I am trying to install through batch file..
ECHO OFF
ECHO Installing MySoftware . . .
"%~dp0\MySoftware.exe" /S /v/qn"UPGRADEADD=link goes here"
pause
but it fails to install.
Not much info to go on. What you have will not work if executed from a UNC drive and may not work if you 'Run as administrator' because the current directory gets changed. Try this. Of course that may not fix it and further details would be nice.
#ECHO OFF
PUSHD "%~dp0"
ECHO Installing MySoftware . . .
"MySoftware.exe" /S /v/qn"UPGRADEADD=link goes here"
Adding to my answer based on comments provided.
Presumably your bat file is in the same folder as MySoftware.exe. If it takes that long, it sounds like the install is working. Try doing
"MySoftware.exe" /?
That may give you a help screen to tell you more about the arguments beng passed. Also, try what you are now doing without the /S (which probably specifies a "silent" install... which is why you don't see anything.
PART 1 - If you want to create a "Setup" File in batch.
Maybe it works, but this is will be very hard to you for done this program.
Let's call the EXE File "Game1:
I will recommend you to take all the Game1 file's code (Maybe you can use the program Notepad++ for do this) after you taked Game1's code do this like i writing here
Let's say that the code of Game1 is:
ABC
Copy the code, then go to the batch file.
The "Setup" file of Game1 HAVE to come with a empty EXE file.
You can make a empty EXE file with notepad - just save the file as:
Name.exe
Then you doing at the batch file script this thing:
set %something%=ABC
After you done this you adding this to the batch script:
Echo %something% >> Name.exe
Don't forget to name the EXE file at the name of the program / game.
And now, if this message didn't help to you, maybe you need to make a EXE from batch file.
PART 2 - If you want to make an EXE file of batch file.
Open the start menu of Windows and search this:
IExpress
Don't let the computer search for you the full name, its working only if you wtiting the full name.
After you search IExpress, click on "Activate Command".
Click on Next, Don't change the first options.
Click on "Extract files only" and click on Next.
Name the EXE program and click Next.
Stay on "No prompt." and continue.
Now you can display a program License. if you want do a txt file and choose the display option.
Add batch files and click Next.
click on the option you want and click Next.
If you want a finish message, click on display message and write the message.
Here browse where the EXE will be and choose your options, click Next.
click Next.
Wow that's was super-long! Hope I helped you!
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I have hearing problems, so I always download a movie with its Subs.
The srt file must be changed to the same name as the movie name, e.g.
In the movie folder will be 2 files:
Spiderman.2022. 1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.mp4
English.srt
English.srt must become -> Spiderman.2022. 1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.srt
I have a batch file that when run from the same folder changes a srt to the same name as any video in the same folder
Here is the srt.bat script:
for %%i in (*.mp4 *.avi *.mpg *.flv *.mkv) do rename *.srt "%%~ni.srt"
I would like to not have to copy the srt.bat file manually into the folder and execute and then delete it. Rather, I would like to be able to right click on the folder or in a blank spot in the folder and have a shortcut to automate this process I do so often.
I placed the batch file for storage and execution here:
C:\Console\srt.bat
I did some digging and found this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\console2]
#="Open Console2 Here"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\console2\command]
#="C:\\Console\\srt.bat -d \"\"%V\"\""
It adds a right button shortcut called console2 which executes srt.bat.
When I right click on a space in the required folder and choose the console2 shortcut, I see the black window open up very briefly and execute, but the name of the video file remains unchanged. I think it runs the srt.bat but the effect is not directed at the open folder.
How do I correct this?
Any other ideas on how to achieve my desired effect would also be appreciated.
Working Solution thanks to MOfi!
working reg export exported looks like this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\Rename subtitles file]
#="Rename subtitles file in folder"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\Rename subtitles file\command]
#="cmd.exe /D /C C:\\Console\\srt.bat \"%V\""
For working srt.bat file like this:
for %%i in ("%~1\*.mp4" "%~1\*.avi" "%~1\*.mpg" "%~1\*.flv" "%~1\*.mkv") do rename "%~1\*.srt" "%%~ni.srt"
Many thanks to Mofi for your patience and kindness of your time and knowledge!!
I have got a batch script that ends with the following:
TITLE ALL DONE. You can close this window
ECHO.
ECHO ALL DONE. You can close this window
ECHO.
Pause
EXIT
it works fine when i run just the bat file (see below)
All Done! You can close this window.
Press any key to continue . . .
But when i create a self extracting exe out of the same bat script it wouldn't show this window after the execution and would just exit without any proper message.
Since the script works fine by itself, i am a bit lost on what could be causing this? How could i make the self extracting exe to show that window and prompt the user to close it like above.
It depends on the content of the executable, if your including other files to your archive be sure the program you run after extraction is your batch file.
If your only including that file i suggest you use BatToExe Converter
much more efficient way to build it, also it supports commandline, including other files, product info, admin manifest etc
I download a file from http://msysgit.github.io/. The file got on to my harddrive without any problem. But now I can't move it, delete it, or even do anything with it. It seem like it crash right on the spot. How do I remove it from my pc?
First I tried moving the file and it did nothing. It just sit there a 0%. So I try stopping it. It didn't work. I relog in to my window. Than I try delete it. Same problem as before. I right click on file and than I click on properties. Nothing has happened.
From here: this manual page To power through you might need to open the command prompt as an administrator. I do that by clicking on Start, then in the "run" box I type "cmd". You will see cmd.exe show up. Right-click on it and choose run as administrator.
Here is the command to force delete a file that is read-only:
DEL /F C:\examples\MyFile.txt
Here is another interesting quote from that page:
Undeletable Files
Files are sometimes created with the very long filenames or reserved
names: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL
To delete these use the syntax: DEL \.\C:\somedir\LPT1 Alternatively
SUBST a drive letter to the folder containing the file.
If a file (or folder) still appears to be 'undeletable' this is often
caused by the indexing service. Stopping the service will often enable
the file to be deleted.
I found a way. I used cmd and did a force delete. For other who have this problem:
Force delete using Windows
Enter the command prompt (Start-> Run-> Cmd). use cd
/d {path to folder}. than do enter ‘del {filename}’. Give it about 5min or less...
I came across a way to convert my .bat with dependencies on tool to an .exe file. However when I try using the script and run the .exe created, I always getting an error. Seems I modified the script incorrectly.
Anyone can help, please?
Here's the code with my modifications:
#ECHO OFF
ECHO Make EXE From BAT
ECHO Written by: Jason Faulkner
ECHO SysadminGeek.com
ECHO.
ECHO.
REM Usage:
MakeExeFromBat BatFileToConvert -bat MyProgram.bat
REM
REM Required Parameters:
BatFileToConvert -save MyProgram
REM Source batch file to use to produce the output Exe file.
REM
REM Optional Parameters:
IncludeFile -include Tool.exe
REM Additional files to include in the Exe file.
REM You can include external tools used by the batch file so they are available on the executing machine.
SETLOCAL
REM Configuration (no quotes needed):
SET PathTo7Zip=C:\Desktop\
REM ---- Do not modify anything below this line ----
SET OutputFile="%~n1.exe"
SET SourceFiles="%TEMP%\MakeEXE_files.txt"
SET Config="%TEMP%\MakeEXE_config.txt"
SET Source7ZFile="%Temp%\MakeEXE.7z"
REM Remove existing files
IF EXIST %OutputFile% DEL %OutputFile%
REM Build source archive
ECHO "%~dpnx1" > %SourceFiles%
:AddInclude
IF {%2}=={} GOTO EndInclude
ECHO "%~dpnx2" >> %SourceFiles%
SHIFT /2
GOTO AddInclude
:EndInclude
"%PathTo7Zip%\7za.exe" a %Source7ZFile% #%SourceFiles%
REM Build config file
ECHO ;!#Install#!UTF-8! > %Config%
ECHO RunProgram="%~nx1" >> %Config%
ECHO ;!#InstallEnd#! >> %Config%
REM Build EXE
COPY /B "%PathTo7Zip%\7zsd.sfx" + %Config% + %Source7ZFile% %OutputFile%
REM Clean up
IF EXIST %SourceFiles% DEL %SourceFiles%
IF EXIST %Config% DEL %Config%
IF EXIST %Source7ZFile% DEL %Source7ZFile%
ENDLOCAL
This doesn't really convert a bat file to an exe. It just creates a selfextracting archive (exe) which contains the bat file. On execution it extracts the file to a temporary folder and runs it from there. You can even extract the bat from the exe just by using 7zip/rar/winzip or any other archiver.
If you want to convert a bat to an exe for real you should use one of the tools from the web (like this one: http://www.f2ko.de/index.php?lang=en) or concider using a simple script language like AutoIt.
If you pick the second, you can simply execute your bat code with Run("put your bat code in here") and you can compile your script to a "real" exe file.
For an alternative approach, you can basically do the same thing as described in the accepted answer (making a 7z-SFX) with WinRAR. That way, you can also do it with a GUI, and I will try to add some more useful information.
Actually, you can also use the latter approach to generate portable applications and it also works with "converting" every runnable (or openable) file into an .exe.
If you need that "portability hack", you should unpack your .exe or .msi installer with Universal Extractor. Details can be found in this Article, Step 1 to 4. Newer Versions of 7zip or WinRAR also come with comparable features.
Now you add all needed files to the archive. In the easiest case, this is just your .bat script or whatever file you want to "convert" into an .exe applivation. (Step 5 here)
Steps 6 and 7 are just some Settings for the SFX-Archive, 8 is the interesting one, as you select what you actually want to run there. Input the name of your (.bat-)file.
Step 9 lets you select where to unpack to - you do this setting manually and programmatically in the MakeExeFromBat.bat-script.
After this process you created a Portable App in SFX archiever form, enjoy
The word "converting" was put into quotation marks, because running that .exe actually works like this:
The contents of the (SFX-)EXE file are extracted from the "archive part" to a directory as the specified temp directory.
( The config file generated by the script is read. )
The file, that was previously contained in the EXE file and then extracted, is now executed in a new window.
a) This file could besides a .bat be anything - as e.g. an image, a MP3 or a video
b) or also a Python Script (of course your OS needs to know how to deal with that file.
Once finished, the temp files are removed.
You can also derive some limitations from that. If you have a .bat that needs the content of the working directory, you will have a problem. (Say, a batch that renames all files in the current dir from 1 to n.) In some cases that can be dealt with by adding all needed files to the archive too. On Windows Vista and all newer OSes, you might encounter a message box after the script is run. After selecting ‘This program installed correctly’, the message box will not be displayed in the future for this file. Because the EXE file launches in a new window, the typical way of logging output (using the > char) will not work as expected. In order to log the output, you would need to handle this natively in your source script.
All references were already linked, but once again: Big credit goes to Jason Faulkner for providing the Article and 7zip-Approach, binbert for the WinRAR-SFX Solution (which is as hinted much more versatile -> portability) and some credit to creative8 for finding the two and the article comparing them.
Actually, I was develping another solution using AutoHotkey. In my case, I just want to be able to add my .bat to the windows start menu - but the options are not limited to that.
The script itself is just a oneliner and .AHK is easily converted to .exe (I used v1.1.33.09):
run % SubStr(A_ScriptName, 1, -4) ;// run also has the option to run your file minimized or hidden, see the source 2 below
Source 2
What it does is taking its own name, removing the .ahk or .exe respectively (the last 4 characters, hence -4) and running excactly that. Usage could not be easier: you have a runme.bat, so you rename the program I provide to runme.bat.exe. Say you want the .exe to open an image.png - guess what, rename it to image.png.exe. You get the gist - that's it. It dynamically checks its name to find what to run. In my opinion, this is not much less mighty than "unpacking the .bat and then run it", but (again imho) it is much more elegant.
Use it as you wish, I should probably start a public github page or so.
I am writing a batch file on my Windows 8.1 machine. In one section of my batch file I need to start a command prompt in the "current working directory".
So far, this is what my batch file looks like:
#echo OFF
set WORKING=%cwd%
start cmd.exe /K pushd %WORKING%
exit
Let's say the batch file is located in the folder C:\Temp\Utilities. If I open an explorer window and double click the batch file to run it everything works great. A new command prompt is created in the directory C:\Temp\Utilities. However, if I right-click the batch file and select Run as administrator the working directory is no longer the location of the batch file, it's C:\Windows\System32.
Similarly, if I create a shortcut to the batch file in a different folder (for example. C:\Temp) and repeat the two steps above the results are the same. If I double click the shortcut and run it as a normal user the working directory is what I would expect. (Note, the working directory for the shortcut it's whatever is set for "Start in" of the shortcut properties, not the location of the batch file.) If I right click the shortcut and run it as administrator I again get a command prompt opened to the folder C:\Windows\System32.
I assume this is a "bug" or "feature" (if you want to call it that) in Windows 8.1 and it probably happens because execution environments for programs run as administrator are forced to run in the System32 folder? (I remember with Windows 7 this did not happen so it must be a new feature to Windows 8.)
I found one way to fix the issue and stop the command prompt from starting in C:\Windows\System32. I did this by modifying the following line in the batch file:
set WORKING=%~dp0
Doing it this way sets the working directory to the location of the batch file. With this change, no matter how I run the batch file or the shortcut (administrator or normal) the working directory ends up being the same, C:\Temp\Utilities.
The problem with this solution is I don't want the working directory to always be the location of the batch file. If the batch file is run directly then it's okay but if I run it from a shortcut I need the working directory to be whatever is set in the "Start in" property of that shortcut. For example, if the batch file is located in the folder D:\Temp\Utilities this is what I need to happen regardless of whether I run as administrator or not:
Shortcut Location Start In Property Command Prompt Working Directory
-------------------- ------------------- ------------------------------------------
C:\Temp <undefined> D:\Temp\Utilities
C:\Data\bin C:\Data\bin C:\Data\bin
C:\Data\bin D:\Temp\Utilities D:\Temp\Utilities
What this means is I can't always use %~dp0 to set the working directory in my batch file. What I need is some way for the batch file to know if it was run either directly or by a shortcut. If the batch file is run directly then the working directory is easy to get, it's just the value of %cwd%. If the batch file is run by using a shortcut, I don't know how to get the "Start in" property inside the batch file.
Does anyone know how I can do these two things inside my batch file:
1. Check whether it was run directly or by a shortcut.
2. If run by a shortcut, get the "Start in" property of the shortcut that started it.
Thank you,
Orangu
UPDATE
I found sort-of a "hackish" way to fix the issue. For the shortcut I edited the "Target" field and changed it to the following:
cmd.exe /k pushd "C:\Temp" && "D:\Temp\Utilities\batchfile.bat"
Now the working directory can be obtained by calling %CD% in the batch file and this works for both administrator and normal users. It does not, however, work for the case when I run the batch file directly. I still need to use %~dp0 in that case.
I don't like this solution, however, because it requires me to manually change all shortcuts I make and it also makes the icon look like a cmd prompt icon rather than a batch file.
Have you already considered to not use shortcuts at all?
You could e.g. create a batchfile_exec.bat containing your call
REM optionally do
REM cd /D working_directory
REM if you want to force a special working directory
D:\Temp\Utilities\batchfile.bat
and replace all the shortcuts with batchfile_exec.bat. If you double-click batchfile_exec.bat, the working directory will be the one containing batchfile_exec.bat.
I personally don't like Windows shortcuts that much, because they are hard to handle within a revision control system. As you also noticed, it is very time consuming if you want to modify a lot of them.
By the way: If batchfile.bat was designed/written to be always run from the direcory where it is located, you might also consider to modify batchfile.bat to force that behaviour:
setlocal
cd /D %0\..
REM your original content
endlocal
In %0 the path to the batchfile is stored.
The trick is to assume that %0 is a directory and then to change one level lower based on that directory. With /D also the drive letter is changed correctly.
The cd command doesn't care if %0 is really a directory. In fact %d doesn't even have to exist (%0\dummy\..\.. would also work).
The setlocal command is to have the working directory being restored when batchfile.bat has finished (this would be good if batchfile.bat was called form another batch file).
I noticed that the endlocal command is not really necessary in this context since it is applied implicitly when batchfile.bat finishes.