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See How-to: Run a PowerShell script
https://ss64.com/ps/syntax-run.html

You may have to adjust the filenames to match what you have.

PowerShell can be run from a .PS1 script or directly at the command line, just adjust the filenames to match what you have.

If you go into the registry HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\ Create a new string value called: AutoRun set it to: TITLE %cd% That will set the title of each new CMD window (wherever it is opened from) to the current directory when opened, just be aware that if you change directory the titl...

This is assuming the current directory is the start point for the search.

If you just have a small number of files, you can do what Simon_Weel suggests and hard code the filenames: dir newdoc2023.docx /s /b >result.txt dir document_34.docx /s /b >>result.txt etc If you have a lot of files then you will want to automate reading the filenames in a loop: @echo off for /f %%G...

Thanks for this npocmaka , Windows subsystems for linux is a bit of a surprise, a few years ago it looked like they were just going to drop that.

Hi Jeb, welcome to the forum :D You raise a good point, its probably better to not echo the original input string at all, thats just asking for trouble. I think it is always going to be necessary to filter out a couple of the more obvious poison characters and then use the function to remove everyth...

Heres a function that can be fed a string and will strip out all characters not in a pre-defined list. Intended to be used with any user-supplied data, i.e. SET /P @ECHO OFF Setlocal :: Name: Michael Wright/Simon Sheppard :: Date: 2023-05-05 :: Desc: sanitize function :: Sanitize an input string omi...

Using extra characters is not about nesting, but about having the option to use more than 26 TOKENS, so for example you might want to parse some data out of a CSV file with more than 26 columns. Each FOR command instantiates a new instance in memory which inherits all the variables of the parent pro...