

Open windows explorer in the current directory: start. I use WPI and feels its a waste of nice coding not to use provided commandlines and use a single batchfile instead. The third line begins with start /wait Optuma.exe followed by the command lines (NOTE: to easily build the command line use the Command Line Prompt Builder. Launch a GUI application: Start applicationįor example, to launch internet explorer, we can use the below command. thats why I used 'cmd /c start' to call cmd first. A new command window will be executing the specified command and the current window will be back to prompt to take the next command. In Windows, we can do similar thing by using start command. With the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September, Charles III instantly became King. Run a command in the background like we do using ‘&’ in Linux: Run the command in the same window: Start /b command A good example use of CALL, can be found here: For START examples. This is useful for testing, to examine variables. Run a command in another window and terminate after command execution: start cmd /c commandįor example, to run a batch file in another command window and to close the window after batch file execution completes, the command will be: Start cmd /c C:\mybatchfile.bat CMD /C Run Command and then terminate CMD /K Run Command and then return to the CMD prompt. Launch new command window and run dir command.: Start dir

If the command is of a GUI application, the application will be launched with out any new command window. It probably doesn't really matter unless something goes wrong. I can't remember why that's better, but I think it has something to do with how it logs the events using cmd.exe vs calling the exe directly. This command opens a new command window and also runs the specified command. Instead, use cmd.exe like this: cmd.exe /c x:\cctk\yourtarget.exe and start in: x:\Windows\System32 or wherever everything lives in your WinPE.
