Command Prompt Portable 2.1 has been released. It's a simple utility that allows you to add a link to a customizable command prompt to the menu in the PortableApps.com Suite. You can change the colors, prompt, columns, window title and more by editing a simple batch file. This release adds Windows 7 support and an improved installer. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
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Features
Command Prompt Portable is a simple utility that allows you to have a custom command line setup on any Windows computer you come across. It has built in support for the command line interpreters on both Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well as the ability to customize using simple DOS commands by editing the .bat file within CommandPromptPortable\Data\batch after you've run it once. You can customize the prompt, colors, window title, columns and more. A basic batch file is included with some simple settings.
You can also pass in paths you'd like the command prompt to start in by starting CommandPromptPortable.exe with a command line parameter of the path (Windows 2000 and up only). Advanced users can enable auto-complete by following the directions within the Other\Source\readme.txt file.
Helpful Tip: Launch a command prompt with your own portable command line tools in the path by adding SET PATH=%~d0\UtilsDirectory;%PATH% to the batch file and placing your tools in X:\UtilsDirectory
New In This Release
This release adds Windows 7 support and an improved installer.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Command Prompt Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Command Prompt Portable is available for immediate download from the Command Prompt Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Hmm, doesn't look like the
Hmm, doesn't look like the usual "some files are not available on some mirrors" shenanigans. This release is completely missing from the file listings (and as a result you get redirected to the unabridged complete PA file listings).
Yup
We've had constant SourceForge.net issues since they upgraded their site. This is one of them.
It looks pretty though! Oh
It looks pretty though!
Oh wait it's giving HTTP 500s now. Not so pretty.
[Edit: Managed to get the installer by building a mirrored URL by hand.]
example constructed url
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/portableapps/CommandPromptP...
all one line.
sourceforge will throw a 404 but heanet comes through
with the download
Automated tools finder
Finds all tools in first subdirectory of your installed directory and adds them to the path.
Set ptools to your directory to your installed files.
@echo offSET ptools=%~d0\installed
SET PATH=%PATH%;%ptools%
color f0
prompt $p$g
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
ver | find /i "ver"
FOR /F %%z in ('dir %%ptools%% /b') DO @set PATH=!PATH!;%ptools%\%%z
if exist Ppathparse.txt del Ppathparse.txt
echo %path% > Ppathparse.txt
endlocal
for /f "delims=^" %%x in (Ppathparse.txt) do set path=%%x
if exist Ppathparse.txt del Ppathparse.txt