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by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jul-17, 1:35 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: "call exit" - Exit batch file from call subroutine
Replies: 7
Views: 6223

Re: "call exit" - Exit batch file from call subroutine

I tend to use Goto :eof

Both options are described here: https://ss64.com/nt/call.html
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jul-03, 1:28 pm
Forum: Windows PowerShell
Topic: Data missing when Select-Object in use
Replies: 5
Views: 18421

Re: Data missing when Select-Object in use

Ah I see what you mean.

I think this is one of those annoying cases where the columns have a 'display name' to prettify the output.

To get the real property names you can select/filter on, you need to do:

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Get-DnsClientCache | Format-List -Property * -Force
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jul-03, 10:32 am
Forum: Windows PowerShell
Topic: Data missing when Select-Object in use
Replies: 5
Views: 18421

Re: Data missing when Select-Object in use

This is standard behaviour when you ask PowerShell for more data than will fit across the screen. Solutions: 1) Just make the window wide enough so it will fit. 2) Pipe the output to | format-table -auto (this may still truncate but it will try a bit harder to display everything). 3) Send the output...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jun-27, 4:40 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: doskey /reinstall
Replies: 1
Views: 2296

Re: doskey /reinstall

Looks like that bug has been around for quite a while
a workaround is

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rem Clear the command history
doskey /LISTSIZE=0
doskey /LISTSIZE=50
via https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5661
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jun-26, 1:56 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: variable character replace
Replies: 2
Views: 2074

Re: variable character replace

Try like this @echo off set _string=abc set _char=a call set _out=%%_string:%_char%=%% echo [%_out%] if %_string%==%_out% (echo Char %_char% not present) else (echo Char %_char% present) So in the CALL SET line, the outer %'s have to be doubled because we are using CALL, the _string variable doesn't...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Jun-13, 2:17 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: wmic diskdrive command invalid query
Replies: 2
Views: 2367

Re: wmic diskdrive command invalid query

instead of wmic diskdrive getName ...
try wmic diskdrive get Name ...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Apr-17, 9:25 am
Forum: General Tech News, Notes and Queries
Topic: Muting your mic doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio
Replies: 2
Views: 15356

Muting your mic doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio

Muting your mic reportedly doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio https://thenextweb.com/news/muting-your-mic-doesnt-stop-big-tech-recording-your-audio They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular video conferencing applications as the audio traveled from the app to...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Apr-14, 11:16 am
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: How to differentiate between similar filename extensions?
Replies: 6
Views: 5006

Re: How to differentiate between similar filename extensions?

All of this makes me extremely hesitant to alter the way that Windows handles filenames on an existing system. Turning off 8.3 filename generation does not affect any pre-existing files, it simply means that all new files you generate will have long filenames only. So you can turn it off, copy the ...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Apr-12, 5:12 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: How to differentiate between similar filename extensions?
Replies: 6
Views: 5006

Re: How to differentiate between similar filename extensions?

Confirmed, if you turn off 8.3 generation using:

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FSUTIL.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1
Then DIR *.jpe will not return the jpeg files.

Also 8.3 filename generation is turned off by default in all new (fresh install) Windows installations.
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Apr-09, 11:00 am
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: DELPROF2 no more developed
Replies: 1
Views: 2328

Re: DELPROF2 no more developed

Thanks for the heads up, I have added a PowerShell example to the page as another alternative. I'm assuming that will handle UWP apps.