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Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott

Reputation: 21172

Windows Batch file debugger?

Is there a program like Visual Studio that allows you to debug (dos) batch files? What techniques could I use to debug? Martin Brown answered a batch file question with a nice for / each loop. I would love to see the values of the variables as they loop.

for /R A %i IN (*.jpg) DO xcopy %i B /M

Upvotes: 6

Views: 12122

Answers (7)

meetjaydeep
meetjaydeep

Reputation: 1850

As mentioned by other users you can use Running Steps software. You can download it from here

Upvotes: 0

Marek Szanyi
Marek Szanyi

Reputation: 2328

Well i found one it name is Running Steps. You can read more about it at its Homepage . Anyway it supports breakpoints, step in step over and stuff like that :)

Upvotes: 2

Gonzalo Isaza
Gonzalo Isaza

Reputation: 21

Running Steps is like the IDE. You get an 'Analyzer' which is the equivalent of a compiler. It shows you errors and warnings in your code. It has an integrated environment that allows you to step over, into, etc. It even unrolls for loops which I find awesome. Check it out at http://www.steppingsoftware.com. It's helped me a lot.

Upvotes: 2

nray
nray

Reputation: 2118

To print the values of the variables as they loop you could try:

for /l %A in (1,1,10) do (
    @echo %A
)

If you want to stop and examine each line as it is executed try:

for /l %A in (1,1,10) do (
    @echo %A
    pause
)

which will halt the script at each iteration.

Your example looks like a backup script for images;

for /R %i in (*.jpg) do (
    @echo %i
    xcopy %i %DESTINATION% /M
)

If you make a script of this you can pipe all the output to a log file, just don't forget to use %%i instead of %i if you're not typing this at the shell.

Upvotes: 5

Don Dickinson
Don Dickinson

Reputation: 6248

you mean besides just doing an echo HERE I AM type of thing? i don't know of any. i just debug my batch files by remming out the actions and adding echo's until i know its working correctly. i also wrote my own one line "outputdebugstring" application that sends anything on its command line to the debugger, but that probably isn't necessary for most batches where you can just watch the screen. inserting "pause"'s can help slow things down too.

best regards don

Upvotes: 2

Keng
Keng

Reputation: 53101

I use Notepad++ to at least give me colour coding when I'm writing/modifying.

Upvotes: 1

Rook
Rook

Reputation: 62538

Like VS ? Not that I know of.

As far as variable values go, you can always print them out.

Upvotes: 1

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