How do I run two commands in one line in Windows CMD

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I want to run two commands in a Windows CMD console   In Linux I would do it like this  touch thisfile   ls -lstrh   How is it done on Windows

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Like this on all Microsoft OSes since 2000, and still good today:

dir & echo foo

If you want the second command to execute only if the first exited successfully:

dir && echo foo

The single ampersand (&) syntax to execute multiple commands on one line goes back to Windows XP, Windows 2000, and some earlier NT versions. (4.0 at least, according to one commenter here.)

There are quite a few other points about this that you'll find scrolling down this page.

Historical data follows, for those who may find it educational.

Prior to that, the && syntax was only a feature of the shell replacement 4DOS before that feature was added to the Microsoft command interpreter.

In Windows 95, 98 and ME, you'd use the pipe character instead:

dir | echo foo

In MS-DOS 5.0 and later, through some earlier Windows and NT versions of the command interpreter, the (undocumented) command separator was character 20 (Ctrl+T) which I'll represent with ^T here.

dir ^T echo foo

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You can use  amp  to run commands one after another  Example  c  dir  amp  vim myFile txt

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Yes there is  It s  amp     amp  amp  will execute command 2 when command 1 is complete providing it didn t fail    amp  will execute regardless

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I try to have two pings in the same window  and it is a serial command on the same line  After finishing the first  run the second command   The solution was to combine with start  b on a Windows 7 command prompt   Start as usual  without  b  and launch in a separate window   The command used to launch in the same line is   start  b command1 parameters  amp  command2 parameters   Any way  if you wish to parse the output  I don t recommend to use this  I noticed the output is scrambled between the output of the commands

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With windows 10 you can also use scriptrunner  ScriptRunner exe -appvscript demoA cmd arg1 arg2 -appvscriptrunnerparameters -wait -timeout 30 -rollbackonerror -appvscript demoB ps1 arg3 arg4 -appvscriptrunnerparameters -wait -timeout 30 -rollbackonerror  it allows you to start few commands on one line you want you can run them consecutive or without waiting each other  you can put timeouts and rollback on error

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A quote from the documentation    Source  Microsoft  Windows XP Professional Product Documentation  Command shell overview Also  An A-Z Index of Windows CMD commands      Using multiple commands and conditional processing symbols      You can run multiple commands from a single command line or script using conditional processing symbols  When you run multiple commands with conditional processing symbols  the commands to the right of the conditional processing symbol act based upon the results of the command to the left of the conditional processing symbol        For example  you might want to run a command only if the previous command fails  Or  you might want to run a command only if the previous command is successful       You can use the special characters listed in the following table to pass multiple commands           amp          command1  amp  command2   Use to separate multiple commands on one command line  Cmd exe runs the first command  and then the second command     amp  amp          command1  amp  amp  command2   Use to run the command following  amp  amp  only if the command preceding the symbol is successful  Cmd exe runs the first command  and then runs the second command only if the first command completed successfully                command1    command2   Use to run the command following    only if the command preceding    fails  Cmd exe runs the first command  and then runs the second command only if the first command did not complete successfully  receives an error code greater than zero                  command1  amp  command2    Use to group or nest multiple commands      or     command1 parameter1 parameter2   Use to separate command parameters

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Try to create a  bat ot  cmd file with those lines using doskey key and  T which is equivalent to  amp  to do several command line in just one line   touch echo off  T echo    gt      T dir  B  T echo on  It ll create an empty file  Example  touch myfile  In cmd you ll get something like this   But as mentioned previously by others  it is really advised to use  amp  operator to do many command line in one line from CMD prompt  Enjoy

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One more example  For example  when we use the gulp build system  instead of  gulp        - default   build  gulp build  - build build-folder  gulp watch  - start file-watch  gulp dist   - build dist-folder  We can do that with one line   cd c  xampp htdocs project  amp  gulp  amp  gulp watch

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Just add  amp  amp  between them Like    Cls  amp  amp  echo  hello   amp  amp  dir c

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Use  amp  symbol in windows to use command in one line  C  Users Arshdeep Singh gt cd Desktop PROJECTS PYTHON programiz  amp  jupyter notebook   like in linux we use   touch thisfile   ls -lstrh

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When you try to use or manipulate variables in one line beware of their content  E g  a variable like the following   PATH C  Program Files  x86  somewhere  C  Company Cool Tool   USERPROFILE  AppData Local Microsoft WindowsApps     may lead to a lot of unhand-able trouble if you use it as  PATH    The closing parentheses terminate your group statement The double quotes don t allow you to use  PATH  to handle the parentheses problem And what will a referenced variable like  USERPROFILE  contain

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In order to execute two commands at the same time  you must put an  amp   ampersand  symbol between the two commands  Like so   color 0a  amp  start chrome exe   Cheers

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Well  you have two options  Piping  or just  amp    DIR  S  amp  START FILE TXT   Or   tasklist   find  notepad exe    Piping     is more for taking the output of one command  and putting it into another  And   amp   is just saying run this  and that

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You can use call to overcome the problem of environment variables being evaluated too soon - e g   set A Hello  amp  call echo  A

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It s simple  just differentiate them with  amp  amp  signs   Example    echo  Hello World   amp  amp  echo  GoodBye World      Goodbye World  will be printed after  Hello World

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If you want to create a cmd shortcut  for example on your desktop  add  k parameter   k means keep   c will close window    cmd  k echo hello  amp  amp  cd c    amp  amp  cd Windows

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No  cd    amp  amp  tree  amp  amp  echo  time   The time echoed is at when the first command is executed   The piping has some issue  but it is not critical as long as people know how it works

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So  I was trying to enable the specific task of running RegAsm  register assembly  from a context menu   The issue I had was that the result would flash up and go away before I could read it   So I tried piping to Pause  which does not work when the command fails  as mentioned here Pause command not working in  bat script and here Batch file command PAUSE does not work    So I tried cmd  k but that leaves the window open for more commands  I just want to read the result    So I added a pause followed by exit to the chain  resulting in the following   cmd  k C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 regasm exe   1   codebase    1    amp  pause  amp  exit  This works like a charm -- RegAsm runs on the file and shows its results  then a  Press any key to continue     prompt is shown  then the command prompt window closes when a key is pressed   P S   For others who might be interested  you can use the following  reg file entries to add a dllfile association to  dll files and then a RegAsm command extension to that  notice the escaped quotes and backslashes     HKEY CLASSES ROOT  dll   Content Type   application x-msdownload     dllfile    HKEY CLASSES ROOT dllfile     Application Extension    HKEY CLASSES ROOT dllfile Shell RegAsm     Register Assembly    HKEY CLASSES ROOT dllfile Shell RegAsm command     cmd  k C   Windows  Microsoft NET  Framework  v4 0 30319  regasm exe    1    codebase    1    amp  pause  amp  exit    Now I have a nice right-click menu to register an assembly

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cmd  c ipconfig  all  amp  Output txt  This command execute command and open Output txt file in a single command

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A number of processing symbols can be used when running several commands on the same line  and may lead to processing redirection in some cases  altering output in other case  or just fail  One important case is placing on the same line commands that manipulate variables    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set count 0 set  count 1   amp  echo  count   count   0 1   As you see in the above example  when commands using variables are placed on the same line  you must use delayed expansion to update your variable values  If your variable is indexed  use CALL command with    modifiers to update its value on the same line   set  i 5   amp  set  arg i  MyFile i    amp  call echo path i   temp    arg i     path5 C  Users UserName AppData Local Temp MyFile5

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amp  is the Bash equivalent for     run commands  and  amp  amp  is the Bash equivalent of  amp  amp   run commands only when the previous has not caused an error

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