How to send command to Command prompt

[ThomasQ]

Hi!

Just a quick n00b question. How do I use autoit to type and send commands trough command prompt (CMD)?

I'm just trying to encorperate one action in my script.

Thanks in advance!!

[TurionAltec]

Hi!

Just a quick n00b question. How do I use autoit to type and send commands trough command prompt (CMD)?

I'm just trying to encorperate one action in my script.

Thanks in advance!!

What action are you trying to incorporate?

You can use Run,Runwait, shellexecute, shellexecutewait directly to run any command outside of the CMD interpreter (ipconfig, netstat, etc).

If it is an internal CMD command (copy, dir, etc) you can invoke the CMD interpreter with the @ComSpec macro:

Run(@ComSpec & ' /k dir c:\', '', @SW_HIDE)

Run(@ComSpec & ' /c dir c:\', '', @SW_HIDE)

/k will keep cmd open when done with the command, /c will cause it to close.

If you need to interact with a console app which uses standard input/output, look at run combined with $STDOUT_CHILD options, in conjunction with stdoutread, StdinWrite.

Alternatively you can also blindly use "send" on an open console window.