Does someone knows how to create a file .txt on CMD?, I need like an order or steps to create it; I see that i need to write {echo "text"> "name".txt} but, i mean the content has not order and sometimes it doesn´t respond correctly.
Thank you guys
Well, I know that I was not so clearly 'bout what I wanted to do, and I'm sorry, but, your advices also help me alot, so, Thank u.
Easy way to do this
echo "abcdef" > a.txt
echo "12345" >> a.txt
the a.txt content will be
"abcdef"
"12345"
Try creating a variable with the text first like as follows:
set /p txt=Your Text Content;
echo %txt% > "Location\textfile.txt"
EDIT: If you are meaning that the newline doesnt appear all you have to do is the following:
echo "FirstLine" > "Location\textfile.txt"
echo. "SecondLine" > "Location\textfile.txt"
echo. instead of echo will start a new line.
echo your_text_here > filename.extension
If you want to create a binary file:
C:\>type nul > Diff1.vhd
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So I plan to make a little file downloader in batch and I want to display something like the latest version number. I would like to create a .txt file with something like v1.2 etc and then when you run the batch script, it uses the "echo" command and echoes exactly what it says in the text file. I've tried googling this but no luck. Thanks in advanced!
You can put this in your batch file:
#echo off
pushd "%~dp0"
type "version.txt"
This will echo out the contents of version.txt, which is on the same direction of the normal Batch file.
If you want to go more complex with a save feature telling the program what happened and stuff, do this to save:
(
echo %Version%
echo %log%
) > Save.prgmsav
That saves the version and log variable, this is how you load them:
< Save.prgmsav (
set /p Version=
set /p log=
)
The .prgmsav can be .txt too. The save name can be a variable, as well.
First of all thank you for this site, I'm a terrible coder and so i need your help with making a batch script, i try to extract only lines that contains Copy " in that line from a text file by using findstr which actually works without that whitespace and double quote. But it will extract the line with "Copy and Help" too which i don't need.
Example:
My text contains (source.txt)
a
asd Copy and help with these command prompt:
a
asd Copy "c:\.." a b c(white space)
a
asd Copy and help with these command prompt:
Copy "d:\.." a c c(tab space)
avs
Copy "e:\.." a a c
vvddf
Output file (op.txt) (should be)
Copy "c:\.." a b c
Copy "d:\.." a c c
Copy "e:\.." a a c
After my original code I tried to usefindstr /c:"Copy ^"" > op.txtbut this doesn't work. To let the findstr know to search a line containing Copy " Copy[whitespace][double quote]
Updated section
First off my required batch script is working from help by foxidrive. There is still some tweak to do, but i will post it as another question. This question is answered.
This is my updated code for now.
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET source="details.txt"
IF EXIST %source% (
FIND /i "copy " <%source% |FIND "\" >op.txt
) ELSE (
Exit
)
Thanks foxidrive for the start off and solving my first issue.
Sorry for my English, it's poor like my coding
A simplistic solution is to use this
find ":\" <source.txt >op.txt
Or this is another workaround:
find ":\" <source.txt |find /i "copy " >op.txt
I want to create a another file output from the batch file that I am running, meaning the raw content is inside it. Inside this batch file it would do a while or for loop until it has found the "end" or any unique word that I add at the end of the content.
I don't want to simply copy the file(which has important content) as this will expose information. Then run it by calling the file via batch.
code:
-start of batch
-check if the file a.txt exist del a.txt
-starts to create the a.txt file
>start of content:
>"the quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog"
>lynx: unique word
>end of content
-writes the content to a.txt using for loop or while until it finds the unique word
-runs the a.txt file
-deletes the a.txt file
-exit
Hope someone can help. Thank you!
Or if someone can suggest a better way to do it. I would appreciate it
The line with the for command itself will need quotes.
For loops work fine until they hit a line that contains quote marks then everything turns to custard...
You can't get there form here.
Maybe try vbscript instead?
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
if exist a.txt del a.txt
copy nul a.txt > nul & :: Not needed, but in your specs
set line[1]=This is what you asked for.
set line[2]=Not really the best method.
set line[3]=But it will work.
set line[4]=
set line[5]=linux
set line[6]=[end]
for /l %%i in (1,1,1000) do (
if "!line[%%i]!"=="linux" goto :end
if "!line[%%i]!"=="[end]" goto :end
if "!line[%%i]!"=="" echo.>>a.txt
if NOT "!line[%%i]!"=="" echo !line[%%i]!>>a.txt
)
:end
:: Broken Out Of Loop
ren a.txt a.bat
call a.bat
del a.bat
Using the line[n] method is rather wasteful of memory, I would reccomend moving the data from one file to another.
How would i add this text to a file because it seems to get confused with the other greater than less than signs thanks
echo >> C:\docs\thisdoc.txt
If I've got you right, you want to write the text "echo >> c:\docs\thisdoc.txt" in a file? Then you need to escape the ">"characters with "^":
echo echo ^>^> C:\docs\thisdoc.txt > mybatch.cmd
I am making a .bat file, and I would like it to write ASCII art into a text file.
I was able to find the command to append a new line to the file when echoing text, but when I read that text file, all I see is a layout-sign and not a space. I think it would work by opening that file with Word or even WordPad, but I would like it to work on any computer, even if that computer only has Notepad (which is mostly the case).
How can I open the text file in a certain program (i.e. WordPad) or write a proper space character to the file?
EDIT:
I found that it is the best way to use:
echo <line1> > <filename>
echo <line2> >> <filename>
P.S. I used | in my ASCII art, so it crashed, Dumb Dumb Dumb :)
echo Hello, > file.txt
echo. >>file.txt
echo world >>file.txt
and you can always run:
wordpad file.txt
on any version of Windows.
On Windows 2000 and above you can do:
( echo Hello, & echo. & echo world ) > file.txt
Another way of showing a message for a small amount of text is to create file.vbs containing:
Msgbox "Hello," & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "world", 0, "Message"
Call it with
cscript /nologo file.vbs
Or use wscript if you don't need it to wait until they click OK.
The problem with the message you're writing is that the vertical bar (|) is the "pipe" operator. You'll need to escape it by using ^| instead of |.
P.S. it's spelled Pwned.
You can easily append to the end of a file, by using the redirection char twice (>>).
This will copy source.txt to destination.txt, overwriting destination in the process:
type source.txt > destination.txt
This will copy source.txt to destination.txt, appending to destination in the process:
type source.txt >> destination.txt
Maybe this is what you want?
echo foo > test.txt
echo. >> test.txt
echo bar >> test.txt
results in the following within test.txt:
foo
bar
echo "text to echo" > file.txt
Use the following:
echo (text here) >> (name here).txt
Ex. echo my name is jeff >> test.txt
test.txt
my name is jeff
You can use it in a script too.
I always use copy con to write text, It so easy to write a long text
Example:
C:\COPY CON [drive:][path][File name]
.... Content
F6
1 file(s) is copied