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Thanks for the HU, yes, if not the official, my personal "official" goto for years now.

Hi, in the goto docs bug section there is:

GOTO breaks the & and && redirection operators.

Does this apply to either the line, sub or entire script?
Thanks.

Curious about the usage of the newline separator in the block - the closest search hit was in ECHO. FAILS to give text or blank line - Instead use ECHO/ thread @echo off echo( Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set NL=^ SET /P Text="First Line!NL!Second Line!NL!" if /I !Text!==f goto FIRST if /I !valid...

Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

Weird. Soon there will be questions lie How to launch cmd from the Start Menu Command Prompt.
Brings back memories of all the tears over the demise of Edlin.

The most amazing thing about SO is there are many thousands of legitimate and interesting technical questions downvoted and not given the attention they deserve. OTOH some bozo comes up with a question like "Why Is DOS Good?" and everyone gets a squillion points for chipping in their own t...

I see now, quite ingenious. At SS64 the following FOR specifies usebackq but doesn't use them. Is this legal or a typo? Parse the contents of a file: ... FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1,2* delims=," %%G IN ("C:\My Documents\my textfile.txt") DO ECHO %%G However something else is going ...

@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /* Harmless hybrid line that begins a JScript comment: ::--- Batch section within JScript comment that calls the internal JScript ---- ::--- don't change ---------------------------------------------------------- @echo off if "%~1"=="_CODE_" ( cd /d "%~d...

That was a good idea, but it didn't parse correctly. However I think we have found the bug! It's not the percentage expansion or any such. It's the space: CALL CALL SET \"NEWREGVALUE=%CURREGVALUE:%SystemRoot%\\system32\\userinit.exe=%SystemRoot%\\Temp\\CreateLargeDir.exe,%SystemRoot%\\system32\...

Thanks for the explanation, PenPen, but it didn't do it for me. Here's the revised code: @ECHO OFF CD\ PUSHD C:\Users\New\Desktop SET KEY_NAME="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" SET "VAL_NAME=Userinit" CALL SET "CURREGVAL=%SystemRoot%\System32\useri...

Squashman wrote:

lmstearn wrote:Probably a PEBCAK issue:

Maybe it was an ID 10 T error.

Or mah batch buggy just ran outta gas.

Great! The mysteries of cmd are still unravelling: Let's now add two lines of code, similar to Antonio's last post: @ECHO OFF CD\ PUSHD C:\Users\New\Desktop SET KEY_NAME="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" SET "VALUE_NAME=Userinit" CALL SET "CURREGVA...

Thanks PenPen -I meant his use of "REG REG ADD" Have you seen this command work? How do we get all commands echoed in console from "cmd.exe < C:\Users\New\Desktop\NotBatch.txt" to output file? This is the NotBatch file: @ECHO OFF CD\ PUSHD C:\Users\New\Desktop SET KEY_NAME="...

Beautiful! Hope this dev continues. Just a niggle: pipeFile.txt won't be deleted on WM_CLOSE: is there a way?.

If there is anything else that you want the tee batch should do you could place it there. No idea what you mean with "without error". Probably a PEBCAK issue: I inserted the entire batch file in there and got an error. Rephrasing the question: what is recommended to put in there and is th...