Re^2: No command window output when running script

Hi Rob,

Thank you for this reply. It makes perfect sense. I wasn't storing what was returned and printing it, so nothing was output to the screen. Returning and outputting are not inherently equivalent.

I just tried out your example. Cd doesn't return a value so nothing is output with this example, but when I used dir instead I got a nice screenful of info. :-D I'm not on my work computer right now so I can't try out my tf command yet, but I will give it a try later. Thank you again for the answer.

Jennie

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Re^3: No command window output when running script by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 29, 2012 at 23:26 UTC
Cd doesn't return a value so nothing is output with this example Interesting ... and there's probably a good reason for that, but I don't know what it is. Certainly, the behaviour you're seeing doesn't conform to the documentation I get for cd, which begins with: `C:\_32\C>cd /? Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHDIR [/D] [drive:][path] CHDIR [..] CD [/D] [drive:][path] CD [..] .. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory. Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive +. Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory. .....` [download] Perhaps you're running in a different shell (I use cmd.exe), or perhaps your cmd.exe shell finds a different 'cd' implementation to run. To force your cmd.exe shell to use its own implementation, I think you just need to involve a shell metacharacter in the command - eg: `cd <nul` [download] Does that command print out the current directory for you ? (Admittedly this has nothing to do with the subject you initially raised ... but I find it a little bit interesting.) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: No command window output when running script by JennieInMI (Acolyte) on Dec 30, 2012 at 01:33 UTC
Hi Rob, I apologize. My error. I do run cmd.exe and just reran your code example. cd was, indeed, returning a value. However, since the returned value looked exactly like the command prompt only minus the > sign I just didn't realize that it wasn't the command prompt. I'm not generally dense. I don't know what's wrong with me here lately. Anyway, your example was fine. I just messed up reviewing the result. Thank you again for the answer. Jennie Update: After messing around with the syntax a little I did finally get it to work at the command line. Thanks again Rob.	[reply]