TITLE command in batch file (WinXP/)

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I just finished reading the 1998 “NT Server 4” Exam prep book. On page 608 it includes in a table of commands TITLE: “Modifies the title in the title bar of the command window”.

Neat.
Each batch file can start with
Title %0
and be much more informative.

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Wish I’d found out about this one while still making heavy use of batch files. Still, it may help with those few that I still deploy now & then.

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Hmmmm, sorta like what I still call my “DOS Prompt” shortcut on my desktop in both XP and Vista.

cmd.exe /s /k title Big Al’s Command Window which results in the attached.

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Isn’t that some sort of copyright breach?

Alan

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he might just get away with it if we don’t tell anyone!
(What happens in the Lounge, stays in the Lounge.)

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Do you expect Bill Gates to butt in with “All your command windows are belong to us”?
He’s retired now, you know…

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Glad you liked it, Tim.
Now, the Homework Assignment:
Write a short batch file (DOS, not script) to place a single line “Title %0” ahead of all other lines in each batch file in a folder without changing the date/time stamp.
Heh heh!

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If it precedes all lines in the BATch file, it should really start with an @, as in

@title %~n0

(do you really want a BATch file to do what you say? If so you will need something like the Resource Kit utility TOUCH, to set the timestamp back…

BATcher

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> ~n
Hide the path, right?
Nice!
Where (from) did you dig (up) that?

>do you really want a BATch file to do what you say?
Ultimately, yes, but it’s the sort of task I like to set myself when I’m waiting for someone/thing and I’ve finished reading my book.
I have a copy of TOUCH, thanks, from 10/27/88, unless someone has changed the file date (grin!). Also my trusty copy of PCMagazine’s “DOS Power tools”.

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