Hide/Show windows console?

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I have ~20 consoles that I don't want to see in my taskbar (which is already pretty full). At the moment I just build my app as window apps instead of console so I see nothing except the process in the process list (via task manager).

I like to see the console output once in a while. Is there an app I may use? Maybe something like linux screen would be nice.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '12 at 05:27

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Console lets you run consoles (cmd.exe, PowerShell, whatever you configure) in tabs.

answered Oct 24 '12 at 05:27

Mark Allen

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

Try ConEmu - Windows Console Emulator. I'm the author of it.

I suggest two ways to open bunch of tabs

Use of "Task file". It is a plain text file, each line - one new tab. Sample batch file

echo "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%>%TEMP%\bunch.txt
echo "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%>>%TEMP%\bunch.txt
echo "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%>>%TEMP%\bunch.txt
echo "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%>>%TEMP%\bunch.txt
start "" "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu.exe" /cmd @%TEMP%\bunch.txt

Another way use /single switch

start "" "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu.exe" /single /cmd "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%
start "" "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu.exe" /single /cmd "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%
start "" "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu.exe" /single /cmd "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%
start "" "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu.exe" /single /cmd "Z:\path\app.exe" %VAR%

PS. You can also open several consoles on one tab - SplitScreen. And you may start several tabs with several splits.

Hide/Show windows console?

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