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ALbino wrote:Since there's only 12 possibilities, it's really not that big of a deal:

It's inelegant, but it works

Yep. As long as the OP is in the same region of the world as you, or uses the same date format.

Hah, good point, hadn't thought of that!

Since there's only 12 possibilities, it's really not that big of a deal: @echo off set FirstDay=01 set Month=%date:~4,2% set Year=%date:~10,4% if %Month%==01 set LastDay=31 & goto foundate if %Month%==02 set LastDay=28 & goto foundate if %Month%==03 set LastDay=31 & goto foundate if %Mon...

Since the first and last day of the month are always the same, why not just hardcode them? You don't need to perform a calculation to know that the first and last day of December are the 1st and 31st.

You don't even need to type "off" if you're going to just have a separate file named off.bat:

You need to make time into a variable by putting %'s around it. However, %Time% is an already defined Windows variable, so you should probably call it something ShutdownTime:



Hope this helps.

Ah, short filenames. That makes sense. Thanks for the feedback and the help guys. Much appreciated!

Just an update: I've switched from using ~'s to using +'s and dir /b *+*.txt works fine, so I'm going to go with that. Though I'm still not sure why ~'s don't work.

I think maybe the tilde (~) is the problem. Just opening a command prompt and using any other character seems to work, but when I use *~* this is what happens: C:\test\textfiles>dir /b *~*.txt Filename~0001.txt Filename-0002__0_mins_2_secs.txt But if I just search for *_* or *-* or *2* it's fine: C:...

change your file mask. Dir /b *~*.txt That's the first thing I tried, but it didn't work. Here's is my line: for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=~" %%G in ('dir /b *~*.txt') do ( Here's the output from a directory with one renamed file and one that has yet to be renamed... Input files: Filename~000...

Hey guys, I have a little loop where I search for all .txt files and pull a number from them before doing a calculation on it and renaming the file. The original filenames look like: Filename~0001.txt I am then pulling 0001, performing a calculation and renaming them to: Filename-0001__0_mins_1_secs...

I'll read up on it, thank you Antonio!

vbscript comes with regular expression. Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set regex = New RegExp With regex .Pattern = "example|this.*that" .IgnoreCase = True .Global = False End With inputFile = WScript.Arguments(0) Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(inputFil...

What sort of "dealing with strings" information are you looking for? Because we have m and m which should cover a good chunk of basic string coding. Thank you, I appreciate the link! Your example works with single phrases, but I'm unsure how to use multiple ones. For example, if I do this...

Good to know, thank you.

Can anybody recommend a good comprehensive walk through of dealing with strings? This is what I've been using, but in their examples they rarely show the eventual result:

http://ss64.com/nt/findstr.html