Choice

Choice


MS-DOS and Windows command line choice command

  • The choice command allows users to keep batch files and scripts from running while they make a set of choices.

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP users who have batch files that utilize the choice command should modify the batch file to use the MS-DOS set command.

    Availability

  • Choice is an external command and is available for the following Microsoft operating systems. Early versions of MS-DOS used choice.com as the external file. All versions of Windows utilize choicee.exe as the external file.

  • MS-DOS 6.0+

  • Windows 95

  • Windows 98

  • Windows Vista

  • Windows 7

  • Windows 8

  • Windows 10

    Choice syntax

  • Windows Vista and later syntax

  • Windows XP and earlier syntax

    Windows Vista and later syntax

  • CHOICE /C choices /N /CS /T timeout /D choice /M text

  • /C choices Specifies the list of choices to be created. Default list is "YN".

  • /N Hides the list of choices in the prompt. The message before the prompt is displayed and the choices are still enabled.

  • /CS Enables case-sensitive choices to be selected. By default, the utility is case-insensitive.

  • /T timeout The number of seconds to pause before a default choice is made. Acceptable values are from 0 to 9999. If 0 is specified, there will be no pause and the default choice is selected.

  • /D choice Specifies the default choice after nnnn seconds. Character must be in the set of choices specified by /C option and must also specify nnnn with /T.

  • /M text Specifies the message to show before the prompt. If not specified, the utility displays only a prompt.

    NOTE:

  • The ERRORLEVEL environment variable is set to the index of the key that was selected from the set of choices. The first choice listed returns a value of 1, the second a value of 2, etc. If the user presses a key that is not a valid choice, the tool sounds a warning beep. If tool detects an error condition, it returns an ERRORLEVEL value of 255. If the user presses Ctrl+BREAK or Ctrl+C, the tool returns an ERRORLEVEL value of 0. When you use ERRORLEVEL parameters in a batch program, list them in decreasing order.

    Examples

    CHOICE /?
    CHOICE /C YNC /M "Press Y for
    Yes, N for No or C for Cancel."
    CHOICE /T 10 /C ync /CS /D y
    CHOICE /C ab /M "Select a for option 1 and b for option 2."
    CHOICE /C ab /N /M "Select a for option 1 and b for option 2."

    Windows XP and earlier syntax

  • choice [/C:choices] /N /S [/T:c,nn] text
    Options

  • /C:choices Specifies allowable keys. Default is Y/N.

  • /N Do not display choices and "?" at end of prompt string.

  • /S Treat choice keys as case-sensitive.

  • /T:c,nn Default choice to c after nn seconds.
    text Prompt string to display.


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