Question

In my school to use CMD you have to run it via command.com

When I do this and use the command “help” it will open the batch file help instead of displaying the help command.

Just out of interest, is there anyway to get past this other than moving or renaming the file?

Answer 1

You may know the full path name (with extension) of the executable file with the Batch file below (I call it PATHOF.BAT):

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
REM CREATE A LIST OF FILE NAMES ADDING THE EXECUTABLE EXTENSIONS
SET NAMEEXT=!PATHEXT:.=%1.!
REM SEARCHES FILE NAMES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY, IF FOUND: ERRORLEVEL=1
FOR %%N IN (%NAMEEXT%) DO IF EXIST %%N ECHO %%N & EXIT /B 1
REM SEARCHES FILE NAMES IN DIRECTORIES OF PATH VARIABLE, IF FOUND: ERRORLEVEL=2
FOR %%N IN (%NAMEEXT%) DO IF NOT "%%~$PATH:N" == "" ECHO %%~$PATH:N & EXIT /B 2
REM IF FILE NOT FOUND, ERRORLEVEL=0
ECHO '%1' is not an external command or batch file located in PATH & EXIT /B 0

For example: pathof help