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Create a new batch file

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

touch /some/dir/newfile

echo ls>>/some/dir/newfile

chmod 700 /some/dir/newfile

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"

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

@steiner: Open a batch file, say 1.bat and put

echo some command >c:\docume~1\file2.bat

If you want to append to the file every time you run 1.bat, use

echo some command >>c:\docume~1\file2.bat

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

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

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Originally Posted by PhilBon

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

you mean like this

echo some command >>c:\docume~1\file2.bat

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:

echo some command >> "C:\Documents and Settings\file2.bat"

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:

C:\> echo test > "file with ""quotes"" in name"

should create a file called

file with "quotes" in name

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

Hope this helps.