Summary: Hi all, I am trying to build some sort of API made of batch files. Each of them needs to be able to output one or more parameters. These batch files w...
Summary: hello, In my batch script I need to use a wildcard or a var accepting 8 unknown digits (e.g. 20091006) The digits are represented in the following l...
Summary: Razor: "There are advantages to using delayed expansion; security is not one of them." Sure, that's not one of the reasons for delayed expansion state...
Summary: I was trying to see if there is a method to count the number of files in a zip archive with out extracting it. I had a look at winzip's command line i...
Summary: It's best not to use the variable name "computername" because that is built into Windows, and names your local computer without you having to set it...
Summary: VBScript reads in file1, then scans file2 for the same line. If it encounters it, the duplicate line is written to output. Const file1 = "text1.txt" C...
Summary: I'm trying to write some VBA code to insert a new row (at the third row), then insert an incrementing quarter [1Q 2009, 2Q 2009, etc.] into cell C3, i...
Summary: I want to create vars from txtfile with multiple lines.. txtfile (directories.txt) looks like.. C:\test\00010010 C:\test\00010020 C:\test\00010030 (di...
Summary: About the delimiter, I can use any character that suits your needs. I put them in myself during the extraction. I tried using Æ, with same results, I...
Summary: I have no way to test it at the moment but maybe this may help: <untested> @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "usebackq delims=" %%...
Summary: To expand on M2's answer: variable is just the word 'variable' (but see below). %variable% gets "expanded" i.e. translated to its value and literally ...
Summary: Hi, Im trying to create a simple batch script which i can leave running as a scheduled task and will build an output file containing a list host names...
Summary: Creating an Encoder cause I'm bored. I have a problem. I ask for the users input to a variable called %Sentence% But what I'm struggling to do is to c...
Summary: ok so i was thinking i would use names instead of letters to make it easier to understand from the first box (gabe options) i tried to put if you chos...
Summary: ahh crap the program stopped working and i forgot what i did right... ok nbrane I added to code you indicated into the vba code within excel. it indic...
Summary: I would like to make a batch file that kind find the largest file in a directory and launch it. I have basic batch creation knowledge and I can find t...
Summary: Hi again, I need to append FLIGHT\ at the front of all records that have ( in position 23 in a TXT file. Help for a BAT file would be greatly apprecia...
Summary: Sorry, it didn't work. The code added a SPACE at the end of ROUTE records. Here is a file with a few test cases: Flight\6608 Route\W1 KRT RAMEI A202 ...
Summary: I keep getting "File Not Found" when executing the script. And this PRINT is over multiple rows. I of course made the change to this line of code to r...
Summary: I want to translate a variable and read the output to another variable echo $my_var | tr '0123456789' 'ZZZZZZZZZZ' works as I'd expect, printing the c...
Summary: I am wanting to create a batch file that will open another file every 15 minutes or so. I know of the countdowns, but thats as long as the batch file ...
Summary: I found a batch script to search all drives and delete the autorun.inf file on this forum I want that method but change it up a bit. I would like to S...
Summary: Hey everybody im looking for a vbs script to open a popup message, and when a certain button is clicked it will tell the batch file to do somethin...
Summary: I have been updating an old batch (2005) that uses various applications from sysinternals. My current problem deals with capturing the default mess...
![[higher confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-red_x.gif)
- higher confidence, ![[lower confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-black_x.gif)
- lower confidence
