I have to run cmd / c from a program, run the start command xx.exe, and I capture the result (there xx.exe?). until everything is right, however, remains open the console with the error popup. how can I close the console with the error?
Usually win32 applications will close the command prompt after execution. If this isn't the case with what you're trying to run, you could:
Run it from Windows "Run" option (Windows button+R) than your program name and path in prompt.
Run it from a batch file, like so:
runMe.bat:
START "" "C:\windows\notepad.exe"
EXIT`
Than just run runMe.bat from wherever. Notice the 'exit' command that closes the command prompt after execution.
Read more about batch files, the start command, and this issue here, and there.
Good luck!
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I'm running a built meteor app on my local machine, and to quickly boot it up, I have a .bat file that runs the following:
start "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongo.exe"
set ROOT_URL=http://localhost
set MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp
set PORT=80
node main.js
When I run the cmd to start up mongo.exe it opens up a command prompt with nothing in it, as if I opened it manually.
So now, I really would like to know: why? and how to prevent this.
By default startopens up a new command line window since it assumes your command must be run with cmd.exe. If you do not like to see the window try adding /B to your start command.
See start /? on the command line to check on other options you might find interesting.
When Executable writes to console (using the -console option), if I press "enter" a second time, it bring me back to the command prompt even though Executable is still running in the background. How we can force it to output everything to the console and only when done should it return to command prompt?
The installer on windows is a GUI executable, it cannot make the console wait for the process to finish. There are two ways around this:
1) Select the "Windows console executable" property of the installer on the Installer->Screens & Actions step. Drawback: When starting the installer from the explorer, a console will be opened.
2) Start the installer on the command line like this:
cmd /c installer.exe -c
When using the CMD prompt, you can "type ahead" commands and when the current operation is finished, the command will be issued to the CMD prompt.
When you execute the following in CMD, foo will run, then bar will run. However in PowerShell, it will ignore bar.exe<ENTER> because foo is running. Is there a way around this? It's pretty frustrating to have to wait for a command to finish before executing a subsequent command.
foo.exe<ENTER> (takes 60 secs)
bar.exe<ENTER>
It depends on the host. In the console host (powershell.exe) it works the same as cmd (the way you want it to). In ISE (powershell_ise.exe) it does not.
You won't be able to change this behavior.
Your workaround then is to use the console host instead of ISE for interactively typing commands.
If you know you're going to run both, write foo.exe; bar.exe
Or write them both in the ISE edit window, and press F5 to run.
I have a small problem with my Powershell script.
What do i want:
open CMD via PSEXEC on a remote machine, and work in this "remoteshell" as if i am in front of this machine. There is a commandline tool which i'd like to run, which requires user input after its started (it runs a own "shell")
What the problem is:
i utilize PSEXEC 2.11 with the following command
.\PSEXEC \\$Global:Endpoint -s -accepteula cmd
Cmd gets started as expected.
When i enter the name of the tool (lets call it tool.exe) the inital screen is loaded. But when the shell appears, nothing happens. I can enter commands but there will be no feedback...
C:\windows\System32>tool.exe
Testing Tool V1.0
Command? >
Then nothing can be entered anymore...
I even cannot stop it by pressing CTRL+C. I need to close the application window to force it to close. :(
Any ideas? Are there programs which cannot run in "user interaction" mode?
For reasons, it cannot run as a window visible on the remote endpoint. It needs to run silent.
I have a program which requires Administrative privileges that I want to run from a batch file. What command can I run from command line will run my program with administrative privileges? I'm okay with the pop-up window asking for permission. Additionally, the file needs to be able to run from anywhere on a computer so additional files are run from ./src. The problem is that if I right-click and choose "run as administrator" it changes my current directory so ./src no longer works. If I disable UAC on my machine then everything runs fine. Thank you!
Look here: https://superuser.com/a/269750/139371
elevate seems to be working, calling
C:\Utils\bin.x86-64\elevate.exe -k dir
executes dir in the "current directory" where elevate was called.
This is tough, Microsoft provides no utility to do this (mostly because giving a batch file that ability breaks security), except for RunAs, and that requires that the Administrator account be activated.
There IS a JScript program that can do something similar, by using SendKeys to open the Start menu and type cmd[CTL]+[SHIFT]+[ENTER] which will launch a Command-Line shell.
Save the following as as .js file, like StartAdmin.js:
var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
WshShell.SendKeys("^{esc}cmd^+{ENTER}"); The equivilent of [CTRL]+[ESC] cmd [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ENTER]
To run StartAdmin.js from a batch file, you will need the following line:
wscript StartAdmin.js
To launch from a particular directory and launch a batch file, change line 2 in StartAdmin.js to something like:
WshShell.SendKeys("^{esc}cmd /C "cd %userprofile% & batchfile.bat"^+{ENTER}");
/C switch tells it to run the commands, then close the command-line window.
/K would leave the command window open after it exited the batch file.
To help you understand the SendKeys commands:
+=[Shift Key]
^=[Control Key]
{esc}=[Escape Key]
{enter}=[Enter Key]
To learn more about using CMD.EXE, type CMD /? at the command prompt.
This is a very untidy and ugly way to do it, but it's the only way I know how using only the tools that come with Windows.