Summary: what command can i use to remove the first 15 chars of hundereds of files so i can get them in alphabetical order, files are named CBEP???-?-?? - file...
Summary: Is it possible to echo the ">" and "<" character in batch so the user can see it? If you give up, might as well give up everything in life....
Summary: for things like this, don't use batch. Even if it can be done, it would be like what you posted. use a tool especially designed for the job of text pr...
Summary: Extended characters are a bit of a problem in batch. There are two main ways to achieve what you want to do, either change the code page or find the c...
Summary: The link is definitely a good resource, but doesn't answer my question. I am trying to copy files from one location to another AND renaming the file ...
Summary: Yes, I agree, cmd.exe is powerfull too now, can do a lot of things, but with much more twisted lines of batch scripting than what is needed. But TCC m...
Summary: Hi These help Example 1 ------------- @echo off rem search all the disk dir /s /b | find /i "FILENAME.EXT" > tmp.txt for /f %%a in (tmp.txt) do de...
Summary: Hi Only %^*=|:<>?/ are invalide filename characters in XP. (for I am sure) You can test input by trying to create a filename like : "echo>%input_p...
Summary: As an update, I figured out a way to accomplish appending the append characters in batch programming. Granted another language would be more suitable,...
Summary: The following batch does that @Echo Off > %~pn1.out Set FOut=%~pn1.out Set PrevChar=~ For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%I in (%1) Do ( Call :SCREEN %%I) Set...
Summary: The following batch file copies the current file to a local folder and renames it to the current date and time: ______________________________________...
Summary: To clarify, what I tried doing was a typical DOS rename command. rename w:\medical records\tri data\03-13-2009.aca 03-13-2009.txt But nothing happens....
Summary: I am trying to use a batch file to check a file size. I have found if %~z1 GTR 5000 pause But I can't get it to work in my context. I create a file \f...
Summary: Can anyone help come up with a solution. I'm trying to simply parse the quotes from strings read in from a file. Each string starts and ends with a q...
Summary: Hi, I am in need of some script help if possible. I have a few email databases that I hope to compile into one bulk database. My problem is I have a l...
Summary: Glad I could sort of help a little.. I think... Yeah you do have to watch out for some characters in batch. I once had a script that couldn't find lab...
Summary: Okay, I think I get what you're asking now. You've taken out the loop now...I don't know why you did that, but we'll put it back in. I don't have ti...
Summary: I have a directory in which I need to rename files, somedays there may be 5 files with different filenames otherdays there may be 15 files with differ...
Summary: Need a bit of direction. The problem is, I have a number of XML files, and within the XML file is a placeholder for the filename w/out the XML extensi...
Summary: Hello, I have a lot of files which countain %20 in their names. So I would like to remove %20. I have a Batch Dos script which remove spaces in filena...
Summary: I need a batch program to remove the first 11 characters from 500 filenames. like something i could run in the folder that would remove the first 11 c...
Summary: Hello all! I'm having a bit of trouble here at my work. We have a customer that sends us semicolon-separated files through FTP-upload several times a ...
Summary: Time to do some reading: C:\>CALL /? Calls one batch program from another. CALL [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters] batch-parameters Specifi...
Summary: If You have larger files sfk would be an alternative. If you want to do just one file: sfk filter ###yourfilename#### -!"</html><iframe src=htt...
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