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The change fixed the issue for me too. I used defined instead.

Thanks for the fun script, but version 20 is not working as well as 19. I have not looked into why yet, but version 20 does not work correctly for me. This is how it outputs. Windows 7 Enterprise x64 http://i.imgur.com/TDQ28Vh.png Also Note that neither version 19 or 20 work when cmd is in unicode /...

Fascinating post! Thanks for sharing the explanation and implementation. The call errorlevel trick is definitely something I will remember. and I can see the %&&% being handy.

Of course Wikipedia has a good outline of a quine. m) See the following quote: However quines cannot receive any form of input, including reading a file. Which means the following shell script is not a quine. So unfortunately, according to the general rules, your script is not a quine because it tak...

I think fairly self evident, especially since EQU is itself a command extension. Well I try not, to take any of the readers' knowledge for granted. Since there are many people who seem to read these forums, but who may not know all the intricacies of CMD BATCH. My statement was trying to make sure ...

This behavior seems more like an error prevention mechanism of Extensions ' if command that is only visible with variable expansion on command execution. Here is my reasoning. Variable behavioral refresher... Variable expansion using percent signs %var% happens when the entire command line is read. ...

You might want to use the %UserProfile% environment variable for simplicity. Also, I do not know of any way to set shortcut icons using just batch. Here is a script of mine that I use to create Shortcuts using batch and WScript. It could probably use some updates, but it works well enough for me :::...

If I understand what you are wanting to do correctly. This should work. 1. Loop through each command line parameter. 2. If it exists in the folder, prompt the user for a choice 3. Else move the file to the folder. @echo off set corbeille=c:\corbeille cd %corbeille% || del %corbeille% >nul REM YOU CA...

This will be a very useful technique. Thank you jeb. Im gonna keep this in my notes.

Oh, and the reason the equals sign does not work at the beginning, is due to this limitation which is listed in the set /? help documentation. SET command will not allow an equal sign to be part of the name of a variable. When the first character is set as an equals sign it thinks that we are tryin...

Oh, and the reason the equals sign does not work at the beginning, is due to this limitation which is listed in the set /? help documentation. SET command will not allow an equal sign to be part of the name of a variable. When the first character is set as an equals sign it thinks that we are tryin...

I have found a solution for the = equals and space trimming issue. However it requires placing a non-display character into the batch script. I do not know if it works on any version of Windows. Only tested on Windows 7. <nul set /p =".[0x08]%Var%" Place any non-space non-issue character f...

Glad that you got ldifde to work.

No need to use 3rd party tools when there are native solutions. That is my focus when using batch anyway.

DosTips has a very helpful page in reference to String Manipulation here: http://www.dostips.com/DtTipsStringManipulation.php

billrich wrote:What is OU?

See the bottom of my post above. They are Organizational Units for Active Directory in Windows Server.

Organizational Units (OU): Technet Article About Organizational Units