brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) (10/11/90)
I have been trying, without success, to pass a batch file command line argument to a program that is invoked from inside the batch file. The batch file has something like: ..... programname "%1" ..... and is invoked as: batchfilename param but programname never gets param. Would someone advise me how to do this correctly? Cheers, -Graham
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (10/11/90)
In article <39104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU writes: >I have been trying, without success, to pass a batch file command >line argument to a program that is invoked from inside the batch >file. The batch file has something like: > ..... > programname "%1" ^ simple, don't use the quotes ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
msmith%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Matthew Smith) (10/12/90)
In article <39104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU writes: >I have been trying, without success, to pass a batch file command >line argument to a program that is invoked from inside the batch >file. The batch file has something like: > ..... > programname "%1" > ..... >and is invoked as: > batchfilename param > >but programname never gets param. Would someone advise me how to do >this correctly? Well, I'm not sure if you put those ""'s around the %1 in your batch file or not, if you did, you shouldn't. If I called a batch file called BATCH with the parameters A B C D, like such: BATCH A B C D then, inside the batch file, any reference made to %1 would be replaced by A, %2 by B, etc... So, if in the batch file, I wanted to call MYPROG with the first parameter passed to BATCH, my batch file would look like this: MYPROG %1 I think you had the right idea, depending on if you put those quotes there or not... >Cheers, >-Graham (*SWIG*) (*ahhh*) thanks! Matt Smith msmith@peruvian.utah.edu
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (10/12/90)
brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes: > I have been trying, without success, to pass a batch file command > line argument to a program that is invoked from inside the batch > file. The batch file has something like: > ..... > programname "%1" > ..... > and is invoked as: > batchfilename param > > but programname never gets param. Would someone advise me how to do > this correctly? The quotes are the problem. If you use simply progname %1 and invoke as batfile param progname will get param passed as you wish. For even more control in batch files, look into 4dos. The batch support is phenominal! -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me