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CMDebug : An Editor / Debugger for CMD and TCC-RT Batch Files

CMDebug is a stand-alone version of the Take Command IDE and batch debugger component. CMDebug is intended for developers creating batch files to run in CMD (the Windows default command processor) or TCC-RT (the free runtime version of TCC).

CMDebug allows you to write and debug your batch scripts with the integrated graphical IDE. CMDebug includes tabbed edit windows and a sophisticated debugger with single stepping, breakpoints, syntax coloring, tooltips, bookmarks, and tabbed variable and watch windows. Windows batch file programming has never been easier or more powerful!

You can use CMDebug to develop either CMD-compatible batch files (.BAT or .CMD), or TCC-RT-compatible scripts (.BTM). If you select the "TCC Syntax" option, CMDebug supports the full TCC-RT command set. If you select the "CMD Syntax" option, CMDebug will disable TCC-only internal commands, variables, and functions. Some internal CMD / TCC commands will also behave slightly differently or modify their display output in order to match CMD's behavior more closely.

Using CMDebug with TCC-RT allows you to create (and encrypt) scripts using the TCC command language, and then distribute them with the free TCC-RT runtime on an unlimited number of target machines.

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A Better Way to Write Batch Scripts

Debugging

Create and debug your batch scripts in a fraction of the time with the integrated editor and batch file debugger.

Multilingual

The user interface is available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. (Online help is currently in English only.)

Online help

The comprehensive help (including context-sensitive popup help for command line syntax), speeds your development time and reduces syntax errors.


Packed With Features for Writing
and Debugging Your Batch Files

  • Create and debug your batch scripts with the integrated graphical IDE. The IDE includes tabbed edit windows and a sophisticated debugger with single stepping, breakpoints, syntax coloring, tooltips, bookmarks, tabbed variable and watch windows. Windows batch file programming has never been easier or more powerful!
  • The TCC-RT scripting language is a massive superset of the Windows CMD shell, with 250+ internal commands, 400+ internal functions, and 320+ system variables. Almost all of the CMD command line commands (e.g. DIR, COPY, DEL, START, etc.) are enhanced with hundreds of additional options. And TCC adds more than 200 new commands. TCC-RT can usually do in one or two lines what requires dozens of CMD commands (if CMD can do it at all).
  • The scripting language includes a complete set of extended flow control structures including IF-Then-Else, DO and FOR loops, SWITCH, subroutines, batch libraries, and more.
  • Monitor your system's hardware and software events, and execute commands when an event is triggered. You can monitor directory changes, the clipboard, event logs, Ethernet and WiFi connections, services, processes, and USB and Firewire connections.
  • Environment variable substitution is greatly enhanced, including nested variables, delayed expansion, indirect variables, multidimensional array variables, and direct access to the system, user, and volatile variables in the registry.
  • Select or exclude files by date, time, size, owner, and extended wildcards or regular expressions for extraordinary flexibility in file management.
  • Specify multiple filenames for most file processing commands (i.e., COPY, DEL, DIR, MOVE, etc.), or optionally the name of a file that contains the filename arguments. (COPY even supports multiple targets as well as multiple sources.)
  • Multiple types of I/O redirection are available, including redirecting and piping to STDERR, "in-process" pipes, "here-document" and "here-string" redirection, and Tee and Y pipe fittings.
  • Send keystrokes to any application (console or GUI).
  • TCC-RT includes internal compression and extraction commands for ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR, JAR, GZIP, and BZIP files.
  • You can access FTP, TFTP and HTTP (including SSL and SSH) directories and files in all command processor file-handling commands (COPY, DEL, MOVE, etc.).
  • Internal support is included for Lua, REXX, PowerShell, Python, Tcl/tk, and any Windows Active Scripting language. You can even combine multiple languages in your batch scripts.
  • And many thousands more -- see our online help for details.

CMDebug is compatible with any version of Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Server 2016, Server 2019, and Server 2022.

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$99.95

Single system; multisystem discounts

  • Tabbed console windows with 18 themes - run any command line app in a tab window
  • Includes TCC and CMDebug
  • Windows Explorer integration
  • Programmable toolbar
  • Forum-based support; optional Extended Support
  • 90-day unconditional return guarantee
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$69.95

Single system; multisystem discounts

  • Windows command processor (CMD.EXE replacement)
  • 270+ internal commands (CMD has about 40)
  • More than 750 internal variables and variable functions
  • Forum-based support; optional Extended Support
  • 90-day unconditional return guarantee
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CMDebug

$29.95

Single system; multisystem discounts

  • Batch editor and debugger for CMD and TCC-RT batch files
  • Set breakpoints and single-step through your batch files
  • Watch variables, call stack, breakpoint, and modified variables windows
  • Forum-based support
  • 90-day unconditional return guarantee
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