The Windows XP Embedded Command-Line Tool
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 15:03 UTC, submitted by anonymous
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007, due to be released on Nov. 1st, will include a redesigned command-line scripting tool. This whitepaper introduces the new tool and gives a few examples of what it can do. XPECMD, as it's called, is said to be a major upgrade to CMI Explorer, the tool that shipped with XPe SP1.
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jheee, yet another CLI for windows!
by mmu_man on Thu 12th Oct 2006 17:28 UTC
mmu_man
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2006-09-30

looks like windows will soon have more CLI shells than Unix...
Why can't they just strip monad or whatever ?
Unix has several shells, but at least the defaults are almost compatible with eath others (including ash/busybox for embeded IIRC).
What strikes me is MS is trying to fit windows into stuff where it might not be suitable (one-fits-all), yet designing separate implementations of stuff that could actually be common across platforms. There is probably an extraneous "not" opcode in someone's brain at Redmond ;)

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Doc Pain Member since:
2006-10-08

Will the shell be able to make use of "long file names" or will it work with "ye olde DOS" 8.3 filenames like PROGRA~1 or MICROS~1 as seen in "Windows XP"?

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MattKell_MSFT Member since:
2006-10-13

XPECMD supports both 8.3 and long filenames. For example, both of these commands are valid (provided the paths exist in your file system):

(EDIT: Due to limitations of this messageboard, each occurrence of "\\" should be a single backslash. I apparently can't type a single-backslash, though - it disappears once the comment is submitted.)

BUILD myCfg "c:\\My Images\\image1"
BUILD myCfg c:\\MYIMAG~1\\IMAGE1

As with most systems (and the CMD shell itself), paths with spaces must be enclosed in double-quotes to be treated as a single argument. That's the only major requirement.

Edited 2006-10-13 17:45

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MattKell_MSFT Member since:
2006-10-13

Just to clarify: XPECMD is not a shell, but rather a command-line tool that serves as a partial replacement for the GUI tools such as Target Designer and Component Database Manager. It functions in a similar manner to things like NETSH, which have very specific functions and syntax, and can be run in either an interactive or scripted mode.

Also, XPECMD is not for use within an XP Embedded runtime (hence one of the reasons we didn't call it a shell), but rather is used at the same level as Target Designer to help design, build and deploy runtimes.

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