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Thanks, but that didn't work either (it gave the same 'not recognized' message). However, I have managed to find the problem ..... (me!). I had recently connected a backup drive that has the same layout as my main drive, and somehow the shortcut that contains my startup config and autorun script dec...

I have an 'autorun' script that gets called whenever I start a cmd session. In this file I have (among other things) various doskey commands such as: doskey dh=echo(^&dir /a:h /o:g doskey sid=echo(^&wmic useraccount get name,sid doskey dkh=echo(^&doskey /history ^| more doskey fon-=echo(^& echo Font...

Remove one space in your code line 29. if "!valid_disks: %disk%=!"=="!valid_disks!" ( Wow, thank you! Who knew that one space could cause such problems? I removed the space and everything now works correctly. Your code creates variable valid_disks with all valid disknumbers separated by spaces. You...

I am trying to semi-automate a diskpart command, and then have the output of this command formatted to my liking. I am very inexperienced with command line stuff, but I have managed to get some code together using various online examples (rather than me writing it myself). It works and it does exact...

Thank you! I switched to ANSI and it seems to have done the trick. I'm not sure how it got changed (because I've been using that script for a while before it broke). Anyway, now that I can run cd commands again, I can get back to trying to deal with the issue that I was trying to resolve in the firs...

I can change directory fine if I manually type cd into cmd window, but I cannot get any cd command to work from a cmd file. I know that I must be overlooking something basic and glaringly obvious, but I can't figure out what's going on. For example: If I type cd /d "C:\Windows" at the command prompt...

Wow, thank you so much for this! It works like a charm, and I've now got it doing exactly what I want. I would have never been able to figure this out for myself. By the way, I'm not actually using Light Aqua - lol. I'm running a specific console session via a Start Menu shortcut (for which I've man...

Thank you for your reply. I did initially assume that %%# was the variable (given its position within the output) but I couldn't even get it to echo its contents on screen, nevermind do anything else with it. How would I store the contents of %%# into my own named variable? I just want to be able to...

I need to be able to distinguish between two command line windows based on the text color that they use. I found some code online that does this, but I have very limited experience with command line stuff and this particular code example is utterly impenetrable to me. @(Set/P "=The color is currentl...

Just tried your code and made the first line of the code be a TITLE statement. Then put more TITLE statements in the code. The Window Title changed every time. Thank you for letting me know the result of your testing, Squashman. It seems as if these things are never as straight-forward as I imagine...

I've been experimenting setting up different console sessions (configured for different purposes) using basic commands like title, color, prompt etc. via the cmd.exe /K switch. After much trial and error (mainly error) I mostly got things working as I wanted. However there were certain instances whe...

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28 Oct 2018 14:57

As I understand it, they want to enter "closeall" from the keyboard only ...

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This should work: doskey closeall=taskkill /IM "cmd.exe" /f ^>nul 2^>^&1 Thank you SO much, Antonio. This works perfectly, and it's exactly what I wanted. 8) This time I will make a careful note of how it's done, so that I can use it as a template guide for achieving a similar effect for other comm...

You can, however, set "closeall=taskkill /IM "cmd.exe" /f >nul 2>&1" %closeall% Thank you, This now hides the output, but in order to get it to work I have to type %closeall% including the percentage marks. How can I get it to work with just the word closeall on its own? I had a similar issue to th...

How do I get the following command to work from within a batch file? doskey closeall=taskkill /IM "cmd.exe" /f >nul 2>&1 I want the output of taskkill to be suppressed. It works perfectly if typed at the command line, but when the above command is used in a batch file, you still see the output text ...