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The only strange trick... Really nice trick . Using that, following the basic compression idea of removing repeating sequences, most of the repeating elements inside the code can be move to the arguments for the second cmd instance %1@cmd/q/e/v/c"%~f0" : set .18.3.n .16.7.n .14.11.n %2 c=...

I had the same idea, but if you delete the temporary file, I think the folder timestamp will be re-modified. You are right, it is changed to current time when the file is created and changed again to current time when the file is deleted. While the proposed code does not follow the 1 second increme...

For the folder part, isn't it enough to iterate over the list of folders, in the required order, creating and deleting a temporary file inside each one? This "should" change the folder last modified time. The files can be updated with a simple `copy` command @echo off setlocal enableextens...

2017/08/09 As a first try @setlocal enabledelayedexpansion&set n=#^ &set c=fedcba&set f=&for /l %%a in (1 1 21) do @set f=!f! &set %%a=!f! :s @cls&echo!21!!n!!18!#!3!!n!!16!#!7!!n!!14!#!11!!n!!12!#!5!DISCO^^!!4!!n!!14!#!11!!n!!16!#!7!!n!!18!#!3!!n!!20!!n!&color !c:~-1!&am...

I was bitten by the same problem some time ago.

At that moment I didn't have the needed time to do more tests and I forgot it. Anyway I tested it in XP, 7 32b and 7 64b and in all of them the type and dir commands redirected to nul were much slower than redirected to a file.

COLOR, ASSOC and FTYPE are associated to command extensions but are not documented as dependent on them.

After some tests in W10 64bits ⋅  The variable does not exists at the start ⋅ After having started a cmd instance as administrator (right button on task bar icon), new cmd instances (non admin) executed with Win+R or from start menu show the variable. ⋅ Once the variabl...

Nice utility, thank you for the work and the invitation. I think that in your initial list of messages to you missed this @echo off setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion SendMessage 258 84 SendMessage 258 101 SendMessage 258 115 SendMessage 258 116 set /p "=What is this? " Wher...

Maybe this (http://stackoverflow.com/a/26851883/2861476) could help. As far as I know, the penpen's answer is the only reliable way to ensure you retrieve a valid reference to the current batch file.

Squashman wrote:Can someone test this stuff on Windows 10. Seems like some of them do not work according to a reply to one of my answers on StackOverFlow.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/34206104/1417694

Tested and working on Windows 10.0.10586 (64 bits spanish locale)

I didn't want to say, that i don't know the meaning of a "?" in a for command. I was sure of it. Excuse me if I was not clear enough, I was just trying to indicate why I used it. When writting the code my first try was to execute the inner for command without the wildcard, but I was unabl...

I'm a bit unsure, because of the question mark in "%%~a.%%~b?": When writing the code I was trying to use a dir command and filter the full list using the %currentdate% variable with findstr so the list is only retrieved once (a dir command with several masks execute several searchs, so I...

If your system has short names enabled, then you could try this @echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set "currentdate=11/03/2015" for /f "tokens=1,2 eol=|" %%a in (' dir *.rpt /a-d /-n ^| findstr /c:"%currentdate%" ') do for %%c in ("%%~a.%%~b...

..., though the info header with day of the week is missing (one of good features of robocopy). For a locale independed we can use set "year=" for /f "tokens=1-6 delims=/: " %%a in ('robocopy "|" . /njh') do if not defined year ( set "year=%%a" & set &quo...

Page3 viewtopic.php?p=29762#p29762 Page 4 shows that the output is language dependant Also, for me, with a limited user without rights over the root of the drive, the indicated command fails. Robocopy is not native to XP Yes, I know. Included here just for completion as I saw robocopy used in other...