Question

I’d like to keep a ‘compile-counter’ for one of my projects. I figured a quick and dirty way to do this would be to keep a text file with a plain number in it, and then simply call upon a small script to increment this each time I compile.

How would I go about doing this using the regular Windows command line?

I don’t really feel like installing some extra shell to do this but if you have any other super simple suggestions that would accomplish just this, they’re naturally appreciated as well.

Answer 1

You can try a plain old batchfile.

@echo off for /f ' delims==' %%i in (counter.txt) do set /A temp_counter= %%i+1 echo %temp_counter% > counter.txt 

assuming the count.bat and counter.txt are located in the same directory.