Where is Start stored / What does it run under?

[taripo]

If I do dir start.exe /s/b<enter> I don't see it anywhere.

and if I do start /b xcopy /? <enter> so start is paused..

and looking in task manager or process explorer, I don't see start..

Also though.. When I run xcopy /? I don't even see xcopy.exe flash into and out of existence in task manager

[dbenham]

START is an internal command. It is a component of CMD.EXE


Dave Benham

[Squashman]

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-internal.html

[taripo]

ah thanks, of course.. like echo
(ADDED- and..good list posted there..)

And now I see xcopy(which is of course external) come up in task manager.. when it's open long enough for task manager to refresh and catch it. e.g. xcopy /L /S c:\windows\*.* c:\blah

[aGerman]

I don't remember if I ever posted that code before but the following separates internal from external commands listed by the HELP command.

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@echo off &setlocal

set /a int=0, ext=0
for /f %%i in ('help^|findstr /rbc:"[A-Z][ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]"') do (
  for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=?" %%j in ("%%i.exe?%%i.com") do (
    if "%%~$PATH:j%%~$PATH:k"=="" (
      call :out %%i
    ) else (
      set /a ext+=1
      echo %%i "%%~$PATH:j%%~$PATH:k"
    )
  )
)

echo(
echo internal %int%
echo external %ext%
pause>nul
goto :eof

:out
set /a int+=1
set "line=%1                                                  "
echo %line:~,50% - internal
goto :eof

Regards
aGerman