profile.cmd

This is the effort to make a usable profile script for cmd.exe, the Windows command prompt.

 1: :::: profile.cmd - profile script for cmd.exe
 2: :: Maintainer:   Szymon 'Polemon' Bereziak <polemon@polemon.org>
 3: :: Last change:  2012-12-22
 4: :: URL:          http://polemon.org
 5: :: Version:      0.3
 6: 
 7: :: config vars
 8: set DIRCMD=/A /O
 9: 
10: :: additional variables
11: set DESKTOP=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
12: set ~=%USERPROFILE%
13: 
14: :: expanding PATH
15: set PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\
16: ::set PATH=%PATH%;%SystemDrive%\texlive\2011\bin\win32\
17: set PATH=%PATH%;%SystemDrive%\Python27\
18: set PATH=%PATH%;%SystemDrive%\Python27\Scripts\
19: set PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\GnuWin32\bin\
20: set PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\
21: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin
22: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\LLVM\bin
23: set PATH=%PATH%;"%USERPROFILE%\bin\"
24: 
25: :: feature settings
26: doskey /MACROFILE="%USERPROFILE%\macros.lst" > NUL
27: ::prompt $E[33m%COMPUTERNAME%$S$E[42m$P$S$E[31m$$$S$E[m
28: prompt %COMPUTERNAME%$S$P$S$$$S
29: color 07
30: title Console
31:
32: @echo off
33: cls

The file expands %PATH% for use with GnuWin32, Notepad++, 7-zip, as well as a private \bin directory. It also sets the console to a more comfortable state.

The doskey macro file is macros.lst which should be next to profile.cmd.

macros.lst

1: l=ls -F $*
2: ll=ls -lhF $*
3: la=ls -AF $*
4: lla=ls -AlhF $*
5: t=tree /f
6: e=notepad++ $*

Both files are supposed to be placed in %USERPROFILE%.

I suggest making a shortcut to cmd.exe with the following settings:

Target:

%ComSpec% /k "%USERPROFILE%\profile.cmd"

Start in:

%USERPROFILE%

Here's an example:

I recommend increasing the buffer size to at least 2048 lines. This is a console, you want appropriate scrollback capabilities afterall…

The \bin directory can be filled with stuff normaly used with aliases on other shells as well: I have this in \bin:

unxz.cmd

1: @xz.exe -d %*

Normally, I wouldn't make an extra file for just this single command, but given that there is no such functionality on cmd.exe, I must do it that way.

In case someone has additional suggestions, please let me know.

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