HOW to Redirect from batch file using START commnd

in case you want to redirect the output from batch file and you do use START command , and you want to redirect the output from the start command, here is the way

in YELLOW you can find the trick

start cmd /c myexe.exe -p1 param1 -p2 param2 ^> c:\temp\5.txt

enjoy
Yaniv Tzanany

How to start several processes from the Windows shell and wait for them all to complete?

i found this easy solution to achieve this

main.bat

start cmd /c proc1.bat
start cmd /c proc2.bat
:wait
sleep 1
IF NOT EXIST proc1done GOTO wait
IF NOT EXIST proc2done GOTO wait
del proc1done
del proc2done
echo All processes are complete

proc1.bat

proc1.exe
echo Done > proc1done



The sleep command is available in Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. If you don't have that, you could use a ping on localhost just to slow down that tight loop.

Running Batch file from network location

I develop a java tester tool for our testers , and to avoid installing java run time on their machines, i create a directory in the network and copy there the java run time with my specific jars.
to make the life easier i create a batch file to run the tester tool.
hammmm , when i tried to run the batch file i get the next error on the next command  cd .\java\bin,
“CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories“.

i solved it by the next command: "pushd %~dp0\java\bin"
the %~dp0  is to Get the Directory Path of an executing Batch file
dont forget in the end use POPD command .

i have put all the stuff on the network e.g. \\server1\tester\
so finally my batch file looks like this :
@ECHO OFF
pushd %~dp0\java\bin
java -DPARAM1=../../param.config -jar ../../param.jar %1
popd
pause

enjoy
Yaniv T