What does this do?

[badders]

Not sure if posting in the right spot for this but ant help would be welcomed.

Came across this as a batch file but don't know what it does, anybody have any ideas?

 

@ECHO OFF

BREAK OFF

Title My Own cmd

color 0a %CMD%

cls echo

goto cmd

:cmd

set /P cmd=command:

[MK-2]

i would guess it creates a command (dos) prompt with your own title (my own cmd) and sets a colour for it.

 

but then its been years since i looked at batch files properly

[bishopsgarthstockton]

not alot

[Jake]

Running it twice in a row, it appears to be a little batch file for "setting the default console foreground and background colours"

[Geoff]

Someone's trying to be clever, but failed.

 

It sets the window title to 'My Own cmd'

It sets the text foreground colour to a horrid green.

Clears the screen

prompts the user with 'command:' and waits for them to enter something, then sets the %cmd% variable to the input value.

Then exits, achieving nothing.

 

Here's a fixed script:

 

@ECHO OFF
BREAK OFF
Title My Own cmd
color 0a 
cls
:cmd
set /P cmd=command:
if %cmd%==Q exit
if %cmd%==q exit
start %cmd%
goto cmd

 

I've tidied up the coding errors and added a loop so you can invoke multiple programs or quit (input Q).

[apeo]

Someone's trying to be clever, but failed.

[mattx]

Are you going to charge £8 for that script Geoff ?

[ See - http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9336&highlight=netsh ]

[badders]

Thanks. Got to work out how to stop the kids from doing this now!

[Geoff]

Use a file restriction policy.