Command line tool scripts / Windows 10

[BastelFritz]

I try to follow this tutorial:
https://qcad.org/de/tutorial-command-li ... rten%C2%A0


It does not start. After looking for issues with spaces etc I came finally to the point, that even qcad -h does not work as expected:

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I opened a cmd shell (this time as administrator), cd to the QCAD directory and show the Windows version.

Next line I try displaying the help text, but no echo.

Then I type only "qcad" - this launches QCAD perfectly. It works also to open a drawing.


Should this be possible on a Windows 10 computer?


Version:
3.22.0.0 (3.22.0)
Internet:
QCAD.org
Erstellungsdatum:
Mar 1 2019
Revision:
2ba5a26
Qt Version:
5.5.1
Architektur:
x86_64
Compiler:
MSVC++ 12.0 (2013)

[andrew]

Windows applications can only either provide a graphical user interface or command line output, not both. To see the output of a command line tool, please stream it to a file and then output the file:

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qcad -h 1>log 2>&1
type log

The standard QCAD command line tools also do that in their batch file launch scripts:

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qcad.exe -no-gui -allow-multiple-instances -autostart scripts\Pro\Tools\Dwg2Pdf\Dwg2Pdf.js %0 %* 1>%temp%\dwg2pdf.log 2>&1
type %temp%\dwg2pdf.log
del %temp%\dwg2pdf.log

[BastelFritz]

Windows applications can only either provide a graphical user interface or command line output, not both.

This was the crucial hint. I could sort out my initial errors quickly afterwards.

Thank you for posting detailed answer with piping command, works like a charme now.