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Thank you Squashman!

I have a directory R:\Archived Folders\ which contains several thousand sub folders. I have another folder H:\WORK\ which has the many sub folders that have the same name as those in the archive. I would like to create a link to each archive folder in each corresponding sub folder in work. I have tr...

Thanks aGerman this works great!

Since you're already trying to count the files you can also use the loop to delete them. for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /a-d /s ^| findstr /rec:"\\\._[^\\]*"') do (del /f "%%~i" &&set /a "count+=1") Steffen The code is giving me this error and not deleting anything Could Not Find H:\testing\._ran...

Hello everyone! I am trying to delete all files in a certain directory and its sub-directories that has the name "._*" but this is the code I have but it is giving me an error. @echo off setlocal set count=0 set pattern=._* for /f %%i in ('dir /b /a-d %pattern% ^| find /c /v ""') do @call set count=...

Hello everyone, this post has nothing to do with batch coding, but it deals with the forum. When I logged in (using Google chrome) Google alerted me that the login was not secure because the site isnt https:// and gave a link to this page https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617 . Obviously do...

Thanks aGerman, I cant wait to try it!

I have looked around and found multiple ways to replace a letter for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13469939/replacing-characters-in-string ; however, I need to replace the third vowel (aeiou not y) in a word with its accented form (áéíóú). For example Example > examplé Fashion > fashió...

Thanks aGerman this worked for me!

Thanks. Im not sure if this works because I get an error but ill try it on another computer as soon as I can

I am trying to get all the system information from Wmic but im not sure of how to get all the information without typing in lots and lots of wmic commands is there a fast way to get all the wmic information?

Thanks ~Batchcc

Squashman wrote:Certainly not going to hurt you to learn BASH.

I would prefer not to have to convert the many scripts I've collected and coded but if you could tell me about good online resources to learn it I would appreciate it

Would dosbox work as well?

Squashman wrote:Looks like it is possible with wine.
But what are you going to do when your batch file has an external cmd that it runs that is not provided by CMD.EXE?

I'm not sure Ill continue looking for multiple solutions but Thank you Squashman this is very helpful. Any suggestions are apreciated.

Over the past few years I've accumulated a decent amount of batch files however as of this week my place of business is getting rid of all their windows laptops and replacing them with Macbooks. Are there any programs I can use that will allow me to run batch files on the computers. I would also pre...