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Template for Yes/No Choice input in batch files
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@ECHO OFF | |
:start | |
SET choice= | |
SET /p choice=Do something? [N]: | |
IF NOT '%choice%'=='' SET choice=%choice:~0,1% | |
IF '%choice%'=='Y' GOTO yes | |
IF '%choice%'=='y' GOTO yes | |
IF '%choice%'=='N' GOTO no | |
IF '%choice%'=='n' GOTO no | |
IF '%choice%'=='' GOTO no | |
ECHO "%choice%" is not valid | |
ECHO. | |
GOTO start | |
:no | |
ECHO Do all of the no things here! | |
PAUSE | |
EXIT | |
:yes | |
ECHO Do all of the yes things here! | |
PAUSE | |
EXIT |
Thank you so much for your help.
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PowerShell and Batch are two different things. Batch files are handled by cmd.exe and you can double click them to run a string of commands. They are very old and it's not as good as linux bash or PowerShell
PowerShell scripts have the
.ps1
extension. You cannot just click them like a batch file, and you must call them from the powershell console.There are much more elegant ways to create a menu in Powershell, but porting the code above over to parity looks like so: