Following on from an answer to this question
For the Windows command prompt I can define aliases as follows:
@echo off DOSKEY ns=npm start DOSKEY nsr=npm run serve I want to define an alias that will combine these two commands. I tried the following:
@echo off DOSKEY nss=npm start && npm run serve When I try to open the command prompt the window will open but the > prompt does not appear.
I think that the inclusion of && is causing a problem.
The command separator for DOSKEY is $T
For your example:
DOSKEY nss=npm start $T npm run serve 
> prompt would appear. I encountered a different problem after that. If the first command failed for some reason then the second command would still execute. I opted for a different approach which I will post.
$T to form &&, and this will be the best answer.
DOSKEY nss=npm start $T$T npm run serve - works perfectly! From microsoft docs using $T is preferred method. doskeys via MicrosoftI looked at an answer to a question on superuser. The following approach resolved my problem:
@echo off DOSKEY nss=npm start ^&^& npm run serve AddConsoleAlias. It does the substitution in the input buffer, before a console client program (e.g. cmd.exe) even reads a line of input. These aliases only work at the start of a line entered in the console (i.e. you can't pipe to them) and not in batch scripts. For doskey.exe, you can use $T$T in place of &&, which is more flexible then using ^ to escape the & operator in the command line.My approach is to load the macros from a text file:
a.bat: @doskey /macrofile=C:\%HOMEPATH%\bin\aliases.txt and in the macro file, && works:
aliases.txt: cl=cd /d $* && dir Then if I type "cl bin" from HOMEPATH, it does "cd /d bin" and then "dir":
C:\Users\mike> cl bin 09/17/2020 09:27 AM 1,303 a.bat 09/30/2020 03:17 PM 886 aliases.txt Try writing it as a batch file and then calling the batch file use the DOSKEY command
REM do_npm.bat npm start npm run serve Then, run the DOSKEY command
DOSKEY npm=do_npm.bat See if that works for you
