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03 May 2016 14:27 elias Hello fellow CMD scripters and Batch files programmers, I am following the forums' rules and this post is not a 3rd party service or website advertisement. I am all in favor of knowledge and this post is just a book announcement. Batch files scripting was the first language I...

24 Jun 2016 11:43 NDog Is it possible to strip a folder, file and extension from a string only? eg - \\uncpaththatdoesnot-exist\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\really long path\abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\foo!OS!bar%PROMPT%baz\ 34234 \Technical Experts Exchange ss64 rocks\RD 123\VPN 456\parent folder\myscript.sh r...

25 Jan 2016 21:19 Batcher I am working on a translator made in batch and I keep receiving a missing operator error does anyone have any idea why? Just for background information due to the number of translations verb.bat calls a file based on the first letter of user input here is the code for verb....

03 Oct 2016 23:11 Aacini In my opinion, the first post of this thread should be something similar to this one: Tricksy should wrote: I downloaded the "Bat To Exe Converter" program from this F2KO Software page and started to use its special features for batch files, like "%extd% /mess...

24 Apr 2010 00:46 RG Whoever is interested, In another post on this forum there were some questions about enabling delayed expansion. I decided to start another post and expound on it to give the topic the attention it deserves. There are probably many ways to explain delayed expansion. Here is my e...

26 Jun 2008 22:09 avery_larry I did this: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%a in (f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do ( if not exist %%a:\ ( if 1!tmpsource!==1 ( set tmpsource=%%a: ) else ( if 1!tmpdest!==1 set tmpdest=%%a: ) ) ) so I could set a couple of temporary drive mappings for ...

13 Jan 2011 10:53 allal echo deleting all but the root folder: this first method is taken from https://ss64.com/nt/del.html @echo off color cb REM method #1 pushd %1 del /q *.* for /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b ') do rd /s /q "%%G" in this second method we will lock the root fold...

01 Mar 2008 14:59 budhax Hello, this command: FSUTIL FSINFO DRIVES outputs something like: Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\ 1. How to get drives list, one by line? A:\ C:\ D:\ 2. How to get "Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\" in a variable's value? Thank in advance. ---------------------------- #2 02 Mar 2008 16:36 ...

25 Sep 2008 20:15 JLee First, Great site - used it many times ! I know this is a trivial task to do and probably several ways to accomplish. Below is my first try using shell commands to drop out the trailing spaces on a string. In my particular case, there were trailing spaces on a directory name t...

09 Aug 2010 06:56 SmartGenius [Batch Game] Tetris v 1.3 - by SmartGenius Download: smart.code-makers.net/ [website now 404, requires KBD.exe] The classic tetris game, coded in batch, by me. Try the game, use keys S (Move down) A( Move left) D (Move rigth) R (Rotate) X (exit game). @Echo off @title T...