I need my bat file to accept multiple optional named arguments.
mycmd.bat man1 man2 -username alice -otheroption
For example my command has 2 mandatory parameters, and two optional parameters (-username) that has an argument value of alice, and -otheroption:
I'd like to be able to pluck these values into variables.
Just putting out a call to anyone that has already solved this. Man these bat files are a pain.
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Though I tend to agree with @AlekDavis' comment, there are nonetheless several ways to do this in the NT shell.
The approach I would take advantage of the SHIFT command and IF conditional branching, something like this...
@ECHO OFF
SET man1=%1
SET man2=%2
SHIFT & SHIFT
:loop
IF NOT "%1"=="" (
IF "%1"=="-username" (
SET user=%2
SHIFT
)
IF "%1"=="-otheroption" (
SET other=%2
SHIFT
)
SHIFT
GOTO :loop
)
ECHO Man1 = %man1%
ECHO Man2 = %man2%
ECHO Username = %user%
ECHO Other option = %other%
REM ...do stuff here...
:theend