Why does TCC tell me TakeCommand is not loaded?

[Phileosophos]

Consider the following contents of my ForEachSubfolder.bat batch file:

@echo off
pushd
for /d %%d in (.) do (
echo Changing to: %%d
cd "%%d"
rem echo %cd%
%*
cd ..
)
popd

I use that to execute a given command in every subfolder of a given root folder. It's a handy way, for example, to do a git pull for every source project underneath a common root. For sake of context, I'm running the command within a TCC tab in Windows Terminal, and for every single sub-folder processed, it emits the following message:

TCC: C:\Users\John\Dropbox\Scripts\foreachsubfolder.bat [9] Take Command is not loaded

For reference, line nine is the closing parenthesis in the block of work to be done for each sub-folder. I'd like to suppress that, and honestly I don't even know why it's telling me that in the first place. Yes, I know TakeCommand is not loaded: is that a problem? A warning? An error?

Thanks in advance for any light anyone can shed on this for me.

 

[Charles Dye]

I am unable to replicate this error, even after changing the (.) to (*). Testing with foreachsubfolder echo Here! %%_cwd

What are you passing to ForEachSubfolder? An external? An alias? Another batch file?

 

[rconn]

Not reproducible here.

Do you have any of those commands aliased? Are you running any plugins?

 

[Phileosophos]

First, thanks for trying to reproduce, folks! I appreciate it. Second, to answer your questions:

1. The most common way I use that batch file is: ForEachSubFolder git pull to obtain the latest source code from a GitHub repo. No aliases involved, no batch files, just an invocation of the Git source control executable git.exe.
2. I do not have any of the commands aliased. I do, however, actually have some plugins installed.

I saw another thread recently and checked out some of the lovely plugins made available by @Charles Dye--thank you so much for sharing your toys!--leaving a few of them enabled in my plugins directory by default. The contents of my TCMD33\plugins folder include the following:

ByArgs.dll
byargs.html
FunctionHelp.dll
functionhelp.html
FunctionHelp.txt
Say.dll
say.html
Tasks.chm
Tasks.dll
tasks.html

Does that help make sense of it somehow? Again, please forgive my ignorance. Despite being such a long time user, I'd never tried any plugins until maybe a month ago. Cheers!

John

 

[rconn]

First, try starting TCC with the /I startup option (which tells it not to read TCMD.INI, load TCSTART or load any plugins or library functions. If that works, you can use the /II, /IL, /IP, and /IS startup options to narrow down what's causing that message. (See "TCC Startup Options" in the help file for details on those options.)

 

[Phileosophos]

When I try to start TakeCommand with that "/I" startup option, I'm told it's an invalid option.

 

[Charles Dye]

When I try to start TakeCommand with that "/I" startup option, I'm told it's an invalid option.

That's an option for TCC.EXE, not TCMD.EXE.

 

[rconn]

When I try to start TakeCommand with that "/I" startup option, I'm told it's an invalid option.

Your original post said you were running TCC in a Windows Terminal tab, not in Take Command. As Charles said, /I is a TCC option, not a Take Command option.

 

[Phileosophos]

Ah, sorry, I have a few active threads on this board and clicked a link in the email notification URL not realizing it was for the other thread. For the record, starting TCC with the /I switch doesn't make any difference. I'm still getting the same message every time. Sorry for the confusion. Interestingly enough, I have a different machine with an older version of TakeCommand (v31), which doesn't have any plugins loaded, and I see the same issue there. I don't think the plugins are the issue.

 

[Phileosophos]

Aha! I figured it out. I'll post for future reference in case it helps others. A little detective work led me to an alias I had created years ago:

cd=cdd /t

I normally use TakeCommand and like the file explorer pane to stay in sync. But of course TCC will complain that TakeCommand is not loaded when it sees that. I guess I need to figure out a way to do my aliasing conditionally or abandon that one. Thanks for all the help!

 

[Charles Dye]

Or just change the cd "%%d" in your batch file to *cd "%%d"

 

[Phileosophos]

An excellent point! I could just temporarily disable the aliasing there. Much obliged!