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Squashman, Thank you for the tip - I have never really understood the FOR /F command, so your suggestion made me pursue it a bit more diligently (thank you). So these are baby steps for me, but when I run it from the command line it performs pretty well FOR /F "tokens=1 delims='" %G IN (errors.txt) ...

Hello DOStips, I am looking for some advice on how to manage wget. We are currently downloading with wget from a list of urls, called urls.txt The log shows downloads that succeeded and also failed I made a working batch to list the fails: findstr /i "ERROR:" c:\urlstrip\test.txt >c:\urlstrip\certif...

thank you so much sir!

Aisha

Hello DOS Tips, We are trying to insert a suffix to the END of EVERY line in a file. so we are trying to add a quote mark to the end of each line with setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (c:\sandbox\original.txt) do set /a N+=1 echo ^"%%a^" ^>c:\sandbox\new.txt c:\sandb...

Squashman - thank you

It works beautifully!!!

Aisha

Hello DOSTips list, We got a request for one that I am really struggling with: We get lots of TXT files with user name and passwords, one account per line and some character (often a colon) separating the username and password, such as jack.thehill@domain.com:jack'spassword jill.thehill@website.com:...

Wow! thank you so much - that is perfect I is true that the full output does not produce a fully functional XML file; I am going to be adding a starting part and an ending part to these files and that portion is already functional, so this wonderful assistance brings the requirement to completion now.

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Hello DOSTips list I have been looking into how to create an XML file from a CSV or TXT (source.csv), and while I can now successfully echo the required syntax to create an XML (output.xml) manually. However, to take it to the next level, we need to be able to read from a CSV or TXT (source.csv) fil...

Hello all, This morning I was asked a rather unusual question, "can you in DOS make a command into an alias that runs the actual command typed in, but also echoes exactly what is typed into a log file along with a date/time-stamp? And it needs to be persistent on start up." My first though...

thank you re deleting the 2.txt file - that was a mistake on my part

the posted "solution" definitely removes empty lines but still preserves the last line as blank, so I am still trying to research this thing and figure out why

will definitely post the solution if i find it too

Aisha

That's almost there, but we still have a blank line at the end.
Is there a way to remove that?

sorry if i was not clear

Hello all, We have the following code for deleting blank lines in a TXT file, but it is failing to remove the blank lines - any advice? findstr /V /R /C:"^$" c:\salad\yarn\buzzard.txt >>c:\salad\yarn\buzzard2.txt del "c:\salad\yarn\buzzard2.txt" rename "c:\salad\yarn\buzzard...

that is perfect - thank you sir

Aisha

Hello DOS Tips We have a list of URLs in a txt file "c:\files\list.txt" We are wanting to only keep URLs that end in any of the filetypes we care about. For instance, only keep URLs that end in PDF, DOC, PPT, htm, or html and dump only these into "c:\files\list_scrubbed.txt" What...