I am facing a rather annoying issue when trying to write a batchscript file for my assignment, the assignment asks me to open a new command prompt window, change its color and make it print the current windows version. I can make it open the new window and change the color but no matter what I do it will always execute any new commands including the ver command on the old command prompt window, I have tried using & to run multiple commands but it just does nothing.

start cmd /k color F1 & ver
pause

This is the code I have now, any help would be appreciated

CodePudding user response：

Have you tried

start "My assignment" cmd /k "color F1 & ver"

Note that the window title is the first quoted string in the start command.

CodePudding user response：

Without double quotes only the "color f1" command is being passed to your new cmd window.

start cmd /k "color F1 & ver"
pause

I think will give you the results you want.

CodePudding user response：

To undertake the task you've specifically shown us, there is no need whatsoever to use the color command, and as a result, include an ampersand to join two commands.

If you open a Command Prompt window, type cmd.exe /? and press the ENTER key, you should see that there is a /T option you can use.

Start %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /T:F1 /D /K Ver