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Setting the Title of the "DOS" Command Prompt from a Batch File

November 22, '04 Comments [4] Posted in Musings
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Just a small reminder for myself and others that you can set the title of the Command Prompt Window with the "TITLE" Batch Command.

Since I'm building three different branches of our SDK during dev, it's nice to differentiate all these windows on all these monitors.

For example here's "mybuild.bat"

TITLE Building VoyagerFramework 2.0
set BUILDDIR=C:\dev\VoyagerFramework\build
call BUILD.BAT %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

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Comments [4]
Monday, November 22, 2004 8:41:47 PM UTC
Sometimes it's the littlest things...

Thanks for the tip. Man, you learn something new darn every day...
Greg
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:22:48 AM UTC
I'm using 4NT as my command line processor, and I've set my prompt to "%@exec[@title %_CWDS][$r] $P$G". This way, the title of the console window displays always the current directory. It's very helpful if you have many console windows in your task bar.
Thomas Freudenberg
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 6:18:29 AM UTC
excellent tip!
Jeff Atwood
Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:30:37 AM UTC
...and afterwards you can set the color of the window according to the errorlevel to green/red, e.g. with color c0

:)
dominick
dominick
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