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sxekjb

very good, thank you. Had to run the batch a few times for names with multiple "&" in it, but worked great.

sxekjb

I need to rename files that have "&" in the name and replace with "and". I'm using dir /s /a | find /i "&" to find all of the file names.

Thanks

sxekjb

you can put the output of arp to a file and use it as a variable there using

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@echo off
set arp=arp -a
%arp% | find /i "00-1C-C0-4A-ED-AD" >>output.log
for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%G IN (output.log) DO set IP=%%G
echo %IP%
pause
del output.log

sxekjb

psservice start/stop/restart etc included with pstools

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96649.aspx

sxekjb

I've had most success querying for installed software by going through hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall This has a list of installed software and keys that give info on the displayname,version, install location etc. try using the reg command and output the results. IE REG QUE...

sxekjb

Just my input, but I've never gotten set /p to work through a psexec remote command terminal; There's an unknown on-going keyboard input issue with it, just google "set /p psexec" and you'll see what I mean. Tks

sxekjb

Thanks for your response. As far as I can see I can do everything vbscript can do with command prompt. If anyone has any examples to give as to why some scripts are preferred to be written in vbscript I'd like to see it.

sxekjb

I know this is discussed in a multipage thread argument, but can someone give me the pros and cons of both and include a scenario. In other words what makes vbscript more powerful than using a dos batch.

sxekjb

Thanks! that function worked out very nicely.

sxekjb

try using

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FOR /D %%i IN (C:\docume~1\TestLogs\ABC*) DO RMDIR /S /Q %%i

sxekjb

Sorry, I don't think clear text are the words I'm looking for, but I'm trying to use set /p to prompt for credentials to set as a variable. Is there a way to make whatever the user enters to not show up, or just doesn't show any characters. example: set /p pw=password please: when the user enters th...

sxekjb

if you're using set /p to prompt for user credentials, is there a way to make whatever text that's entered in clear text.

sxekjb

http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html

You can set different contents of a file as a token and perform a command against it using the for /f command.

sxekjb

Figured it out. Created notepad list of names with the old name as token=1 and new as token=2 Then: FOR /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN (names.txt) DO netdom renamecomputer %%G /newname:%%H /userD:domain\username /passwordD:password /userO:domain\username /passwordO:password

sxekjb

I need to rename quite a lot of machines over the domain. Right now I'm doing this using the netdom command netdom renamecomputer mycomputer /newname:new_name /ud:domain\user /pd:password -I'm having to go through this step every time. I'm wondering if there's a way to create a batch that will autom...

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SET /P credentials q

Need to know if this is possible