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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





CALL  Calls a batch file from another batch file. CALL [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters]

batch-parameters  Specifies any command-line information required by the batch program.

If Command Extensions are enabled CALL changes as follows:

CALL command now accepts labels as the target of the CALL. The syntax is:

CALL :label arguments

A new batch file context is created with the specified arguments and control is passed to the statement after the label specified. You must "exit" twice by reaching the end of the batch script file twice. The first time you read the end, control will return to just after the CALL statement. The second time will exit the batch script. Type GOTO /? for a description of the GOTO :EOF extension that will allow you to "return" from a batch script.

In addition, expansion of batch script argument references (%0, %1, etc.) have been changed as follows:

%* in a batch script refers to all the arguments (e.g. %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 ...)

Substitution of batch parameters (%n) has been enhanced. You can now use the following optional syntax:

%~1  -  expands %1 removing any surrounding quotes (")
%~f1  -  expands %1 to a fully qualified path name
%~d1  -  expands %1 to a drive letter only
%~p1  -  expands %1 to a path only
%~n1  -  expands %1 to a file name only
%~x1  -  expands %1 to a file extension only
%~s1  -  expanded path contains short names only
%~a1  -  expands %1 to file attributes
%~t1  -  expands %1 to date/time of file
%~z1  -  expands %1 to size of file
%~$PATH:1  -  searches the directories listed in the PATH
environment variable and expands %1 to the fully
qualified name of the first one found. If the
environment variable name is not defined or the
file is not found by the search, then this
modifier expands to the empty string

The modifiers can be combined to get compound results:

%~dp1  -  expands %1 to a drive letter and path only
%~nx1  -  expands %1 to a file name and extension only
%~dp$PATH:1  -  searches the directories listed in the PATH
environment variable for %1 and expands to the
drive letter and path of the first one found.
 
%~ftza1   -  expands %1 to a DIR like output line

In the above examples %1 and PATH can be replaced by other valid values. The %~ syntax is terminated by a valid argument number. The %~ modifiers may not be used with %*
 

EXAMPLES

call second.bat - Executes the second.bat batch file from another batch file.

APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





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