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You have to have the "Choice" command available from the command prompt for the code to work.

Try...

XCOPY C:\*.* E:\*.* /v /s /e /c /g /h /k /r /y /z

but good luck with sharing violation messages...

What if we save the file with a new name and THEN replace a string? I would cheat and program in Edlin, which has been part of DOS since the beginning. Make a copy of your original file with a copy command and work from it. copy Members.txt Names.txt Now say we want to find "Harry" in our ...

Double check complete path to executable for typos.

Oh geez. The Submit button is so smart. As soon as I hit it the answer pops up. Data file with two occurrences of DDAN Directory of Y:\DDAN\Desktop Backups\2010-02-27 26/08/2009 09:53 AM 4,707,780 101_0159.AVI 26/08/2009 09:54 AM 6,794,386 102_0213.AVI 2 File(s) 11,502,166 bytes Directory of Y:\SJOH...

aGerman,

You got the username to filename perfectly, but does it capture multiple directories with the same user name in one file?

"If the user name is repeated it needs to append to the same file."

What do we have to tweak to get it to do that.

dang.... up at the top...



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You guys make my head hurt. The closest I could come to what you want is to figure out the shortest user name (4 characters) and use that in a revised set command. Instead of if defined dest set dest=!dest:~-1! I used if defined dest set dest=!dest:~16,4! ...which counts from the left 16 characters ...

What is the best way to get the length of a variable for later manipulation?

In the editor, the following line wraps. Disregard the remark above about it wrapping choice /n /t:-,99 /c:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890- "-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" looks like... choice /n /t:-,99 /c:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890- "-XXX...

If you have the CHOICE.com program on your machine, here is one bit of trickery to get *'s that we used. It isn't very secure really - more for fun than anything else. Copy it to notepad and give it a run. A bit long, but it doesn't echo your entire password to the screen. A-Z (except "x")...