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approach and can't find anything really useful. Basically if any thing goes wrong I want to stop and print out what went wrong. Can anyone give me any pointers? batch-file share|improve this question edited Apr 29 '14 at 11:28 John Saunders 138k20175321 asked Jul 22 '09 at 9:15 bplus 2,87494574 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 34 down vote I generally find the conditional command concatenation operators much more convenient than ERRORLEVEL. yourCommand && ( echo dos error 5 yourCommand was successful ) || ( echo yourCommand failed ) There is one complication you should be aware of. The error branch will fire if the last command in the success branch raises an error. yourCommand && ( someCommandThatMayFail ) || ( echo This will fire if yourCommand or someCommandThatMayFail raises an error ) The fix is to insert a harmless command that is guaranteed to succeed at the end of the success branch. I like to use (call ), which does nothing except set the ERRORLEVEL to 0. There is a corollary (call) that does nothing except set the ERRORLEVEL to 1. yourCommand && ( someCommandThatMayFail (call ) ) || ( echo This can only fire if yourCommand raises an error ) See Foolproof way to check for nonzero (error) return code in windows batch file for examples of the intricacies needed when using ERRORLEVEL to detect errors. share|improve this answer edited Apr 29 '14 at 11:24 answered Jun 13 '13 at 11:27 dbenham 77.9k11114179 Would u mind to provide a simple example with copy or del commands, pls? –Dimi Dec 17 '13 at 14:00 Much nicer than keeping track of ERRORLEVEL, thanks! –kaveman Oct 24 '14 at 18:20 add a comment| up vote 6 down vote Other than ERRORLEVEL, batch files have no error handling. You'd want to look at a more powerful scripting language. I've been moving code to PowerShell. The ability
stdin, stdout, stderr Part 5 – If/Then Conditionals Part 6 – Loops Part 7 – Functions Part 8 – Parsing Input Part 9 – Logging Part 10 – Advanced dos error 64 Tricks Today we’ll cover return codes as the right way to communicate the outcome
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of your script’s execution to the world. Sadly, even skilled Windows programmers overlook the importance of return codes. Return Code Conventions
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By convention, command line execution should return zero when execution succeeds and non-zero when execution fails. Warning messages typically don’t effect the return code. What matters is did the script work or not? Checking http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164049/batch-files-error-handling Return Codes In Your Script Commands The environmental variable %ERRORLEVEL% contains the return code of the last executed program or script. A very helpful feature is the built-in DOS commands like ECHO, IF, and SET will preserve the existing value of %ERRORLEVEL%. The conventional technique to check for a non-zero return code using the NEQ (Not-Equal-To) operator of the IF command: IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ( REM do something here http://steve-jansen.github.io/guides/windows-batch-scripting/part-3-return-codes.html to address the error ) Another common technique is: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( REM do something here to address the error ) The ERRORLEVEL 1 statement is true when the return code is any number equal to or greater than 1. However, I don’t use this technique because programs can return negative numbers as well as positive numbers. Most programs rarely document every possible return code, so I’d rather explicity check for non-zero with the NEQ 0 style than assuming return codes will be 1 or greater on error. You may also want to check for specific error codes. For example, you can test that an executable program or script is in your PATH by simply calling the program and checking for return code 9009. SomeFile.exe IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 9009 ( ECHO error - SomeFile.exe not found in your PATH ) It’s hard to know this stuff upfront – I generally just use trial and error to figure out the best way to check the return code of the program or script I’m calling. Remember, this is duct tape programming. It isn’t always pretty, but, it gets the job done. Conditional Execution Using the Return Code There’s a super cool shorthand you can use to exec
Chen - MSFTSeptember 26, 200815 0 0 0 The command interpreter cmd.exe has a concept known as the error level, which is the exit code of the program most recently run. You can test the error level with the IF ERRORLEVEL command: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO error level https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080926-00/?p=20743 is 1 or more
be prefixed to any DOS command, program name, or batch file name within a batch file. @[command] examples @ {Seperates sections of the batch file without diplaying the DOS prompt.} @echo OFF {Hides the echo off report.} %DIGIT Replaceable batch parameters which are defined by the user when the batch is executed. The parameters are separated by spaces, commas, or semicolons. %digit {Digit: any digit from 0 to 9. %0 has the value of the batch command as it appears on the command line when the batch is executed. %1 represents the first string typed after the batch commmand. Each occurrence of %digit is replaced by the corresponding string from the batch command line.} examples MYBATCH DOC A:COPY *.%1 %2 {Copies all .DOC files in the default directory to drive A:} %VARIABLE% Replaces the DOS environment variable name with its environment value. %variable% {Variable: a string of uppercase characers in the environment associated with a string value. Variable is created in the environment by using SET.} examples %PATH% {Returns the value of PATH, the current search path, which is executable.} echo %PATH% {Displays the value of PATH, the current search path.} %PROMPT% {Returns the value of PROMPT, the current prompt string, which is executable.} echo %PROMPT% {Displays the value of PROMPT, the current prompt string.} echo The current search path is: %PATH% {Displays the message including the current search path.} set USER=Johnif %USER%= =John goto LABEL {Since the value of USER does equal "John", the control is transferred to the label, LABEL.} CALL Loads and executes a batch file from within a batch file as if it were a external command. When a second batch file completes, control is returned to the calling file. call [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters]Before DOS version 3.3:command /c [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters] CLS Clears the video display screen, setting the cursor in the upper left-hand corner. cls ECHO Controls whether commands and comments within a batch file are displayed. echo [ON|OFF|message|.] examples echo {Displays echo