Questions tagged [windows-console]
Windows character mode applications using the functions provided by the console I/O functions. This tag should be used by questions about the console functions, structures and winevents, which support character mode applications.
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Go Unicode combining characters (grapheme clusters) and MS Windows Console cmd.exe
In the following code, the ü is not the single Unicode character U+00FC but is a single grapheme cluster composed of two Unicode characters, the plain ASCII u U+0075 followed by the combining ...
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How to fix UTF-8 issues with command execution
When I execute a command using backticks and print that output with puts it displays question marks instead of the right characters.
This is my code (just a test to make it easier for you to read):
# ...
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Combination of If and copy fails with syntax incorrect
I'm trying to create a .bat file that uses a Parameter to define which copy it should do.
I tried the if without copy (an echo instead) which worked fine, and I tried the copy command which also ...
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Colored text output in PowerShell console using ANSI / VT100 codes
I wrote a program which prints a string, which contains ANSI escape sequences to make the text colored. But it doesn't work as expected in the default Windows 10 console, as you can see in the ...
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Why can't I redirect output from WriteConsole?
In the following program I print to the console using two different functions
#include <windows.h>
int main() {
HANDLE h = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
DWORD byteswritten;
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How to IF check and do multiple things else in CMD
===== CMD BATCH FILE=====
I am trying to check a variable=="string" then echo message and run program else it must quit exit 1 if anything else or even empty.
I have tried so much already and used ...
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Command to copy current time and date to clipboard in Windows 7
In Windows 7 command prompt, I needed a command to copy current date and time to the clipboard. I used
time /t & date /t | clip
but it only copies the date and not the time. What should I do?
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Issue in opening new process window while Executing command in Cmd.Exe using C# Console App
I have a below code to execute series of commands in cmd.exe using .Net console.
I have requirement to open new cmd window each time the command executes, so that it can be visualized.
But below code ...
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How to print sentence in the position of the mouse cursor in VC++ Win32 application?
I want to print something in the position where the mouse cursor is, so I use POINT cursorPos; GetCursorPos(&cursorPos);
to get the position of mouse cursor.
Then I set the console cursor to the ...
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Spawn child console/cmd.exe inside existing console/cmd.exe without a new window
I would like to spawn a console with different env variables (e.g. PATH or PROMPT) inside an already running console. I would also like to be able to "exit-back" to the original console via "exit" (...
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Displaying Unicode in Powershell
What I'm trying to achieve is rather straightforward though Powershell is making it almost impossible.
I want to display the full path of files, some with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian ...
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How to write ^C in the Windows console?
How to write ^C at in the Windows console? For example, I need to enter ^C in this window. If you press Ctrl+C in the console, the application exits and the console closes.
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Built in commands fail when used in for loop
I have a portion of a script that is intended to remove the ":" out of the time and "/" out of the date as returned by time /t and date /t commands. If I execute the command in a command prompt (cmd....
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How to exit C++ console using the exit button instead of using FreeConsole()?
Currently in my C++ application, I am using a Windows Console to print diagnostics messages. As of now, this window opens as if it were a toggle; when the toggle button is clicked:
If the console ...
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Error on the cdm after running my python instabot
this is what I receive when I run the code (click here)
As I am starting to get into python I have written this code to create an instabot, when I run it on the windows console, it seems like it is ...
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Console App Terminating Before async Call Completion
I'm currently writing a C# console app that generates a number of URLs that point to different images on a web site and then downloads as byte streams using WebClient.DownloadDataAsync().
My issue is ...
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Detecting -mconsole and -mwindows in compilation
Probably this is an easy or stupid question, but I cannot find the answer:
Is it possible to check at compile time, if GCC on Windows is called with the -mwindows or the -mconsole option? I would like ...
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How do I send Ascii code to a printer port 9100 and get a reply
I have an industrial printer which is connected to a network and receives a trigger to print from another machine.
To see when that triggers happens I will need some status information from the ...
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How to hide cmd.exe and cscript command prompts?
I have a test.cmd file on my desktop. In it contains the following line:
cmd.exe /c "cscript foo.js"
Is it possible to completely silence/quiet/supress/hide any and all console windows from popping ...
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Why ANSI Code-Page and Console Code-Page are different?
Microsoft Windows provides several functions to query current code-page:
GetACP, GetConsoleOutputCP, GetConsoleCP.
They return different values. For example, on my machine, GetACP returns 1252 ...
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installed program “cppcheck” but command “where cppcheck” (on windows command line) can't find anything
I downloaded and installed the program "cppcheck" (http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/).
This program has both a GUI (which I can access without problems) and a command line interface.
However, when I ...
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Getting terminal size in c for windows?
How to check ymax and xmax in a console window, under Windows, using plain c?
There is this piece of code for linux:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
int main (void)
{
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Python stops working on Windows and console freezes
Firstly, I'm a pen tester, so I use Python & Perl all the time. I programmed a Python script for mass test exploiting of Wordpress to test all websites on a server. The script works perfectly on ...
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Jumbled output in CMD.EXE with a manually allocated console
I am getting frustrated. I have a Windows GUI application that manually opens a console. Calling AllocConsole and redirecting stdin, stdout, and stderr all work flawlessly. I can type any input and ...
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embed cmd in win32 application and text not selectable
I write both gui and console program. For console I use color output like \33[0m. For gui I need to write more code, if I switch to another gui library I need to rewrite the code. Some simple library(...
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Can't find App.config file for Windows Console app
I have a Windows console app that has an App.config file. The console app is to be executed from a SQL Agent job. In app.config I store a database connection.
<connectionStrings>
<add ...
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Logical operators (“and”, “or”) in DOS batch
How would you implement logical operators in DOS Batch files?
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Using STDIN with an AllocConsole()
I have a third-party dll that I load into software that isn't mine, and I'm using AllocConsole() to create the standard windows CLI window so I have an easy means of outputting debug messages.
My ...
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SQL Server Management Studio - External Tools - Is it possible to have access current database or connection?
I need to develop a small C# console application which needs to have access to currently opened database connection in SQL Server Management Studio. I am thinking to add this tool in External Tools ...
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Output unicode strings in Windows console app
Hi I was trying to output unicode string to a console with iostreams and failed.
I found this: Using unicode font in c++ console app and this snippet works.
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
wchar_t s[]...
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How to use unicode characters in Windows command line?
We have a project in Team Foundation Server (TFS) that has a non-English character (š) in it. When trying to script a few build-related things we've stumbled upon a problem - we can't pass the š ...
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Python 2 encoding in win 7 console
This question is related to Getting file path with umlauts from command line arguments under win7 using a batch file but has another twist. I installed win_unicode_console. I opened a console window ...
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Console window - programmatic command code (wParam of WM_COMMAND)
I find it very interesting when I can control a console window with my C#/C++ program.
According to this post: Programmatically Paste Clipboard Text to a CMD Window (C# or C++), we can execute paste ...
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Assign output of a program to a variable
I need to assign the output of a program to a variable using a MS batch file.
So in GNU Bash shell I would use VAR=$(application arg0 arg1). I need a similar behavior in Windows using a batch file.
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Hide phantomjs console
I am doing a project and I want him to be invisible. Therefore, i used this website - http://pytoexe.com/ to create an window based exe file from my python script which means it will not use the ...
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After converting my python script to windows based exe, phantomjs open a console window
I am doing a program and i want that it will be invisible to the user. Therefore, i converted my python script to window based exe file with this website - "http://pytoexe.com/" and now the script run ...
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Can you enter binary data in Windows command line?
Let's say that I am running a console application that takes input from the user.
Is there a way to send binary data to the program, for example can I send the following three bytes to the program:
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Which font is used in MS-DOS?
Does anyone know which is the font that the Windows console/MS-DOS uses?
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Call RtlIsNameInExpression from .Net code
Because of a lot of intricacies in filename patternmatching in Windows (and former DOS) I'd like to call RtlIsNameInExpression from my .Net code to make sure my (console) application will behave ...
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Hide console window by an .exe file executed by a .py script
I am trying to hide a console window that pops up from an EXE file. I am running this EXE from my own EXE (a Python script frozen via PyInstaller).
I found out that, whenever I run the script via ...
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Python: pip: how to change color of pip errormessages?
Using pip in a console window under windows 7 I can barely see the text of the errormessages.
Is there any chance to tell pip to use another color? This dark red on top of black is a bad choice.
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Windows cmd which removes every bin and obj folders
I'm trying to write a windows script that will remove every bin and obj folder in my project folder. It just doesn't work..
I found this:
for /d /r . %d in (_svn) do @if exist "%d" rd /s/q "%d"
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Windows console encoding
What is the default console encoding on Windows? It seems like sometimes it is the ANSI encoding (CP-1252), sometimes it is the OEM encoding (CP-850 for Western Europe by default) given by the chcp ...
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Keep .NET console application alive until the termination sequence finishes
I am working on a data acquisition application and I want to ensure that it exits gracefully. That is, it processes all the already collected data, flushes all the (file) buffers to "disk" (persistent ...
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Change text already displayed on the console
I have a question about changing text already displayed on the command line window. If I run the command timeout 10, the text already displayed on screen would keep on changing. How does this work?
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How to use the new support for ANSI escape sequences in the Windows 10 console?
The latest Windows 10 updates include support for ANSI escape sequences in conhost.exe.
I have been able to confirm that the escape sequences are properly picked up in cmd.exe, so I have the ...
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Ruby's output in the Windows console VS mingw64 VS cygwin64
I'm having a really weird problem here. Here's simple code that uses puts:
puts "Dale"
sleep 1
puts "Cooper"
I have 3 different terminals/consoles:
Windows console (system default)
mingw64 (UNIX-...
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Can you differentiate between raw numbers versus quoted numbers for command-line arguments without escaping the quotes in C#?
For a C# console app, if I provide the following, my parameters will be interpreted as the same value:
myapp.exe "0" 0
And just be 0 with a length of 1 when inspected.
I was wondering if there's a ...
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C# Nancy.Hosting.Self doesn't answer to requests from network, only to localhost request
I am trying to integrate nancy self hosting into my wpf project and when I start my program, I am able to connect to rest api from local browser, but cannot connect from another computer.
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How to read console input either space separated or newline separated in C#?
The input provided in my test is sometimes separated by and sometimes by \n.
I want to store these inputs in an Array at the end.
Sample Input:
1 2 3 4 5 (space separated)
1\n2\n3\n4\n5 (newline ...
