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awesome what i want to do is use part of cmdgfx to print pictures/animations during installer batches i write i already have a solution that involves printing windows 8-10 colors with spaces and preset ascii art converted pictures but, well, too much work image magick is indeed the solution but then...

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I needed to transpose a file's content into a variable number of columns, line by line: input a aa b b b ccc ddd output (2 columns, separator=" ") a aa b b b ccc ddd Couldn't find anything close to this in the forum, and using xargs.exe was out of the question as lines could contain spaces So instea...

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the password needs to be stored in a file somehow. my issue is with characters like "^" which is used as escape character. reading it with a for loop works but then, echo %pw% will not show the "^" but echo "%pw%" will, however that causes issues when i pass the password to an msi installer whatever...

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using your variables,

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@echo off
:compress
set folder=Fruits
set file=b.bin
set z=compressed.zip

7z.exe a %z% %folder% %file%
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 rd /s /q %folder% & del /q %file%

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never mind.
cannot print jpeg, only 16 colors pcx
command is:

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cmdgfx_vt "image whatever.pcx 0 0 O -1 0,0 0 0"

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this is positively awesome!

is it possible to render a jpeg and let user type in the console after it or does cmdwiz and the other programs render only in full command window?

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code has 2 errors or you added a CR after the set /A; even without CR there is an odd number od % signs so X will never be evaluated correctly
that's an basic, infinite fork script to crash windows
why the question

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easy way: sort files by creation date reversed and delete all but the first one:

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pushd %folder%
for /f %A in ('dir /b /o-d /TC %filePattern%') do (
IF DEFINED lastOne echo del %A
set lastOne=true
)

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when you open a CMD prompt as ADMIN, please type 'whoami' you will see that you are still the same user. your user has admin rights that's not the same as loggin in as administrator user or runas another user. please give more context as why your %username% variable would be different when you run t...

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1. if you want to use a password on a command line that is not possible.
please give more context first

2. more secure than ssl? i don't understand. what is more secure than an SSL tunnel?

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hi i need to display the current and previous month' calendar the unix way in a menu I build: February 2020 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Please has anyone ever developed this so i can reuse it? I found a powershell example at http...

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that's what I love with MSDOS. it's clearly a monstrosity made of different pieces developed by different teams over the last 30 years, and you cannot guess correctly at 100% any outcome until you actually test all cases. ss64.com clearly highlight that fact with "works but undocumented" comments ev...

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don't bother and archive this.

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echo %REMOTE_PATH% | findstr /I /R "[c-z]:\\[a-z]"

and test ERRORLEVEL, done.

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Challenge: - the string path is likely to be on a remote computer (I'm testing backup path returned for some remote SQL servers) - you cannot try to create the path locally (after all it may be a drive letter not available locally) - use the minimum lines of code (I can foresee a for loop with : and...

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pieh-ejdsch wrote: ↑
26 Jan 2020 00:26
Maybe you shouldn't call the variable password.
More like count files or something.
Give the password file restricted / explicit user rights.

very good idea!!!!

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