using RunWait(@ComSpec to do more complex dos commands

[Sl4yer]

hi script folks,

how am i suppose to write the folloing in the correct way???

RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & "dir /b /s " & GUICtrlRead($vinput) & ">c:\vzsucheErg.txt")

pls help

[Danny35d]

Take a look at the combination of single quote (') and double quote (").

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c dir /b /s "' & GUICtrlRead($vinput) & '" > c:\vzsucheErg.txt')

[Sl4yer]

Take a look at the combination of single quote (') and double quote (").

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c dir /b /s "' & GUICtrlRead($vinput) & '" > c:\vzsucheErg.txt')

hmm.. kk i got the thing with the single quotes.. but theres another point that bothers me:

what exactly does the parameter /c in combination with the @ComSpec commando do???

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c

i expected something like this:

but that's not what the parameter is about... pls help

[ksmith247]

do cmd /? and you will see:

c:\>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.

/c will perform what you tell it to then the process goes away.

[PsaltyDS]

It is quite useful when debugging that kind of script to temporarily change "/c" to "/k", which causes the "DOS Box" to stay open for you to see any resulting error messages, etc.