Yes, it does, thanks. It even works from a batch file, without escape characters.

Still nothing. BTW, I believe the first param for "start" would be the console title: start "test" "%_cmdspec" /c test.bat ^> output.txt

I have a test.bat which contains just this: "echo blah". When I runtest.bat > output.txtI get output.txt containting "blah". How do I redirect the output if test.bat is launched with "start":start "test" test.bat > output.txtI get no output.txt. I tried escaping the ">" with "^" and "\", but no...

Well, "start /wait" has yet to stall on me, so I'll stick to it.

FWIW, I did some investigating: no redirected warnings, but the stalled console does seem related to external command-line tools: 7-zip, erunt (old-school registry backup), maybe others. If they're called from the batch directly, like this: 7z.exe [args]they hang 5-10% of the time (no error, no...

QuickEdit is on, but the batch starts its own console when no one's touching the machine. I'd say a stray left-click is unlikely, but I'll double check. Thanks for the tip.

Hm, that's an interesting thought: a warning that's directed away from the console, yet waiting for a reply. It can't be a major error because I'd have noticed if the batch didn't do its job. Next time I see a stall I'll check if it's a command line app and if it could be giving off a...

No manual key presses, no keystack anything. BTW, is there a guarantee that a command line app (zip, xcopy, etc) will always report to Win when it's done? Can a command line app finish without an error, but not report this to Win?

Nope, no hidden msgboxes, I checked in Nirsoft's Window Lister. If it was some command-specific msg, I'd expect it to occur on the same line in the batch file, whereas the stall can happen anywhere. I can't really debug this with breakpoints, because I can't predict where the issue will occur...

TCC console. A timing bug wouldn't necessarily bite everyone if it arises only under some obscure, rare circumstances. Anyway, it's a speculation.

Not really. It's 490 lines of complex code and the pauses happen randomly i.e. anywhere. Where it happens in the script changes with each run (otherwise debugging it would be a snap). On a "good" night the whole batch file runs just fine, on a "bad" day you get a pause somewhere. It almost looks...

Win7 x64, TC 11. Every now and then I see a strange pause in TCC batch execution. The batch file just pauses. All I need to do to get it to move on is to hit Enter in the console window. The pauses are not disk/CPU/network related: no high activity is taking place. Since hitting Enter gets the...

Thanks. I read the alias from an alias.lst file. So to prep the console, I first add one line, than move the cursor up. ping2=echo. & echos ^e[1A & ping -t jpsoft.com | for %x in (@con:) echos ^r%x^e[K

How would I implement the above as an alias? If I copy the line literally, I get the multiline ping. ping2=ping -t jpsoft.com | for %x in (@con:) echos ^r%x^e[KI tried replacing the "^" with "%=", but it's still multiline. ping2=ping -t jpsoft.com | for %x in (@con:) echos %=r%x%=e[K

Thanks, it worked like a charm. Makes things way more readable.