Why does "(title Test) & pause" change the window title to "Test - pause" and not to "Test"?

[PiotrMP006]

Why does "(title Test) & pause" change the window title to "Test - pause" and not to "Test"?



Please help

[Simon Sheppard]

While the session is paused, the text "- pause" will be appended to the window TITLE.

The only way I can think to prevent that would be setting a TITLE with lots of spaces at the end, up to the maximum length of 243 or 259 characters long. Then the additional "- pause" text will not be displayed.
There is a non-zero chance this might create some kind of overflow condition, but it seems to work in a quick test.

[jeb]

You could use

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pause 2>nul | title Test

[Simon Sheppard]

Interesting, just piping pause to title throws the error "The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe"
but if you redirect stdout to Nul, there is no error:

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pause >nul | title

[jeb]

Interesting, just piping pause to title throws the error "The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe"
but if you redirect stdout to Nul, there is no error:

But it's pretty obvious that there's nothing left that could be written to the pipe if you redirect the output to nul.

[Simon Sheppard]

Yes, so I think its better to use >nul rather than 2>nul which just hides the error, but I'm still puzzled why the error in the first place - where did the pipe go?
Perhaps it is just because Title does not accept piped input.

[jeb]

You are right, it seems better to use > NUL.

but I'm still puzzled why the error in the first place - where did the pipe go?

The title command ends shortly after the title is set, but the pause only generates the output when the user presses a key.

[Simon_Weel]

If you add something like echo, then it works fine:

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title Test & echo & pause