Vista Command Line Help

**voodooflux** · 27 January 2009, 10:28

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?

**pmeswani** · 27 January 2009, 10:30

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Ok chaps, please will one of you help me with this?

Code:

start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s

Why when the command line window is opened is the data displayed in the window and not redirected to the relevant file?

What do I have to do to fix this?

Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!

if you are in command line, you don't need the start command. also, put the /s before the > sign and see if that works.

**Chugnut** · 27 January 2009, 10:34

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Ok chaps, please will one of you help me with this?

Code:

start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s

Why when the command line window is opened is the data displayed in the window and not redirected to the relevant file?

What do I have to do to fix this?

Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!

If you want the separate window, just replace "start" with "cmd /c".

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.

**Churchill** · 27 January 2009, 10:53

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.

**xoggoth** · 27 January 2009, 11:12

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.

**Chugnut** · 27 January 2009, 11:42

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

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.

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You're quite right, sorry about that.

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.

**Ardesco** · 27 January 2009, 16:03

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Ok chaps, please will one of you help me with this?

Code:

start attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s

Why when the command line window is opened is the data displayed in the window and not redirected to the relevant file?

What do I have to do to fix this?

Churchill - In "Can't be arsed googling" mode!

try:

Code:

start "attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s"

**Churchill** · 28 January 2009, 09:34

Originally posted by Ardesco View Post

try:

Code:

start "attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s"

It doesn't work, already tried that. It just creates a window with the title "attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s"

You should've tried it before you posted the

**Ardesco** · 28 January 2009, 11:51

OK my second attempt is just start an asynchronous task using the same window:

Code:

start /b attrib *.jpg > c:\imagelist.txt /s

Won't open it in a new window, but should allow you to set off a series of commands at the same time that dump the result to a text file.

Good enough?

Vista Command Line Help