Re: "Frequently Asked Questions about CMD.EXE Command Line Scripts"
Kelly
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.fi> wrote in message
news:ts200404290...@majakka.uwasa.fi...
> Dear Readers,
>
> Before posting a CMD.EXE command line script related question please be
> aware of the information and solutions material already available, such
> as
>
> 94268 Mar 31 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
> tscmd.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
>
> In case of grave difficulties in getting this file from Garbo archives
> see
> Sites with permission to mirror Garbo archives
> http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbinfo/garbmirr.html
>
> The contents of the FAQ-like script tips collection is given below.
> For more command line script or near information sources please see
>
> http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/http2.html#cmdscript
>
> This file TSCMDIDX.TXT lists the contents of
>
> 1CMDFAQ.TXT NT/2000/XP CMD.EXE Script Tricks
> in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
> Alternatively available with the version number as
> ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tscmd19.zip
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1} How get today's date elements into environment variables?
> 2} On Windows XP how do you stop the script files from closing?
> 3} How can I customize the Command Prompt Window with script commands?
> 4} How can I test is it on MSDOS/Win3..9x/Me or NT/2000/XP?
> 5} How do I get a fully qualified path name of my script?
> 6} How does one get yesterday's date?
> 7} How can I test if two files agree in size and datetime stamp?
> 8} How do I find all the files made at of after YYYYMMDD HHMM?
> 9} How can I suppress script error messages altogether?
> 10} How can I change the environment variable values within a FOR loop?
> 11} How do I retain my original code page in these scripts?
> 12} How can I rename all my .JPG files sequentially in a folder?
> 13} How do I get the current day of the week?
> 14} Help! My old batch files won't work since there is no choice.
> 15} Is it possible to echo without linefeed like the Unix echo -n?
> 16} How can I get the time without having to press enter?
> 17} How can I avoid the potential "ECHO is off." in echoing %myvar%
> 18} How does one build re-usable script function modules?
> 19} How can one build a delay / sleep / wait procedure for a script?
> 20} Is is possible to right-justify numbers or words in a script?
> 21} Do you have pointers to additional script material and tips?
> 22} How do I capture the current folder name into a variable?
> 23} How do I get the n:th, the first and the last line of a text file?
> 24} How do I get the m:th item on the n:th line of a text file?
> 25} How can I quote with e.g. "> " an entire message?
> 26} How do I get the length of a string into a variable?
> 27} How can I remove all the blank lines from a text file?
> 28} How to convert a file written in IBM PC characters into LATIN1?
> 29} How do I drop the first two characters of a string, and so on?
> 30} Can one calculate the difference between two times in a script?
> 31} How many days ago was 31.12.2003? What date it was a 100 days ago?
> 32} How can I convert a decimal number to binary, octal, hexadecimal?
> 33} How can I convert a binary, octal, hexadecimal into a decimal?
> 34} How can I remove the quote characters from a line?
> 35} How can I substitute the second field on each line of my file?
> 36} I start a program from my script and it hogs my command window.
> 37} How can I insert a line in the middle of a file with a script?
> 38} How can I set and test the errorlevel within a script file?
> 39} Is there a subroutine to convert a variable into uppercase?
> 40} How do I get the number of arguments given to a script?
> 41} How can I create a zero-byte file? How do I test for it?
> 42} What is the subroutine for testing a filename for wildcards?
> 43} Is there a way of counting the number of files in a folder?
> 44} How do I get the first 68 columns from a text file?
> 45} How can I find out how many days old a file is?
> 46} Is a program available in the default folder or at path?
> 47} Is it possible to echo the redirection symbol in a script?
> 48} Why do some comment lines cause errors? What can I do about it?
> 49} I need to reverse a text file. How do I do that fairly quickly?
> 50} How do I get the position of a substring in a string?
> 51} How can I echo lines in different colors in NT scripts?
> 52} How can I enter a password into a variable without echoing it?
> 53} How can I test if a disk device is ready or not?
> 54} How can I get the type of a disk device?
> 55} How to get the creation, last modified and last access of a file?
> 56} How to find and move more recent files from one folder to another?
> 57} How do I get a list of all my empty folders on c:\ ?
> 58} How do I best combine two quoted arguments into one quoted string?
> 59} How do I find if a folder exists? How about visible files in it?
> 60} How do I delete all but most recent 20 files in a folder?
> 61} How can one devise a command line calculator?
> 62} How can I compare within a script if two files are identical?
> 63} How to perform a command on each line of file as an argument?
> 64} How to count the number of lines in a file, empty lines inclusive?
> 65} How do I add text in front and after each line in a text file?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> All the best, Timo
>
> --
> Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
> Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
> mailto:t...@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/> ; FIN-65101, Finland
> Timo's FAQ materials at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html
Timo Salmi
> "Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.fi> wrote in message
> news:ts200404290...@majakka.uwasa.fi...
> > 94268 Mar 31 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
> > tscmd.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
(megasnip)
> Go away!
Why don't you lay off your stupid FAQ postings and referrals?
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/faqoff.html
Of proper quoting
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
Matthias Tacke
>Go away!
>
Why? And from where?
In the newsgroups I read (not all from the header) Timo's regular faq is
welcome.
Your complaints with unneccessary full quotes are bothering me more.
If you like I'll send you some links on netiquette :-)
X'Post + F'up2 ambn
--
Greetings
Matthias________________________________________
For help on nt commands enter in a cmd window:
W2K>HH windows.chm::ntcmds.htm XP>HH ntcmds.chm
David Candy
Lets take kelly. She doesn't spam. As a result I reckon she gets thousands of referals by other users to her site (certainly a few hundred times a day I read a post saying go to K's site).
Over the years I've watched your spam. I've never seen anyone refer anyone else to your site.
I've certainly not ever been.
Perhaps you should only post to usenet and leave this private product support NNTP server off your list.
Of course your stupid crossposting (across usenet and private servers) means I have to click through dialogs to even send this. We all know finland. NAZI collabarator and when the going got tough a tratorous ally. No ticker, no morals.
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.Fi> wrote in message news:c6qieq$m...@poiju.uwasa.fi...
Marco Maier Said
> Over the years I've watched your spam.
And you have not used the killfile.Are you a masochist?
--
Marco
Marco Maier Said
> Go away!
If you want to be in charge of a newsgroup,get one and moderate it
--
Marco
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1louo12k1ti2x$.mms@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
Go away!
You bother me even more with your pathetic snipping. How are people supposed to follow what this is about. But your post and Jerold's and Jim's have been shitting me for years. AND IT IS SPAM designed to drive traffic to you site.
Lets take kelly. She doesn't spam. As a result I reckon she gets thousands of referals by other users to her site (certainly a few hundred times a day I read a post saying go to K's site).
Over the years I've watched your spam. I've never seen anyone refer anyone else to your site.
I've certainly not ever been.
Perhaps you should only post to usenet and leave this private product support NNTP server off your list.
Of course your stupid crossposting (across usenet and private servers) means I have to click through dialogs to even send this. We all know finland. NAZI collabarator and when the going got tough a tratorous ally. No ticker, no morals.
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.fi> wrote in message
news:ts200404290...@majakka.uwasa.fi...
> Dear Readers,
>
> Before posting a CMD.EXE command line script related question please be
> aware of the information and solutions material already available, such
> as
>
> 94268 Mar 31 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
> tscmd.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
>
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1louo12k1ti2x$.mms@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
Marco Maier Said
> Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
Flush
--
Marco
David Candy
Flush
--
Marco
Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
--
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1096cm2a5oeqb$.mms@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
Marco Maier Said
> `Huh?
Hu Hu Hu HU
--
Marco
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1lai5kl7...@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
Timo Salmi
David Candy <da...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/crackpot.html
> finland. NAZI collabarator and when the going got tough a tratorous =
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/abusive.html#godwin
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.Fi> wrote in message news:c6rm8k$k...@poiju.uwasa.fi...
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Mark V" <notv...@nul.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns94DAAC7472...@207.46.248.16...
> In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin Timo Salmi wrote:
>
> > Well, well. We seem to have a real live one at our hands.
>
> Quite a piece of work indeed.
>
>
> >
> > David Candy <da...@mvps.org> wrote:
> >> Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
> >
> > http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/crackpot.html
> >
> >> finland. NAZI collabarator and when the going got tough a
> >> tratorous =
> >
> > http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/abusive.html#godwin
> >
> > All the best, Timo
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1lai5kl7...@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
> David Candy wrote in message <news:uh13XqfL...@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl> :
>
> > `Huh?
>
> Hu Hu Hu HU
>
> --
> Marco
`Huh?
Flush
--
Marco
Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
--
> All the best, Timo
>
> --
> Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
> Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
> mailto:t...@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/> ; FIN-65101, Finland
> Timo's FAQ materials at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message news:1096cm2a5oeqb$.mms@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
> David Candy wrote in message <news:O#rlmSeL...@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl> :
>
> > Don't snip f*ckhead. I fixed you attempts to mislead the record.
>
> Flush
>
> --
> Marco
> >
>
jim
> We all know finland. NAZI collabarator and when the going got tough a tratorous ally.
Are you Jew?
Mark V
> As none of you actually post here at msnews, why are you spamming
> it. Just f*ck off out of our groups.
What? This group is peered all over USENET. What's "our groups"
supposed to mean?
David Candy
But I love the wermacht and wish I was prussian. I know I could take moscow. My dream now is Australia will spill out through indonesia, then malaysia, thailand, burma, taiwan, japan, then into russia and moscow here we come.
Napolean couldn't, the turks couldn't in WW1 (they all froze), hitler couldn't. But it's Australia manifest destiny to rule moscow.
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"jim" <j...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:0ffkc.168102$rM4.6...@news4.tin.it...
Kelly
public, not from billboards. These are newsgroups and not a place for
commercials.
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Timo Salmi" <t...@UWasa.Fi> wrote in message
news:c6qieq$m...@poiju.uwasa.fi...
Marco Maier Said
> These are newsgroups and not a place for
> commercials.
> Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
lol
--
Marco
Si Ballenger
wrote:
>IMO, recognition and respect is earned from hands on, working with the
>public, not from billboards. These are newsgroups and not a place for
>commercials.
>
>--
>All the Best,
>Kelly
>
>Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
>2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>
>Troubleshooting Windows XP
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>
>Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
So what is the above MS sock puppet stuff? ;-)
Al Dunbar
"David Candy" <da...@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uPE2eJkL...@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Racially I'm partially jewish, though my family mostly angelised in early
1700s. I'm High Anglician, British race (after 300 years I think I am),
Australian nationality. Though people with names like levy kept marryng in
to at least 1850. Refugee to london where family changed name to street in
jewish quarter. My family also used to own the suburbs that is now sydney's
jewish quarter. A lot of the streets were I live are named after my family.
But I love the wermacht and wish I was prussian. I know I could take moscow.
My dream now is Australia will spill out through indonesia, then malaysia,
thailand, burma, taiwan, japan, then into russia and moscow here we come.
Napolean couldn't, the turks couldn't in WW1 (they all froze), hitler
couldn't. But it's Australia manifest destiny to rule moscow.
LOL! Good luck trying to turn Germany into an island.
/Al
Kelly
may be something to bring into light for discussion. However, my signature
comes with a reply to a post, never without.
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Marco Maier Said" <marcomaie...@Myahoo.it> wrote in message
news:12ejxzcp...@MRC.MIR.SID.75...
Kelly
you belong to or frequent. As per your question, again this is common
for/within the groups I work.
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP WindowsŽ XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Si Ballenger" <shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net> wrote in message
news:40926701....@news.comporium.net...
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 03:06:15 -0500, "Kelly" <ke...@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>IMO, recognition and respect is earned from hands on, working with the
>>public, not from billboards. These are newsgroups and not a place for
>>commercials.
>>
>>--
>>All the Best,
>>Kelly
>>
>>Microsoft-MVP WindowsŽ XP
David Candy
--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
"Kelly" <ke...@mvps.org> wrote in message news:OycKrsNM...@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> It is very common for posters to have/use signatures. Just as the groups
> you belong to or frequent. As per your question, again this is common
> for/within the groups I work.
>
> --
> All the Best,
> Kelly
>
> Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
> 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>
> Troubleshooting Windows XP
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>
> Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
>
>
> "Si Ballenger" <shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net> wrote in message
> news:40926701....@news.comporium.net...
> > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 03:06:15 -0500, "Kelly" <ke...@mvps.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>IMO, recognition and respect is earned from hands on, working with the
> >>public, not from billboards. These are newsgroups and not a place for
> >>commercials.
> >>
> >>--
> >>All the Best,
> >>Kelly
> >>
> >>Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
Kelly
break them with these folks. Oh well....
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"David Candy" <da...@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:u1NNY4NM...@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
> So, are you insinuating that a signature is the same as spam? If so, that
> may be something to bring into light for discussion. However, my
signature
> comes with a reply to a post, never without.
I think Marco was pointing out the apparent contradiction of your posting of
"These are newsgroups and not a place for commercials" being followed by a
couple of commercials. Obviously you use the same signature all the time,
and I have no problem with it. But it is still funny, just like saying: "you
should NEVER say NEVER".
/Al
Kelly
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" <alan-no-...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uj%23BaTyM...@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Timo Salmi
Before posting a CMD.EXE command line script related question please be
aware of the information and solutions material already available, such
as
94268 Mar 31 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
tscmd.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
In case of grave difficulties in getting this file from Garbo archives
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/http2.html#cmdscript
All the best, Timo
Matthias Tacke
>"Kelly" <ke...@mvps.org> wrote
>> so, that may be something to bring into light for discussion.
>> However, my signature comes with a reply to a post, never without.
>
>I think Marco was pointing out the apparent contradiction of your
>posting of "These are newsgroups and not a place for commercials"
>being followed by a couple of commercials. Obviously you use the same
>signature all the time, and I have no problem with it. But it is still
>funny, just like saying: "you should NEVER say NEVER".
>
>/Al
I'm with you in that Al.
AFAIK netiquette says to limit a signature to 4 lines. Kelly's signature
is more like a vcard of letter size :-)
And if a message can hide behind an attached vcard IMO that's funny too.
X'Post ambn, com-wnm, com-wpm, mpwca
--
Greetings
Matthias________________________________________
For help on nt commands enter in a cmd window:
W2K>HH windows.chm::ntcmds.htm XP>HH ntcmds.chm
Plato
>
> So, are you insinuating that a signature is the same as spam? If so, that
Technically, if one makes an honest effort to answer questions in a NG
and has a .sig that points to your 100% commercial site it's not spam.
In other words, if I ran a hosting service and answered questions here
and had my .sig direct people to my site it wouldn't be spam. A .sig is
just a .sig. Many folks have have them that show where they
work, for example.
Kelly
--
All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
news:40969315$0$70963$45be...@newscene.com...