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Depending on the formatting of the your date/time stamps you could use the SORT command.

Maybe it's just me but what's the point in having such a program? If i do not know how a command works i could always go [command] /? and i'll get all the information i need about the command... Where would the learning effect be if a program corrects my syntax? Maybe my syntax is advanced and expli...

AiroNG My time is format h:mm:ss.hs yours has a comma h:mm:ss,hs so add a comma to the delimeters in this for loop in the delay routine: for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=:.," %%a in ("%time1%") do ( Then it should work. I have only tested on Win7. So I am stupid then Ok, i will test it...

SpinSpell.bat ["Message goes here"] [spincount] [spindelay] *snip* :wait set timen=%time: =% if /i %timen% geq %time2% goto :end goto :wait *snip* shouldn't that be: set timen=%time:~0,8% ? [/code] Because otherwise i get a Syntax error message: D:\set timen=15:15:02,59 "59" kan...

something along the lines of this?
(my xcopy knowledge is more than a bit rusty)


/S = copies all folders and subfolder
/H = copies files with the attributes "hidden" and "system"

<evilmode> how 'bout: googling a bit and reading ? Honestly... it took me longer to write this post than to google for the 7z commandline help...</evilmode> Or you could just go: D:\>7z.exe -h 7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name...

You can use ">nul" to hide the whole ping-output.



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Alternatively you could try this: (wget is required though): :update SET new=%tmp%\%name%\update.bat SET old=update.bat rem get file echo: echo: connecting to server and aquiring file... wget.exe -q -O %tmp%\%name%%ext% %url%%name%%ext% 2>nul rem looks for filesize and puts them into variables FOR %...

I was wrong about: that is the point at which the system shows: "( was unexpected at this time" The reason is that "!board[%a%+%b%]!" doesn't contain a value. It's been a while since i dove into Batch... my sincere apologies about that! The error can be fixed by using parenthesis...

Again i sadly can't deliver a solution but i found the erroneous code: if !board[%a%+%b%]! neq 0 ( that is the point at which the system shows: " ( was unexpected at this time" The reason is that "!board[%a%+%b%]!" doesn't contain a value. To find out where things go awry use &qu...

I don't know if it'll fix your current problem, but this part is wrong: choice /c wasdx /n /m "" if %errorlevel%==1 rem UP if %errorlevel%==2 rem LEFT if %errorlevel%==3 goto movedown if %errorlevel%==4 rem RIGHT it should be like this: choice /c wasdx /n /m "" if errorlevel 5 go...

Maybe this will help: try this code and you can see that a few characters wont work. @echo off & cls & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & Color 07 bg.exe sprite 5 2 a \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\n bg.exe sprite 6 2 a \11\12\13\14\15\16\17\18\19\20\21\22\23\24\25\26\27\28\29\30\31\32\33\34\35\36\...

You can find the post from carlos where he points out how to use bg.exe here.

Hope it helps.

I may have a solution:

WMIC DATAFILE WHERE (name="%file%") get lastmodified | find "."

however, if i run your script with the parenthesis i get another error:

Keine Instanzen verfügbar.

it should translate to something like "No instances available".

on topic:
I think the idea of carlsomo back on the first page of this thread might be a good idea.
He said "it uses much cpu" but I'm sure there are some nice tricks
to reduce the cpu usage (along the lines of this).


off topic:

Mod Edit: I removed the off topic posts.