write .bat file and execute command based on input - windows

Question

I have written a .bat file in windows. Which launch these url in browser

do some other task
START www.google.com
START www.microsoft.com
START www.apple.com

But the one I wrote is static which execute all together.

I would like to make it accept input and execute that command based on input.

For example

input 1 launch only www.google.com

input 2 launch only www.microsoft.com

input 3 launch only www.apple.com

input 4 do some other task or run a command

Also looking to open launch .bat file with associated keyboard shortcut.

if it matter I am gonna use this on Windows 10

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Could be something like this:

@echo off
echo.
echo Please specify the first site you would like to open:
set /p "Input1=Site: "
START %Input1%

echo Please specify the second site you would like to open:
set /p "Input2=Site: "
START %Input2%

echo Please specify the third site you would like to open:
set /p "Input3=Site: "
START %Input3%
echo.
echo Please specify a command you would like to run:
set /p "Input4=Command: "
%Input4%
pause

Answer 2

So after some search I was able to do this.

basically to accept input on .bat file you need this

set /P input="What you gonna do? "

and then one can use this as a variable

@echo Hello %input%!

To compare the input value, we can use IF statement and make it execute desired command

IF %input% == 1 cmd /k "yarn"
IF %input% == 2 cmd /k "yarn start"
IF %input% == 3 cmd /k "yarn dev"
IF %input% == 4 START www.google.com
IF %input% == 5 START www.apple.com
IF %input% == 6 cmd /k "cd changefolder"
IF %input% == 7 call another.bat

Final thing launching with keyboard-shortcut One can not assign keyboard-shortcut to .bat file directly. But you can assign to Shortcut. To do this

1. Right Click on .bat file and Click on Create Shortcut

2. Right Click on newly created Shortcut. Go to Properties. Enter desired key as shortcut. Click Ok

Booom. you are good to go.

So mine whole .bat file looks like this

@echo off
cls && cd pathtosomefolder

set /P input="Which command, My lord? "
@echo Running %input%!

IF %input% == 1 cmd /k "yarn"
IF %input% == 2 cmd /k "yarn start"
IF %input% == 3 cmd /k "yarn dev"
IF %input% == 4 START www.google.com
IF %input% == 5 START www.apple.com
IF %input% == 6 cmd /k "cd changefolder"
IF %input% == 7 call another.bat

Answer 3

// Edit

Some option to check input and run your command:

@echo off & setlocal

cd /d "D:\PathToSomeFolder"
title <nul & title ..\%~nx0

%:^)
set "_input=" & cls & echo/
echo/ Here are your command options: 
echo/ & type "%~f0"|findstr /b .Option 
for /f %%i in ('echo\prompt;$h^|cmd')do set "_bs=%%~i"

set /p "_opts= %_bs% What you gonna do? " || goto %:^)
echo=%_opts%|2>nul findstr /be [1-7] >nul || goto %:^)

for /f ^usebackq^tokens^=2^delims^=^= %%i in (`^<con: ^<nul ^
type "%~dpnx0"^|findstr /b .Option.%_opts%`)do <con: call %%~i

endlocal && goto :eof

 Option 1 = cmd /c "yarn"
 Option 2 = cmd /c "yarn dev"
 Option 3 = cmd /c "yarn start"
 Option 4 = cd /d "changefolder"
 Option 5 = start "" "www.apple.com"
 Option 6 = start "" "www.google.com"
 Option 7 = cmd /c "call another.bat"

Obs.: Use spaceOption 1 = command

Edit //

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You can use one loop from 1 to 5 to define your input with set /p and use the if condition to check if you were going to use explorer to open the folder, start your browser or run your command...

@echo off 

setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

:reset_cmd
set "_arg=" & cls 
for /l %%L in (1,1,5)do set "_input="

for /l %%L in (1,1,5)do set "_arg=%%~L" && <con: ^
     set /p "_input%%~L=Enter input %%~L: " || <nul ^
     goto :reset_cmd

for /l %%L in (1,1,!_arg!)do (
     if /i "!_input%%~L:~0,4!" == "yarn" (
         <con: rem./ &  !_input%%~L!
        )else if /i "!_input%%~L:~0,4!" == "www." (
         start "" /b chrome.exe --new-tab "!_input%%~L!" 
        )else if exist "!_input%%~L!\." (
         <con: explorer "!_input%%~L!\."
        )else !_input%%~L!
    )

endlocal && goto :eof