Is there a way to create a shortcut (.lnk) file that uses a DOS command line instead of pointing to a file?
It would be great to simply DC a shortcut instead of having to invoke a command line every time I want to do this specific action.
Thanks for your help.
Windows shortcuts can point to any command. If you want to run a "DOS" command, you are probably looking for one of the commands which is part of the cmd program (which also can run batch-files). For running those built-in commands you have to run via cmd, e.g.,
cmd /k dir
but if you want to direct the output of the command to a file, you will have to run that within a batch-file, or in a properly quoted command passed to cmd, e.g.,
cmd /k "dir >\mydirectory"
Keep in mind that the shortcut can be told to run in a particular directory. If you do not specify it, that will be in the system directory.
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