I'm writing a java program that will take info from the command line and i'm required to make a batch file so that we dont need the java ... clause

I'm not very familiar with Dos, what i need from the batch is just take whatever user type from the command line and pass it to the java command.

say :
if user type

myProg arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4

the batch shoul convert that to

java myProg arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4

Please help

Thanks a lot

In batch files you can refer to command line arguments with %. Example:

@echo off
echo j | deltree %1 > nul

The %1 in the batch file will be replaced by the first argument.

%0 is the batch-file itself. The argument range goes from 0 to 9. If you need more args, you can use the shift command, which would move the value in %1 to %0, the one in %2 to %1 and so on, %9 would be the next argument. This way, you can load the entire command line into an environment variable:

if "%1"=="" goto nxt
:rep
set tempvar=%tempvar% %1
shift
if not "%2"=="" goto rep
:nxt
java myProg %tempvar%
set tempvar=

Sorry, that batch file wouldn't work, if should be the following:

:rep
shift
set tempvar=%tempvar% %0
if not "%1"=="" goto rep
java myProg %tempvar%
set tempvar=