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Your guess is right. The repeated double quotes break it. The password is a letter password, with no special characters though. Thank you all.

How can I fix code snippet A? Thanks! Code snippet A This does not work: SET pwd=mypassword SET files_path=C:\Users\User\Downloads\_bat testing\*.pdf SET qpdf_path=C:\Program Files\qpdf 11.1.1\bin\qpdf.exe for %%G in ("%files_path%") do (CALL :subroutine "%qpdf_path%" %pwd% "%%G") :subroutine %1 --d...

A text file named 'source.txt' containing the file names to be searched for:

a.txt
b.txt
c.txt

I'd like to use 'DIR /B /S' command by referring to 'source.txt' to search for those files and copy those files to a new folder called 'destination'. Could anyone show me how to do that, please? Thank you!

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32>at 15:47 /interactive "echo hi &pause" Warning: Due to security enhancements, this task will run at the time expected but not interactively. Use schtasks.exe utility...

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Note that the R in "* R *" is the replace of the " s " before the numbers. you can change it to any thing else. The starts * is to match the pattern of the file name, it till the command to rename the files with the same strings and when it comes to the first string after the fi...

@ECHO ON SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('DIR /S /B') DO ( IF NOT %%~xA==.bat ( SET "old=%%A" SET "new=%%A" SET new=!new:s=S! SET new=!new:SFile=sFile! MOVE "!old!" "!new!" ) ) PAUSE>NUL I wonder how I can 1. replace all th...

Suppose I've extracted the wanted registry keys: @ECHO OFF REG QUERY HKLM /s /v WakeEnabled The output: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0009 WakeEnabled REG_DWORD 0x0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11C...

Just found why the message was shown. ATTRIB -H %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini ECHO.>%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini ATTRIB +H %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini After realising the file is h...

ECHO.>%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini I would like to use batch scripts to modify the slideshow.ini file. Yet it returns: Access is denied. It's okay, though, to read the file with notepad.exe %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini

Yes, it works.

Because that's the way FOR /F works Try: ... FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=:" %%A IN ('FINDSTR /N "^" "5.txt"') DO ( ... ECHO %%B - !str! ... Regards aGerman EDIT: To avoid faults with leading colons: ... FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN ('FINDSTR /N "^" "5....

5.txt

a

b
c

6.txt

a

d
e

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REM Win7 64-bit REM real path REG EXPORT "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" REM Hex path REG EXPORT "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" On my machine, both registry keys conta...

Comparing !word1! with !word2!, I am wondering why SET "word1=" IF NOT DEFINED word1 SET "word1=%%A" Only SET the variable = the first line (after skipping the precedent line)? I omit SET "word2=" IF NOT DEFINED word 2 SET "word2=%%B" and it takes the last li...