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- 12 Jun 2024 21:14
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: plus sign in file name
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27878
Re: plus sign in file name
Not a known issue per se, but a known and expected behavior. This is the very last sentence of copy /? - To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format). Like all other special characters, you'll have to wrap the fi...
- 12 Jun 2024 06:35
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: plus sign in file name
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27878
Re: plus sign in file name
Not a known issue per se, but a known and expected behavior. This is the very last sentence of copy /? - To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format). Like all other special characters, you'll have to wrap the fil...
- 19 May 2024 07:50
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: What is this batch file doing (to make color text)?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11522
Re: What is this batch file doing (to make color text)?
That used to be the only way to do colored text before VT100 sequences got added to Windows 10 and later.
- 03 May 2024 07:11
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Mask password with Asterisk
- Replies: 16
- Views: 46194
Re: Mask password with Asterisk
No, because the entire code hinges on xcopy's /W flag, which waits for a single character to be pressed before continuing. It doesn't wait around to pick up the rest of the input.
- 02 Apr 2024 08:10
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: netsh Interface name store as variable
- Replies: 10
- Views: 29991
Re: netsh Interface name store as variable
Pipe a second findstr for "Ethernet"
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@echo off
for /f "tokens=3*" %%a in ('netsh interface show interface ^| findstr "Connected" ^| findstr "Ethernet"') do (
set "AdapterName=%%b"
)
echo %AdapterName%
- 01 Apr 2024 16:31
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: what is the difference between 1> and 2>
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8041
Re: what is the difference between 1> and 2>
2 is for errors (STDERR), 1 is for everything else (STDOUT)
It doesn't matter if you put it at the front or the back of the command you're using it on, although there are a few edge cases where putting it at the front is better.
It doesn't matter if you put it at the front or the back of the command you're using it on, although there are a few edge cases where putting it at the front is better.
- 22 Mar 2024 22:54
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: if/elseif dont work like expected...Sorry, this time in English
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7311
Re: if/elseif dont work like expected...Sorry, this time in English
If that's the entire code, then you're missing the final )
You've also written cdm /k instead of cmd /k (although I don't see why you'd need that at all since it only spawns a child terminal process), but that throws a different error.
You've also written cdm /k instead of cmd /k (although I don't see why you'd need that at all since it only spawns a child terminal process), but that throws a different error.
- 30 Jan 2024 13:41
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: SYSTEM account console 254 characters limit
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17355
Re: SYSTEM account console 254 characters limit
If you think you need the SYSTEM account for something, you're doing something wrong. If you need more than 254 characters for a single command, you're also doing something wrong. You haven't described your use case, so I'll just assume the standard reasons for shoving a bunch of code all at once at...
- 17 Jan 2024 13:26
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Batch Parser
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8912
Re: Batch Parser
There's excellent documentation at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409 ... se-scripts but I'm not aware of anything interactive.
- 07 Jan 2024 11:34
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Is it worth learning Powershell?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 48597
Re: Is it worth learning Powershell?
I'm talking specifically about the language that uses the cscript and wscript interpreters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript It's a scripting language for ActiveX that's modeled on Visual Basic and that I've used multiple times as standalone replacements for VBA macros that I've written. Wikip...
- 18 Nov 2023 19:25
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: The timeout command blocks the W key from closing CMD window
- Replies: 3
- Views: 23040
Re: The timeout command blocks the W key from closing CMD window
How could this be happening It's obviously a bug in the code. Nobody here is capable of elaborating further because Windows is closed source. more importantly: how to fix / workaround this issue? By pressing one of the 100+ other keys on the keyboard. This is such a non-issue that I'm surprised you...
- 09 Nov 2023 15:32
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Batch File To Create Folder With Current Date
- Replies: 14
- Views: 50385
Re: Batch File To Create Folder With Current Date
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set "YourLocation=%~dp0"
- 05 Nov 2023 22:22
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Problems working a script
- Replies: 6
- Views: 26471
Re: Problems working a script
That's just my answer, but with no explanations and posted here so they're going to see it even if they don't want to. The entire point of me posting it to pastebin was that this is very clearly a homework question and they asked for help and not a solution so they should have the option of not imme...
- 05 Nov 2023 18:21
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Problems working a script
- Replies: 6
- Views: 26471
Re: Problems working a script
https://pastebin.com/Lh3gEWhL if you want answers rather than general guidance
- 05 Nov 2023 18:11
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Problems working a script
- Replies: 6
- Views: 26471
Re: Problems working a script
The fact that you're saying that you haven't gotten it suggests to me that you have some way of validating the solution, and so this feels a bit like homework. Depending on your teacher's standards and whether or not you just didn't format the code when you pasted it in here, I could argue that ever...