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I felt embarrassed asking the original question in this thread but I haven't hit a keyboard in a long time and just could not see the easy way (which I knew would exist) to the answer. I'm just getting back into it all now. Thanks again.

That worked well. Thanks for that.

I am so out of touch that I can't even think where to start plus I was never great at this. I will have a fully qualified file name (drive, path & filename) passed to my batch file as %1. The batch file and its parms will be started from a shortcut. I need to split the string into the path and f...

First of all, why the freaking pickle are you writing out the full path of a file that's already in your system32 folder?!?!?!?!?! And second of all, I don't even have bootlog/pcinfo.bat on my PC! So I don't even see your point because any newbie can't test it! Also, why "/realtime"? It u...

The START command can execute commands external to the current window. It can also name files which will be processed by a file extension association. You can execute them and wait for them to finish or simply launch them and forget them. Look at START /? I used the following in a shortcut with the ...

first of all the help command dosent show examples nor explain the commands good enough ( for me atleast ) I am recently new at this again after a long period doing other and I am finding difficulty with syntax and capability of the commands and the changes that have happened since DOS. One change ...

Or you can just use "command /?". It's a good source of info but it falls down in that it is incomplete. Example: FINDSTR /? does not indicate that you can use Errorlevel to check for completion. A wiki could start with the basic Command /? and then could be adjusted by the community for ...

use FIND to find the line(s) in question, push the output to a file, read the file into a variable, search the variable for the target. find /i "wanted string" fileA > tempfile.txt set /p var1 = < tempfile.txt the above may fall over if there is more than one line in the original file that...

have you looked at IF /?

In this case it will work because your target is at a fixed location but I like Dave Benham's solution better. It is more robust in that if the target is not where you thought it was then it still works.

You could use the ATTRIB command to set all attributes to +A (or anything else that is convenient) then set the two files to something else (+R) and then do a delete based on not R

You appear to be trying to exclude files by using the - (not). The - is to negate the attribute(s). to see all files but no folders in a folder dir /a:-d or this works too dir /a-d shows no directories and all text files beginning with s. dir /a-d s*.txt I can't see how to do an exclude based on fil...

FINDSTR does set the ERRORLEVEL ERRORLEVEL = 0 if string is found and 1 if string is not found. One of the things I find frustrating is there seems to be no fully accurate command reference. Is there any such thing I looked for info on Findstr setting Errorlevel but could not find it. It seems obvi...

You can use the same command syntax in the DIR command to see a list of files that qualify for your criteria.
You could also turn off the /Q for debugging. You didn't say what your problem was.

Here is a useful command refernce http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=2632 The Findstr does not appear to set errorlevel. You could try using the /m to only output the filename if the string exists within the file. You could put that filename into another file and read back the...