Editing Executing .phar Files on Windows (section)

== Creating a batch file ==

<p class="alert-warning">First, the '''wrong''' way to do it. It's perplexing that the installation instructions for PHPUnit are wrong. They say to create the batch file like this:</p>

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echo @php "%~dp0phpunit.phar" %* > phpunit.bat
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Now the '''right''' way (in powershell, at least). 

<syntaxhighlight lang="powershell"> 
echo '@php "%~dp0phpunit.phar" %* ' > phpunit.bat
</syntaxhighlight>

* Make sure there is a space after `%*`!
* The `.bat` file can be saved anywhere that's accessible via the `PATH` environment variable, but it makes the most sense to save it alongside the `.phar` file in `c:\bin` so it's obvious that the corresponding batch file exists, and so it can be cleaned up along with the `.phar` file if that one ever needs to be deleted.