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Thanks Steffen, yes, it does work. I've got both cases for "use" and "remove" now: So far, it seems to work fine.

(Not sure if I understood the previous approach.) Anyway, here's the actual data. First off, I run the line <"%ProgramFiles%\Firefox\search.json" jq -r ".visibleDefaultEngines|join(\",\")" and save its output to a variable which looks like: google-2018 bing amazon-en-GB chambers-en-GB ddg ebay-uk tw...

Basically this works, but it will not only match foo.log, bar.log and baz.log but bar-tender.log or baz-2019.log as well.
Findstr will merely do what supposed to when run like So I'm not sure if findstr can be used for the filter logic.

I've got a directory with many files (all with the same extension) and just need to keep a part of them, the rest should be deleted. The files to keep are stored in the variable %Exceptions% e.g. "foo bar baz" (generated by another process). I'd like to keep this as flexible as possible, i.e. the sc...

I tried it, it works as well if entered manually, but it won't work in my script. But I guess I've found the culprit, it's Setlocal enableDelayedExpansion enableExtensions The errorlevel handling works as expected without enableDelayedExpansion , however I can't do without it. I'm unsure what's best...

I need to extend a script by the ability to check the output of a text dump. The script has to know the existence of a specific pattern and should store its state to a variable (0 or 1, basically). The text dump will be some formatted xml output and the pattern looks like <!-- foo:1 --> followed by ...

Hi, I want to set the default (local) printer in a script. Basically, what I do is checking the default printer device. If it's "Adobe PDF", I want to look for another device and make it the default printer. I've got that part of the script already. The line wmic Printer where name!='Adobe...

Thanks alot for the many solutions, I tried Aacini's version (haven't fully understood the masking yet) and it works.
The code just looks a bit "awkward" (and will get a comment).
Compo's reg query trick is another good approach - I'll check it out, too.

Hi, I'm working on a deletion script for Adobe software which aims at the update "nagware" (AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0 etc.). My script also deletes two registry keys added by Acrobat on each update: @echo off Setlocal enableExtensions enableDelayedExpansion REM (...) Set AcrContextItems=^ HKLM\S...

Sorry for the late reply, of course you were right.
Initially I wanted to do add parameter expansion as well, thus the remnant /f option...

Hi, I'm revising a script, looking for simplifications. The script needs three files to process. This is what its author originally wrote: If Not Exist 7z.dll Echo 7z.dll missing &Goto :EOF If Not Exist 7zFM.exe Echo 7zFM.exe missing &Goto :EOF If Not Exist 7zG.exe Echo 7zG.exe missing &...

aGerman, I now use the following script @echo off &SetLocal Set "rkey=HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters" For /f "tokens=3*" %%? In ('reg query %rkey% /v "DataBasePath"') Do ( For /f "tokens=*" %%i In ('call type "%%~?\hosts"...

@penpen: Maybe I mixed something up - I meant the localhost "mapping": the Windows default is 127.0.0.1, some people change it to 0.0.0.0 later. Before appending new content the correct mapping must be detected. @aGerman: Thanks for the script, very cool concept! I changed it slightly and ...

Hi,

I need a routine to detect which loopback device has been chosen within the hosts file, i.e.
127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0: I need to return the appropriate value as variable (for another batch file).

What do you think?

Quite impressing, thanks alot! I digged up an approach that works with the tool gawk . My biggest fortunes file includes 728 quotes. I finally switched to UTF-8 encoding, too. A single cmd script doing all the fortunes functionality would be very nice. My current approach includes 3 files, a cmd scr...