Steiner

Does anyone know how to make a .bat file that will create another .bat file to a specific directory and run a command when opened? Does any one have any ideas? Thanks

InfoGeek

touch /some/dir/newfile
echo ls>>/some/dir/newfile
chmod 700 /some/dir/newfile

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Steiner

Maybe I'm jsut retarded here but no matter what I put in "dir" or anywhere I can't get the new file to be created in anything but "C:\" and I want it in "C:\Documents and Settings"

OpenLoop

@infogeek: I think Steiner is talking windows, not linux.

@steiner: Open a batch file, say 1.bat and put
If you want to append to the file every time you run 1.bat, use

Steiner

thanks alot I'll specify Windows next time, sorry about that

PhilBon

What you might want to do is include the whole path c:\dir\me.bat or do cd dir then create it.

OpenLoop

you mean like this

mackenga

Just an aside, if you don't like the artificially shortened version of the directory name, you can actually use spaces in filenames on the command line in recent versions of Windows by surrounding the filename with quotes, like:


I haven't tested this (don't have a Windows machine) but it should work. Just remember the quotes have to go around the whole path, not just the parts of it that wouldn't work without them. This works for long filenames and filenames with 'invalid' characters. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure how you include a quote in this; I'd expect doubling up the quotes would do. You probably won't have to do this anyway but I think:


should create a file called


It might not, but doubling up otherwise invalid characters in strings is usually the way to deal with them on Windows.

Hope this helps.

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