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mataha

I've encountered a behaviour I do not quite understand. C:\Users\user> A.cmd Waiting for 1 seconds, press a key to continue ... A.cmd: @echo off (goto) 2>nul || B.cmd B.cmd @echo off (goto) 2>nul || "%SystemRoot%\system32\timeout.exe" /t 1 Why is echo state not restored afterwards? Does using (goto)...

mataha

My thoughts exactly; 2745 (as of now) views is more than this board might get in a week.

Here's hoping that, one day, AI can actually help writing Batch...

mataha

Escaping the quotes shouldn't be necessary: for /f delims^= %%g in ('""D:\some\path\with blanks inside\myprog.exe" -p "......" %1"') do set "....." We have a discussion about it here on DosTips. I will see if I can dig up that thread. I've answered myself - those escaped quotes lose their semantics...

mataha

Escaping the quotes shouldn't be necessary:

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for /f delims^= %%g in ('""D:\some\path\with blanks inside\myprog.exe" -p "......" %1"') do set "....."

mataha

Regarding for /r : there is no tokenization involved as far as the first argument (directory) is concerned; if there are leading and trailing quotes by the time cmd has finished parsing the line, they are stripped. That's it. If you want to use a variable there, it has to be expanded eagerly (i.e. v...

mataha

Should be resilient enough:

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@setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
@set field1=a
@set field2=(a
@set field3=2
@set field4=34564119
@setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

@for /f delims^= %%s in ("(!field1!;!field2!;!field3!;!field4!)") do @(echo(%%s) >"file4.tmp"

mataha

Does this answer your question? Obviously you have to run it from an elevated command prompt. > doskey lv = ((echo Disk Volume) ^& (echo -----------) ^& (echo list volume) ^| diskpart ^| findstr "Volume ###" ^| findstr /v /c:"Volume ###") > lv Disk Volume ----------- Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media ...

mataha

Try:

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doskey lv=echo(^& echo list volume $B diskpart

mataha

Docfxit wrote: ↑
12 Oct 2023 15:47
Why doesn't it GOTO FileCopied with RoboCopy like it does with XCopy?

See robocopy exit codes.

mataha

One more forgotten case .. IF [NOT] ERRORLEVEL N .And works surprisingly correct . It should detect if the current errorlevel is bigger or equals to the given number.Does not accept non-numerical strings. (...) (not the fastest way to?) check if a string is a number: (if errorlevel %number% break )...

mataha

Though incomplete, you might want to use $dayadd macro from here like so:

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set /a "date.day=2, date.month=3, date.year=2000"
%$putout% "%date.day%.%date.month%.%date.year%"
%$dayadd% date -2
%$putout% "%date.day%.%date.month%.%date.year%"

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2.3.2000
29.2.2000

mataha

May I recommend ripgrep instead? > rg --pcre2 --text --only-matching --no-filename "<html>" index.html 1:<html> > rg -PoIa "<html>" index.html 1:<html> Although cmd should have no problems accepting angle brackets as long as they're within quotes. The following is equivalent: > rg --pcre2 --text --o...

mataha

Not bulletproof, but should get the job done: setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion (set ^"\n=^ ) & for /f delims^=^ eol^= %%l in ("curl (...)") do ( set "line=%%l" set "line=!line:~1,-1!" for %%n in ("!\n!") do for /f "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%u in ("!line:,=%%~n!") do ( if "%%~u" equ "device_code" ( set "...

mataha

I had a quick look at the available source code, but didn't see anything at the first glance: int eDelete(struct cmdnode *n) { return(LastRetCode = DelWork(n->argptr)); } int DelWork(TCHAR *pszCmdLine) { DRP drpCur = {0}; TCHAR szCurDrv[MAX_PATH + 2]; ULONG OldDCount; STATUS rc; OldDCount = DCount; ...

mataha

Take a look at /im; /mir might be relevant for your use-case as well.

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