Direct the command to a newly opened separate command prompt using bat file

Question

I have a command prompt shortcut that run a bat file when it's launched. Once it is launched I will issue another command,say my_command, which is added as doskey macro in login.bat

The flow is somewhat like this.

I have a cmd shortcut with target set as:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "D:\\login.bat"

where login.bat sets the environment.

Once the cmd prompt is active I should issue another command, say my_command (which should be run in the currently open cmd prompt)

Inside login.bat I have the following lines

...
doskey my_command=another_login.bat DEBUG 32

I was trying to write a bat file to do the whole thing.

I am not supposed to change login.bat

What I tried is :

start C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "D:\\login.bat"
my_command

The command my_command gets run on the bat file's command prompt.

How do I make the command my_commnad run on the newly opened command prompt and not in the bat file's cmd prompt?

Answer 1

Try this:

start C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "D:\\login.bat & devenv"

Answering your edit: bad news.

You cannot run a Doskey macro from a batch file.

Reference: http://ss64.com/nt/doskey.html

Can you just directly run the command you are setting up with doskey?

start C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "D:\\login.bat & another_login.bat DEBUG 32"

Answer 2

You need to specify the full path to devenv inside the batch file, and that path will depend on your version of Visual Studio.

Try replacing devenv with one of these:

VS 2013:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

VS 2012:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

VS 2010:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Edit in response to your comment

The doskey.exe executable is located in C:\Windows\System32\doskey.exe. Referencing it by full path should work.