The ‘>’ operator is used to redirect the output to a new file, the ‘>>’ is used to redirect the output and append to the file. Now both the STDOUT and STDERR are written to the console by default. Output from a console (Command Prompt) application or command is often sent to two separate streams. […]
Read More →Sometimes a simple task of deleting a file or folder will turn into a challenge when working on Windows. It might give you error messages like these: Destination Path Too Long. The file name(s) would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten file name and try again, or try a location […]
Read More →Consider a situation where you had to execute a job depending on whether another/same program is running. To solve this problem, we take the help of tasklist,find commands. Here is the code which gives us that information, save it as a batch file and tweak it to your needs: In this example, we are checking […]
Read More →Every computer user has a set of programs that they invariably use pretty much everyday. For a software developer such programs are many and often need to be present at their beck and call. Adding to this use case, usually the programs are heavy, often needing few minutes to get going once they are invoked. […]
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