Odd problem running dos command

#1 · February 28, 2023, 12:07 pm

At the Windows commandline, you can force the creation multi levels deep with the following command:

mkdir F:\A-1Test\one\two\three \p

without having to have even the root folder in place. And it works fine from the actual commandline in shell.

But I cannot find a way to engage this from the RUN command in Visual Neo. It always throws the error "File Not Found" which makes no sense as there are no files involved, just folders.

Does anyone have a workaround for this?

Thank you in advance.

#2 · February 28, 2023, 1:31 pm

Hi @rcohen,

Try this ..

Run "cmd.exe" "/c mkdir D:\A-1Test\one\two\three \p" "LoadComplete+Hidden" "" ""

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#3 · February 28, 2023, 1:54 pm

@darbdenral, thank you very much. That did the trick.

I will have to figure out WHY that works now ;-) Can ANY dos call use that format?

Thanks a bunch

#4 · March 1, 2023, 10:00 am

@rcohen, no problem..

Pretty much, I know you can do quite a few commands this way. The “cmd /c” supports multiple commands in a single execution. Just put your commands in quotes like below, you can stack them . ;)

cmd /c "mkdir test" "cd test"

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#5 · March 1, 2023, 7:12 pm

Was creating folders and subfolders your actual goal?
Provided you have appropriate folder permissions, the native CreateFolder action can do that.

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