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How do I Create Scripts to run MOVES3 from the Command Line?

See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models.

While the easiest way to interact with MOVES3 is via its graphical user interface (GUI), it is sometimes useful to process MOVES RunSpecs in batches via the Windows command line. To this end, MOVES3 has a set of commands that can be accessed via the command line tool Ant. These commands can be further scripted using Batch files or PowerShell scripts.

Running MOVES from the Windows Command Line provides a brief introduction to the MOVES Ant commands and example batch scripts for running multiple MOVES RunSpecs in series. MOVES2014 has different commands.

Additional help on the technical aspects of running MOVES is available at https://github.com/USEPA/EPA_MOVES_Model/tree/master/docs