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Anne Quinn
Anne Quinn

Reputation: 13000

(VS2010 C++) Execute a command every time the program is run?

The IDE I'm using is VS2010 for writing C++

I want to execute the command cmd C:\utilities\unix\tail.exe -f -n15 $(ProjectDir)Log.txt every time the program I'm coding is run from within the IDE. (This command should open a console to track changes made to the file Log.txt)

There are ways to make a command run every time the program is built, but I can't find a way to make a command run whenever the program itself is run, even if it's already built. Where or how might I be able to set that kind of thing up?

I've tried putting $(TargetPath) & C:\utilities\unix\tail.exe -f -n15 $(ProjectDir)Log.txt into the project's Properties->Debugging->Command (TargetPath is the full name of the debug executable) but VS reads the entire thing as a filename and gets confused.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 101

Answers (1)

Anton Savin
Anton Savin

Reputation: 41301

You can create a file run.cmd for example next to the vcxproj file, which would contain:

%1
C:\utilities\unix\tail.exe -f -n15 %2Log.txt

And then in Properties->Debugging->Command you write:

$(ProjectDir)\run.cmd

and in Command Arguments you write:

"$(TargetPath)" "$(ProjectDir)"

I may have misspelled the macros, but you get the idea: it executes first your program and then whatever you want.

Edit: Unfortunately it works only if you start without debugging (Ctrl+F5), because otherwise the debugger tries to attach to run.cmd and complains that the format is unsupported.

Upvotes: 1

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