Batch file to run a command in cmd within a directory

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I want to have a batch file must be placed on desktop  which does the following    opens cmd navigates to a directory  e g  C  activiti-5 9 setup runs a command within the directory  e g  ant demo start  this command runs the activiti server    I tried the following to reach to the directory but how to run command   ant demo start    START cmd exe  k  cd C  activiti-5 9 setup    Thank you for the help   EDIT   Referring to zb226 s answer below  One more question if you can answer me is how to make that cmd to be run as administrator  will the following work    START cmd  K  runas  user administrator  amp  cd C  activiti-5 9 setup  amp  ant demo start

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You Can Also Check It      cmd  c cd  d C  activiti-5 9 setup  amp  ant demo start

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Chain arbitrary commands using  amp  like this   command1  amp  command2  amp  command3  amp        Thus  in your particular case  put this line in a batch file on your desktop   START cmd exe  k  cd C  activiti-5 9 setup  amp  ant demo start    You can also use  amp  amp  to chain commands  albeit this will perform error checking and the execution chain will break if one of the commands fails  The behaviour is detailed here   Edit  Intrigued by  James K s comment  You CAN chain the commands  but they will have no effect   I tested some more and to my surprise discovered  that the program I was starting in my original test - firefox exe - while not existing in a directory in the PATH environment variable  is actually executable anywhere on my system  which really made me wonder - see bottom of answer for explanation   So in fact executing     START cmd exe  k  cd C  progra 1 mozill 1  amp  amp  firefox       didn t prove the solution was working  So I chose another program  nLite  after making sure that it was not executable anywhere on my system   START cmd exe  k  cd C  progra 1 nlite  amp  amp  nlite    And that works just as my original answer already suggested  A Windows version is not given in the question  but I m using Windows XP  btw     If anybody is interested why firefox exe  while not being in PATH  is executable anywhere on my system - and very probably on yours as well - this is due to a registry key where applications can be registered to be available everywhere  See this SU answer for details

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CMD EXE will not execute internal commands contained inside the string  Only actual files can be launched with that string   You will need to actually call a batch file to do what you want   BAT1 bat  start cmd exe  k bat2 bat   BAT2 bat  cd C  activiti-5 9 setup ant demo start   You may want to create a folder called BAT  and add it s location to your path  So if you create C  BAT  add C  BAT   to the path   The path is located at       click - gt  Start - gt  right-click Computer - gt  Properties - gt      click - gt  Avanced System Settings - gt  Environment Variables    select - gt  Path  From either list  User Variables are specific to                     your profile  System Variables are  duh  system-wide       Click - gt  Edit Press the - gt  the  END  or  HOME  key       Type - gt  C  BAT       Click - gt  OK - gt  OK   Now place all your batch files in C  BAT and they will be found  regardless of the current directory

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This question is 5 years old  I wonder why still nobody has found the  d  switch to set the working folder   start  d  c  activiti-5 9 setup  cmd  k ant demo start

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Mine DID execute commands in order  Here s my version of what I was using it for   START cmd exe  k  U   amp  cd U  Design stuff new lcso website 2017  amp  python -m http server   I needed to    Change to my U drive CD to a specific folder containing a website I m redesigning Execute python with the http server module  to display the contents in my browser     If those commands are out of order  it would not display the correct files   I initially forgot to change to U  and  running the batch file on my Desktop  it created a web page in my browser at http   localhost 8000 showing me the contents of my Desktop instead of the folder I wanted

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For me  the following is working and running activiti server as well as opening the explorer in browser  with the help of zb226 s answer and comment    START  runas  user administrator  cmd  K  cd C  activiti-5 9 setup  amp  ant demo start   START  wait localhost 8080 activiti-explorer

[batch-file] Batch file to run a command in cmd within a directory

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