DOSCMD -- Execute an MS-DOS command

DOSCMD Execute an internal MS-DOS command

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Syntax:	DOSCMD	[ cmd ]
Arguments:	[ cmd ]	Variable or string defining an MS-DOS command such as dir, copy, mkdir, etc. to be executed.
Options:	None

This script command executes a specified MS-DOS internal command. FileLink is suspended until the execution of the command is complete.

Consider the following example that lists the contents of the current folder to a file.

DOSCMD "dir *.* > tempfile"

Consider the following example where a new folder is created and the contents of the current folder is copied there.

DOSCMD "mkdir \newfolder"

DOSCMD "copy *.* \newfolder"

Upon return, any exit code from the process launched with DOSCMD is saved in the %lasterror script variable and can be tested with any of the IFERRORcommands. For example:

DOSCMD "fc file1.txt file2.txt"

;; ‘fc’ returns 2 if it cannot compare the specified files

IFERROR= 2 GOTO fc_error

Related Command(s): CALL, CHAIN , EXEC