same as yours.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostOk chaps, please will one of you help me with this?
Code:start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s
What do I have to do to fix this?
Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!
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Should work if you lose the 'start' at the beginning of the command line - do you need to run the command in a seperate window?
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Vista Command Line Help
Ok chaps, please will one of you help me with this?
Code:start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s
What do I have to do to fix this?
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