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Well, it was worth a shot. I'll just code it the long way basically using what Aacini posted.

I'm just looking for ideas on date math but skipping weekends (and holidays maybe). I've got a scanning (paper to pdf) process that's partly done by people, and partly done by computers. I'm going to track the progress of individual batches via a simple log file concept. Well anyway -- I have a moni...

SO --

I'm not clear on when you want to copy the other file . . ?

IF hello.txt exists, then delete it and do nothing else? Or delete it and then copy the other file?


IF hello.txt does not exist, then copy the other file?

Do you mean c:\any_dir*\run OR do you mean c:\*\run? if you meant c:\any_dir*\run\ABCD then: set dest=c:\newfolder md "%dest%" >nul 2>nul rem Start in the parent folder cd /d "c:\" for /d %%a in (any_dir*) do move "%%a\run\ABCD" "%dest%\%%a_ABCD" >nul 2>nul if...

t:\program\renamedfiles must exist.
probably want to use *.kvi since it's an extension
path probably should be in quotes:

move "%tmpdir%\*.kvi" "t:\program\renamedfiles"

*untested*

Try:

findstr /i /c:"%buildPatch%"

Also, you probably want "delims=" instead of "tokens=* delmis= ". On the very rare case that a line *starts* with a delimiter, it will be stripped (which can be very useful when needed).

You should never assume the location that a script file is run from. If it's important you should always explicitly specify the current directory.

always.

And then, if it's important (like using del *.exe), you should double check that you're in the correct directory.

untested:

This part:
!filenames:~73,0!
will return 0 characters skipping the first 72 characters. I believe you want:
!filenames:~73!

Which just skips the first 72 characters and returns everything else.

both blat.exe and sendemail.exe are very simple to use. google them to download. Post your command and error messages if you still have problems.

Well -- I shouldn't post what I don't know about, I guess. I don't know anything about xxcopy.

It looks like the devcon output has 3 lines, so the for loop goes through 3 times. The first line doesn't have () so it skips the "do" portion. The next 2 lines both have (), so the "set" command is run twice -- first it sets the variable to com5, and then it sets it to s. The va...

Can't something like this be done:

echo.y|xxcopy . . .

or

xxcopy ... < echo.y

or

echo.y>y.txt
xxcopy ... <y.txt


or

echo.y>y.txt
type y.txt|xxcopy ...


I thought some variation of those options were typically able to do the "press any key" idea . . .

but not everybody has a python at the office.

So true, so true.

If you have a definite set of programs that you care about: @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set word=c:\program files\microsoft office\office12\winword.exe set excel=c:\program files . . . \excel.exe set notepad=c:\windows\notepad.exe rem you can add others here. set program=%1 if not defi...

That looks promising. Thanks.