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neodoughnut

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Registered: 28 Mar 2014

Posts: 4

WMIC Registry Retrieval in FOR LOOP!

Guys,

I have a script which needs to use the following line below, which by itself works correctly and returns the result expected:

wmic /user:.\Administrator /password:Password /NODE:PC01 /namespace:\\root\default class stdregprov call GetStringValue sSubKeyName="SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Authentication\\LogonUI" sValueName="LastLoggedOnUser"')

but when use in a FOR LOOP such as the one below:

FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=" %y in ('wmic /user:.\Administrator /password:Password /NODE:PC01 /namespace:\\root\default class stdregprov call GetStringValue sSubKeyName="SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Authentication\\LogonUI" sValueName="LastLoggedOnUser"') DO echo %y

It returns:

Invalid format.
Hint: <paramlist> = <param> [, <paramlist>].

Any ideas guys?

Cheers

Steve

DigitalSnow

Member

From: United States

Registered: 27 Dec 2012

Posts: 24

Re: WMIC Registry Retrieval in FOR LOOP!

Surround the entire command with double quotation marks and remove the internal double quotation marks since there are no spaces you have to worry about.  I am not sure of the exact cause without looking into it further, but off hand it appears that when for parses the command it is separating it and causing the command not to get all the parameters at once.

for /f "delims=" %A in ('"wmic /namespace:\\root\default class stdregprov call GetStringValue sSubKeyName=SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Authentication\\LogonUI sValueName=LastLoggedOnUser"') do @echo %A