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#61 15 Feb 2014 11:50

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good point Carlos, I have now changed it to

A macro to disable the FORMAT command (n.b. Doskey is not really a reliable method for disabling commands, it is easily bypassed by running the full command path/ extension or creating a different macro.)
DOSKEY Format=Echo I've disabled the Format command.

I'm sure the semicolon used to act as a comment/REM character in Doskey but it looks like that stopped working at some point.

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#62 18 Feb 2014 17:18

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npocmaka wrote:

http://ss64.com/nt/netsh.html - may be it will be good nvspbind  (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/nvspbind) to be added - as it is the only command line tool that I know that can  modify network bindings.
EDIT:
http://ss64.com/nt/for_l.html  - like the plain for (start,step,end) can separated by any standard delimiter. Here's a more detailed article of cmd parses the numbers  - http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3758

These are now updated along with the pages for IF comparison operators. The relevant pages now have a brief mention about Hex and Octal numbers along with a link to the DosTips thread.

Thanks again npocmaka

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#63 06 Apr 2014 11:14

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Still not tired to post here... :-D

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-internal.html - as the BREAK , KEYS  and DPATH (still) have not their own pages I think will be good to add full list of the cmd internal commands :

ASSOC
   BREAK
   CALL     
   CD/CHDIR         
   CLS     
   COLOR   
   COPY     
   DATE     
   DEL     
   DIR
   DPATH
   ECHO     
   ENDLOCAL
   ERASE   
   EXIT     
   FOR     
   FTYPE   
   GOTO     
   IF
   KEYS
   MD/MKDIR         
   MKLINK   (vista and above)
   MOVE     
   PATH     
   PAUSE   
   POPD   
   PROMPT   
   PUSHD   
   REM     
   REN/RENAME       
   RD/RMDIR         
   SET     
   SETLOCAL
   SHIFT   
   START   
   TIME     
   TITLE   
   TYPE     
   VER     
   VERIFY   
   VOL

Probably KEYS and DPATH deserves thier own pages as they do
changes in environment variables (I'll try to prepare texts for both) .Also %DPATH% and %KEYS% could be included in dynamic variables - http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html .





As the TASKLIST is not available in Home/Basic/Budget/Whatever-Depending-On-Version editions of Windows (this also could be important to be known if you hit the issue few times) , QPROCESS remains a viable alternative for listing process so  links in RELATED sections  and mentioning limitations will not harm.

The same case with TASKKILL and TSKILL - TSKILL is only available process killer in a fresh installed home-edition of windows (part of terminal services commands - for XP I think they are available after SP2 but I'm not sure).



TELNET requires additional activation on the newer versions of windows:

Windows server 2008/2013 :
ServerManagercmd  -install telnet-client

Windows 7/Vista:
pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"


Bellow are listed versions compatibility issues that need only a mentions on their pages (according to me :-) )

These commands might not be included in the %PATH% (their directories are also listed) and their call might fail:

PRINTBRM - C:\Windows\System32\spool\tools ;   Windows Server 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 34237.aspx W7,w2003,20012 needs activation
PRNCNFG - c:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US
PRNMNGR - c:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US


MEM - is also available only in 32b systems

SHARE - the only info that I've found is this - http://support.microsoft.com/KB/108601

TSSHUTDN - is available only on XP and 2003 (part of terminal services commands) including their 64b versions.

FREEDISK -   Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 2003 (Not available for XP , Vista , 7 and 8 - server versions only)

NETDOM - Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 - servers only

NTBACKUP - Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 - server versions only.


And a lot of command from the toolkits  have not mentions where they can be aquired from , so here is compilation with the info for the packages (in the bottom are links to the microsoft documentation pages where I get info from):

MBSAcli - Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download … px?id=7558
WINDIFF - Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … laylang=en

MV - Windows services for Unix toolkit
SU - NT toolkit / Windows services for Unix toolkit
TOUCH - Windows services for Unix toolkit

DSACLs -  Active Directory /?
DSAdd - Active Directory
DSGet - Active Directory
DSQuery - Active Directory
DSMod - Active Directory
DSMove - Active Directory
DSRM - Active Directory
CSVDE - Active Directory

DELPROF - windows 2003  toolkit / nt toolkit / 2000 toolkit
SUBINACL - windows 2003  toolkit / nt toolkit
IFMEMBER - windows 2003  toolkit / nt toolkit / 2k toolkit
MOVEUSER - windows 2003 resource toolkit
CLEARMEM - windows 2003 toolkit
COMPRESS - windows 2003  toolkit
NOW - windows 2003 resource toolkit
NTRIGHTS - windows 2003 resource toolkit
PERMS  - windows 2003 resource toolkit
QGREP - windows 2003 resource toolkit
SLEEP - windows 2003  toolkit / nt toolkit

MUNGE - NT toolkit / 2000 toolkit
DIRUSE - 2K Resource Kit / XP Support Tools
ADDUSERS  - NT + windows 2000 toolkit
ASSOCIAT - NT toolkit / 2000 toolkit
BROWSTAT - NT toolkit / 2000 toolkit
CLUSTER - NT toolkit
CON2PRT - NT toolkit
CSCcmd - NT toolkit
DNSSTAT - NT  toolkit
GLOBAL - NT  toolkit
LOCAL - NT toolkit
LOGEVENT - NT toolkit
LOGTIME - NT toolkit
NETSVC - NT toolkit
RMTSHARE - nt toolkit
SCLIST - nt toolkit
SHOWGRPS - NT toolkit
SHOWMBRS - NT toolkit
SOON - NT toolkit
TLIST - NT toolkit
USRSTAT - NT toolkit
WINMSDP - NT toolkit
XCACLS - NT toolkit
KILL - NT toolkit
SHORTCUT - Haven't found info in NT toolkit help pages

MAPISEND - Back Office/Exchange Resource kit - where this can be downloaded?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … s.10).aspx - active directory
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/158388 - NT toolkit info
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 51139.aspx - nt commands
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927229 - 2000 toolkit
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 71131.aspx -active directory
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 72497.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 25766.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 71846.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 70340.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 70454.aspx
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

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#64 07 Apr 2014 00:28

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Thanks npocmaka, I'll look at making these updates over the next few days

One thing though
NTBACKUP - Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 - server versions only.
I think those are restore-only tools, wbadmin and PowerShell have replaced NTBACKUP.

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#65 08 Apr 2014 08:16

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Simon Sheppard wrote:

Thanks npocmaka, I'll look at making these updates over the next few days

One thing though
NTBACKUP - Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 - server versions only.
I think those are restore-only tools, wbadmin and PowerShell have replaced NTBACKUP.

Yes, you are right - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 10%29.aspx .It's not easy to track all the commands :-)

Here are the texts for KEYS , DPATH and TSKILL in case you decide to add them:


DPATH

Sets a %DPATH% environment variable that used to allow opening of files (with extensions not listed in %PATHEXT%)
as if they were in the current directory (similar to PATH) in MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. The feature no longer works on the windows systems.



DPATH [[drive:]path[;...][;%DPATH%]
DPATH ;
DPATH /?

Type DPATH ; to clear %DPATH% variable.

Type DPATH without parameters to display the current path.
Including %DPATH% in the new path setting causes the old path to be
appended to the new setting.

By default %DPATH% variable is empty.

Bugs

In earlier versions of Windows APPEND command used to be used as a %DPATH% editor and DPATH /? still prints the help of
APPEND command (APPEND command is still available in 32 bit versions of windows despite it does not work).

DPATH is internal command.

"Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH." ~ Ueshiba Morihei


Related
PATH

KEYS
Enables or disables command line editing on DOS system

KEYS [ ON | OFF]

This is present for Compatibility with DOS systems.
Type KEYS without parameters to display the current state of KEYS.
Despite its help message claims that the command has no effects it sets %KEYS% environment variable when it's called with ON/OFF switches  to ON/OFF value respectively.
Thought  KEYS does not rely on %KEYS% variable to preserve its state.

KEYS is internal command.

"The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network." ~ Kevin Mitnick

TSKILL

Ends a process.

TSKILL processid | processname [ /SERVER:servername] [ /ID:sessionid | /A] [ /V]

  processid           Process ID for the process to be terminated.
  processname         Process name to be terminated (Usually the name of the executable with trimmed ".exe" suffix).
  /SERVER:servername  Server containing processID (default is current).
                         /ID or /A must be specified when using processname
                         and /SERVER
  /ID:sessionid       End process running under the specified session (default is current)..
  /A                  End process running under ALL sessions.
  /V                  Display information about actions being performed.
 

processname is limited to 18 symbols.

TSKILL is part of terminal services commands . Unlike TASKKILL it does not require administration privileges to run , and is also available in home editions of Windows. 

EXAMPLES

C:\>notepad.exe

C:\>tskill notepad /v
 End Process (4688)

C:\>rem "tskill notepad.exe" will give error - Cannot find process:notepad.exe

 
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." ~ Bertrand Russell
 
Related

TASKKILL
KILL 
PsKill - Kill processes by name or process ID
WMIC PROCESS where name='evil.exe' delete / WMIC PROCESS  where processid='666' delete
Powershell: Stop-Process - Kill a process
Equivalent bash command (Linux): kill - Kill a process

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

I think I've now completed updating the site for all the above. The principles I've been following are:

- If a command was only provided in an old toolkit that is no longer available, then its removed.

- If a command was provided in an old toolkit but there is now a different newer/better option for current OS's, I've updated all the links to the new version and removed the old one.

- If a command is still available in an old toolkit and there is no replacement, then I've kept it with a better description of which toolkit it can be found in.

- If a command exists in current and old resource kits, then I have only documented the current ones, otherwise you have commands which have been supplied via different toolkits/support packs for NT4 and 2000 and XP and Vista etc, which just gets horribly complicated.
So for example if a command is listed as being in the Windows 2003 adminpack and on Windows 2008, it may also be in the old Windows 95/NT4/2000 toolkits but I don't mention those because I think the vast majority of people will only be interested in the most recent version.

The Links page now has some lists of all the commands in the different toolkits.

I'm starting to think we could do with a spreadsheet cross-referencing all the commands ever released with all the OS's and service packs and toolkits where they have been updated, but thats a job for another day.


Added commands
runas, inuse, TSKILL, tlist, diskuse

Deprecated commands
Keys, DPath
I can't think of a good enough reason to include these yet.

Deleted NT 4 commands
cluster,DNSSTAT,local,mv,global,kill,su,LOGEVENT,NETSVC,SCLIST,SHOWGRPS,SHOWMBRS
Most of these urls will now redirect to other pages.

Thanks again npocmaka.


Simon

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Thank you too for the hard work.
I believe the pages are more informative now.
Probably will come with new suggestions soon , but should require far less work...

I'm starting to think we could do with a spreadsheet cross-referencing all the commands ever released with all the OS's and service packs and toolkits where they have been updated, but thats a job for another day.

I'll be glad to help here ,if I can .

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#68 18 May 2014 21:38

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I thought that this the list will be smaller but...



FC - /LB switch has default buffer size of 100 lines. In Vista and above it's included in FC help message also
in latest technet help pages but is not mentioned in XP help (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 10%29.aspx)



LABEL - info on SS64 is a little bit outdated :

Windows displays the volume label and serial number (if it has one) as part of the directory listing.

An NTFS volume label can be up to 32 characters in length, including spaces. NTFS volume labels retain and display the case that was used when the label was created.

If you do not specify a value for the Label parameter, the label command displays output in the following format:

Volume in drive C: xxxxxxxxxxx
Volume Serial Number is xxxx-xxxx
Volume label (32 characters, ENTER for none)?

You can type a new volume label or press ENTER to keep the current label. If you press ENTER and the volume currently has a label, the label command prompts you with the following message:

Delete current volume label (Y/N)?

Press Y to delete the label, or press N to keep the label.



Limitations on volume label names

A volume label can contain as many as 32 characters for NTFS volumes and as many as 11 characters for FAT volumes and can include spaces but no tabs.

FAT volume labels cannot contain any of the following characters:

* ? / \ | . , ; : + = [ ] < > "

This limitation does not apply to NTFS volumes.

For FAT volumes, volume labels are stored as uppercase regardless of whether they contain lowercase letters. NTFS volume labels retain and display the case used when the label was created.

from:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 90925.aspx



PROMPT  - (Here I'll list some things   )

1.By default %PROMPT% variable is not defined (then prompt displays it's default value $P$G)

2.If %PROMPT% variable is defined or pre-set via registry deleting it will set again prompt to its default value.

3.PROMPT command is highly dependable on %PROMPT% variable and editing the variable will lead to the same results (e.g. SET "PROMPT=$P$G")

4. Everything after a dollar sign sequence that is not in the supported list ( $A $B $C $D $E $F $G $H $L $M $N $P $Q $S $T $V $_  $$ $+ ) will be ignored

5. Limitations for prompt length are 400 symbols in Windows XP / Vista and 511 in Widows 7 and above . Hitting the limit also produces
different results in XP/Vista and the fresher versions: 1.On XP/Vista it produces error message 2.On 7 and above it just only takes the first 511 symbols.On XP limitation can be worked-around by setting longer
than 400 symbols value directly to PROMPT variable (For these I need clarification by more people so I'll start a separate thread)
Special $-sequneces will be taken as a single symbol.

6. A little bit of jeb's magic - getting the the prompt displayed value: for /F "tokens=1 delims= " %a in ('"prompt $L & echo on & for %b in (1) do rem"') do @echo %a
(will not work for $+ and $_ where a temp file will be needed) (http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=1696)


CALL - (this is my fault in fact as I didn't explained well the case with CALL REM in my previous post)
CALL REM works but redirection operators, conditional execution operators , brackets will be not remarked which can be unexpected in some cases

GOTO This also can be very misleading so I thing it's worth to be included in GOTO documentation.
GOTO  breaks bracket context including in FOR and IF commands:

@echo off
if A equ A (
	GOTO :EXAMPLE_LABEL
	:EXAMPLE_LABEL
    rem	
) else (
	echo You haven't expected to see  this ,have you?
) 

(Which can be useful to break out of FOR command or exiting a 'deep' if)

GOTO also breaks & , &&  and redirection operators.
The case with negative conditional execution is a different kind of beer.It executes the commands on the same line but switches a bat script to command prompt mode:

@echo off

goto :not_existing_label || echo on this line you can execute all commands you want except GOTO ,SHIFT ,SETLOCAL , ENDLOCAL , CALL :SUBROUTINE
echo this will be never displayed
goto :skipper && echo this will be never displayed
:skipper

Here this 'functionality' has been discovered :1.   and    2
;


IF - it is possible to use pipe through IF(/ELSE) command ,but here the command prompt is a little bit buggy
(http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5539 ):

1.When something is piped to the command executed after IF the space after  the first word  after if be eaten
2.IF syntax checked and parsed before and after pipe so in both cases you need a valid IF syntax

For no native English speaker It's easier to be explained with examples:

echo pipe | if  X lss lss Y echo %^cmdcmdline%
echo pipe| if errorlevel b neq b echo %^cmdcmdline%

this will produce

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" if errorlevelb neq b echo %cmdcmdline%"
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" if XLSS lss Y echo %cmdcmdline%"

If command preserves the redirection so it can be passed to the executed command :

echo pipe | if  X lss lss Y more

In case of desperate need to redirection through IF following workarounds can be used:

1.Double expansion :

@echo off
set "myLine=if 1 lss 2 more"
echo pipe | ( %%myLine%%)

2. A dummy IF that will always produces a positive expression followed by an IF with the real contidion:

echo pipe| if defined dummy neq dummy if A lss B more

3. with additional call of cmd.exe:

echo pipe | cmd /c "if A lss B more"

START

doc page wrote:

Non-executable files may be invoked through their file association just by typing the name of the file as a command. (e.g. WORD.DOC would launch the application associated with the .DOC file extension). See ASSOC and FTYPE.

According to my tests start first checks the "OpenWith" info located in :

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.ext\OpenWithList" (can be edited with right click "open with" on a certain file)

And then ASSOC/FTYPE info located in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT


DPATH/APPEND - http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=1876  / http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=1875 I'd rather think the info here worth to be included in doc
pages as the official Windows documentation is wrong: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 31163.aspx  Amd SS64 can be the only one place on the net with accurate info smile

ECHO - Sndrec32 is replaced in windows 7 - http://superuser.com/questions/539646/w … -windows-7

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#69 19 May 2014 01:39

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npocmaka: dpath is not the same that append. Look this: http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?pid=7696#p7696

This is the output in a windows 8 64 bit:

C:\>dpath /?
Allows programs to open data files in specified directories as if they were
in the current directory.

APPEND [[drive:]path[;...]] [/X[:ON | :OFF]] [/PATH:ON | /PATH:OFF] [/E]
APPEND ;

  [drive:]path Specifies a drive and directory to append.
  /X:ON        Applies appended directories to file searches and
               application execution.
  /X:OFF       Applies appended directories only to requests to open files.
               /X:OFF is the default setting.
  /PATH:ON     Applies the appended directories to file requests that already
               specify a path.  /PATH:ON is the default setting.
  /PATH:OFF    Turns off the effect of /PATH:ON.
  /E           Stores a copy of the appended directory list in an environment
               variable named APPEND.  /E may be used only the first time
               you use APPEND after starting up your system.

Type APPEND ; to clear the appended directory list.
Type APPEND without parameters to display the appended directory list.

C:\>append
'append' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>dpath
DPATH=(null)

C:\>

As you look the help for dpath says append, but the append command is not present.

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Thanks again npocmaka!

I have made some changes to the pages for: If, Goto, Call, label, prompt and FC, I am trying not to include too much detail on edge case bugs because I want to keep the pages understandable by complete beginners. I do appreciate all the extra detail but some things are best kept to the forum.

dpath might be useful for digging around all the files in the PATH, so I may add a note about it on the path page: added here: http://ss64.com/nt/path.html#dpath

C:\batch\> dpath %path%
C:\batch\> type win.ini

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

I don't know if this is the correct 'place' to post a speed test.

The next command:

For /F "delims=" %%a in ('Type foo.txt') Do echo;%%a

is more slower than:

For /F "delims=" %%a in (foo.txt) Do echo;%%a

This is because for loop waits for type command, once readed all lines by 'Type' is readed by 'For /F', while without 'Type' command (second example) only opens the file and reads directly.

Even 'Type' command is more slower than 'For /F' Command!

@Echo off
echo;Speed tests &pause
cls
echo;with type:
echo; S= %time%
For /L %%a in (1,1,100) Do Type null.txt
echo; E= %time%
pause
echo;
echo;with for
echo; S= %time%
For /L %%a in (1,1,100) Do (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (null.txt) Do echo;%%a
)
echo; E= %time%
pause

Content of null.txt: {0 byte file}

Result:
Running on Win 7 64bit @ 2.10GHz 4 Cores

with type:
 S= 23:26:20.31
 E= 23:26:20.34
Presione una tecla para continuar . . .

with for
 S= 23:26:21.14
 E= 23:26:21.15
Presione una tecla para continuar . . .

The point is more faster use the second example. This maybe useful for show DelayedExpansion variables on external files, instead read and store into variables (this metod slowdowns realtime execution)

---------

Stuff: opening exe files

If any filename is invoked from cmd or batch file, if this contains a .exe header, it's opened as exe file.


.::{Honguito98}::.

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Thanks Honguito98, I've added a couple of notes to the for /f command page and the START page.

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The page of schtasks says:

12:00:00

and it should be:

12:00

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carlos wrote:

The page of schtasks says:

12:00:00

and it should be:

12:00

fixed now, thanks

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

this time I'll be faster

MODE

there's an alternative syntax for setting the cmd window size -> MODE X,Y  (seen here http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5809)
The size limits are MAX:1365,1365  MIN:15,1 . (btw. why CHCP is not in the full list of commands? also diskcopy and diskcomp - they are available also in  'modern' windows x64 machines .These are survived .com commands -chcp.com;diskcomp.com;diskcopy.com;format.com;mode.com;more.com;tree.com - tree has no help page... and the difference between com and exe   - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/arc … 2730.aspx)


CALL - cannot execute an expression enclosed in brackets - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2441 … h-brackets

syntax-cmd - full-screen does not work from Vista and above

QPROCESS - it can show only first 12 letters from process name. Didn't found a way to show more


built in environment variables - not all are listed (not sure if all of them worth to be included) - here are some of the missing - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr … 90954.aspx - plus ProgramW6432 which is available only on 64 machines and NumaHighestNodeNumber  from windows 7 and above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access ; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library … s.85).aspx ). also %=::%  which is a pretty mysterious.

EDIT:

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-wildcards.html - COMPACT also works with wildcards.

EDIT 2: .com files are not .com files on x64 - http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5823

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Thanks npocmaka, I've now updated the pages: MODE, CALL, CMD, QPROCESS, Environment Variables and Wildcards.

I'm not sure about the size limits for MODE, on Windows 7, I can get a smaller window than 15,1 and it doesn't complain until the size is a bit larger than 229000,743000 although the memory used by conhost.exe does go through the roof with large sizes. Thats one way to burn 1 GB of RAM!

I'll have a think about where the stuff on differences between the COM and EXE could go.

CHCP, diskcopy and diskcomp although still supported do get very little use, I cant even remember the last time I saw a floppy disc. So having those pages still up and findable through search is a compromise between listing pages that most people won't be interested in and just removing them entirely.

There are a few other hidden SS64 pages that aren't linked from anywhere but exist because sometimes people type in the url looking for things that are not commands e.g. 'neq'

Simon

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

yes,

I've tested mode on windows 7 and it behaves different than windows 8... hmm

And noticed that ProgramW6432 (only for x64 systems) is still missing --> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library … s.85).aspx

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

I.FOR /F


This time my trigger to write in this thread is not completely accurate information on FOR /F page (http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html) so I'm starting with this.

1.tokens=3* will cause the 3rd and all subsequent items on each line to be processed - this will create the third token and will assign all subsequent items to the 4th token (may be this is what you meant ,but is not clear enough) - it has no difference if you using comma before the asterisk or not.

2.      usebackq     Use the alternate quoting style:                       
                   - Use double quotes for long file names in "filenameset".
                   - Use single quotes for 'Text string to process'
                   - Use back quotes for `command to process`

When there are no quotes with usebackq option it again works with file name set.


3.Again for tokens (this is where info is not entirely correct) - "It is actually possible to assign up to 61 tokens by using the ASCII codes from this range:"

You can access only the tokens between 1 and 31.Every number in tokens options out of this range will be ignored - if the biggest number is defined in range (e.g 1-52 - the whole range will be ignored).Almost every character from x0 to x255 can be used as token.Some of them cannot be used as first tokens.Here's a good overview over the topic by DBenham:

the special characters that cannot be used or need workarounds as tokens:

Dec  Hex   Character   Define     Access
  0  0x00  <nul>         No       No
 09  0x09  <tab>         No       %%^<tab>  or  "%%<tab>"
 10  0x0A  <LF>          No       %%^<CR><LF><CR><LF>  or  %%^<LF><LF>
 11  0x0B  <VT>          No       %%<VT>
 12  0x0C  <FF>          No       %%<FF>
 13  0x0D  <CR>          No       No
 32  0x20  <space>       No       %%^<space>  or  "%%<space>"
 34  0x22  "             %%^"     %%"  or  %%^"
 36  0x24  $             %%$      %%$ works, but %%~$ does not
 37  0x25  %             %%%%     %%~%%
 38  0x26  &             %%^&     %%^&  or  "%%&"
 41  0x29  )             %%^)     %%^)  or  "%%)"
 44  0x2C  ,             No       %%^,  or  "%%,"
 59  0x3B  ;             No       %%^;  or  "%%;"
 60  0x3C  <             %%^<     %%^<  or  "%%<"
 61  0x3D  =             No       %%^=  or  "%%="
 62  0x3E  >             %%^>     %%^>  or  "%%>"
 94  0x5E  ^             %%^^     %%^^  or  "%%^"
124  0x7C  |             %%^|     %%^|  or  "%%|"
126  0x7E  ~             %%~      %%~~ (%%~ may crash CMD.EXE if at end of line)
255  0xFF  <NB space>    No       No



Other important things about FOR /F

1~.It will not process empty lines
2~.the prio of the options is usebackq>skip>eol>delims>tokens

two things that I'm not sure are important - 
1~.If there are few option of the same type only the last one is taken ( If there are few option of the same type only the last one is taken)
2~.Repeated numbers of tokens produce empty tokens


II. FOR /L - cannot be broken with GOTO if big numbers or empty body are used used:
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2707
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5778

any kind of standard delimiters can be used between start;step;end

III.Wildcars - IF EXIST also accepts wildcards

IV.CHCP - the list of encodings is not full. Most interesting seems to be 65001:

http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic. … 355#p32355
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5358

I also created a small jscript.net/.bat  hybrid (ported from here  ) that lists all installed encodings .Here's the output on my machine:

CodePage identifier and name     BrDisp   BrSave   MNDisp   MNSave   1-Byte   ReadOnly 
37     IBM037                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
437    IBM437                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
500    IBM500                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
708    ASMO-708                  True     True     False    False    True     True     
720    DOS-720                   True     True     False    False    True     True     
737    ibm737                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
775    ibm775                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
850    ibm850                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
852    ibm852                    True     True     False    False    True     True     
855    IBM855                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
857    ibm857                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
858    IBM00858                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
860    IBM860                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
861    ibm861                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
862    DOS-862                   True     True     False    False    True     True     
863    IBM863                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
864    IBM864                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
865    IBM865                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
866    cp866                     True     True     False    False    True     True     
869    ibm869                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
870    IBM870                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
874    windows-874               True     True     True     True     True     True     
875    cp875                     False    False    False    False    True     True     
932    shift_jis                 True     True     True     True     False    True     
936    gb2312                    True     True     True     True     False    True     
949    ks_c_5601-1987            True     True     True     True     False    True     
950    big5                      True     True     True     True     False    True     
1026   IBM1026                   False    False    False    False    True     True     
1047   IBM01047                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1140   IBM01140                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1141   IBM01141                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1142   IBM01142                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1143   IBM01143                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1144   IBM01144                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1145   IBM01145                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1146   IBM01146                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1147   IBM01147                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1148   IBM01148                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1149   IBM01149                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
1200   utf-16                    False    True     False    False    False    True     
1201   utf-16BE                  False    False    False    False    False    True     
1250   windows-1250              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1251   windows-1251              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1252   Windows-1252              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1253   windows-1253              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1254   windows-1254              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1255   windows-1255              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1256   windows-1256              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1257   windows-1257              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1258   windows-1258              True     True     True     True     True     True     
1361   Johab                     False    False    False    False    False    True     
10000  macintosh                 False    False    False    False    True     True     
10001  x-mac-japanese            False    False    False    False    False    True     
10002  x-mac-chinesetrad         False    False    False    False    False    True     
10003  x-mac-korean              False    False    False    False    False    True     
10004  x-mac-arabic              False    False    False    False    True     True     
10005  x-mac-hebrew              False    False    False    False    True     True     
10006  x-mac-greek               False    False    False    False    True     True     
10007  x-mac-cyrillic            False    False    False    False    True     True     
10008  x-mac-chinesesimp         False    False    False    False    False    True     
10010  x-mac-romanian            False    False    False    False    True     True     
10017  x-mac-ukrainian           False    False    False    False    True     True     
10021  x-mac-thai                False    False    False    False    True     True     
10029  x-mac-ce                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
10079  x-mac-icelandic           False    False    False    False    True     True     
10081  x-mac-turkish             False    False    False    False    True     True     
10082  x-mac-croatian            False    False    False    False    True     True     
12000  utf-32                    False    False    False    False    False    True     
12001  utf-32BE                  False    False    False    False    False    True     
20000  x-Chinese-CNS             False    False    False    False    False    True     
20001  x-cp20001                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20002  x-Chinese-Eten            False    False    False    False    False    True     
20003  x-cp20003                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20004  x-cp20004                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20005  x-cp20005                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20105  x-IA5                     False    False    False    False    True     True     
20106  x-IA5-German              False    False    False    False    True     True     
20107  x-IA5-Swedish             False    False    False    False    True     True     
20108  x-IA5-Norwegian           False    False    False    False    True     True     
20127  us-ascii                  False    False    True     True     True     True     
20261  x-cp20261                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20269  x-cp20269                 False    False    False    False    True     True     
20273  IBM273                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20277  IBM277                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20278  IBM278                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20280  IBM280                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20284  IBM284                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20285  IBM285                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20290  IBM290                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20297  IBM297                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20420  IBM420                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20423  IBM423                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20424  IBM424                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20833  x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended   False    False    False    False    True     True     
20838  IBM-Thai                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
20866  koi8-r                    True     True     True     True     True     True     
20871  IBM871                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20880  IBM880                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20905  IBM905                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
20924  IBM00924                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
20932  EUC-JP                    False    False    False    False    False    True     
20936  x-cp20936                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
20949  x-cp20949                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
21025  cp1025                    False    False    False    False    True     True     
21866  koi8-u                    True     True     True     True     True     True     
28591  iso-8859-1                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28592  iso-8859-2                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28593  iso-8859-3                False    False    True     True     True     True     
28594  iso-8859-4                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28595  iso-8859-5                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28596  iso-8859-6                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28597  iso-8859-7                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28598  iso-8859-8                True     True     False    False    True     True     
28599  iso-8859-9                True     True     True     True     True     True     
28603  iso-8859-13               False    False    True     True     True     True     
28605  iso-8859-15               False    True     True     True     True     True     
29001  x-Europa                  False    False    False    False    True     True     
38598  iso-8859-8-i              True     True     True     True     True     True     
50220  iso-2022-jp               False    False    True     True     False    True     
50221  csISO2022JP               False    True     True     True     False    True     
50222  iso-2022-jp               False    False    False    False    False    True     
50225  iso-2022-kr               False    False    True     False    False    True     
50227  x-cp50227                 False    False    False    False    False    True     
51932  euc-jp                    True     True     True     True     False    True     
51936  EUC-CN                    False    False    False    False    False    True     
51949  euc-kr                    False    False    True     True     False    True     
52936  hz-gb-2312                True     True     True     True     False    True     
54936  GB18030                   True     True     True     True     False    True     
57002  x-iscii-de                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57003  x-iscii-be                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57004  x-iscii-ta                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57005  x-iscii-te                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57006  x-iscii-as                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57007  x-iscii-or                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57008  x-iscii-ka                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57009  x-iscii-ma                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57010  x-iscii-gu                False    False    False    False    False    True     
57011  x-iscii-pa                False    False    False    False    False    True     
65000  utf-7                     False    False    True     True     False    True     
65001  utf-8                     True     True     True     True     False    True     

V.ACTIVE directory commands - after turned "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service" feature from control panel following commands appeared on my machine -  Csvde ,DSACLs,DCDIAG,Dsamain,Dsdbutil,dsmgmt,ldifde,ldp,netdom,nltest,Repadmin,Setspn



VI.schtasks  - creating task on demand - this is an option available in the UI but not from command line. Workaround is to create a task scheduled far in the past:

SCHTASKS /create /tn notepad__task /tr "C:\Windows\notepad.exe" /sc ONCE /sd 01/01/1910 /st 00:00

VII. Logman - it allows you to start task on threshold event .As I wondered what type this task is it appeared that this is a scheduled taks.Here's how to use the the task created above id CPU is bigger tah 5%:

logman create alert notepad__ -th "\Processor(_Total)\%% Processor Time>5" -tn "notepad__task"


   
VIII. TYPE - would suggest to include STRINGS.EXE  form sysinternals in the related stuff .This tool proved useful for me.

IX.BITSADMIN - as this is something that's confused me - bitsadmin does not work with relative paths.



Hope this post does not scares you :-)

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#79 22 Sep 2014 20:00

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

i. - I've updated the FOR /F page (may also need to update some other FOR pages?) Edit: also updated this page
II. FOR /L - updated
III.Wildcars - updated wildcards page and IF page.
IV.CHCP - will look into this some more and get back to you
V.AD commands - will look into this some more and get back to you
VI.schtasks - updated in examples
VII. LOGMAN - updated in examples
VIII. TYPE - updated and added new page for strings
IX.BITSADMIN - updated

Thanks once again for the feedback npocmaka

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#80 23 Sep 2014 15:09

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Simon Sheppard wrote:

i. - I've updated the FOR /F page (may also need to update some other FOR pages?) Edit: also updated this page
II. FOR /L - updated
III.Wildcars - updated wildcards page and IF page.
IV.CHCP - will look into this some more and get back to you
V.AD commands - will look into this some more and get back to you
VI.schtasks - updated in examples
VII. LOGMAN - updated in examples
VIII. TYPE - updated and added new page for strings
IX.BITSADMIN - updated

Thanks once again for the feedback npocmaka

And thanks for the update.
I don't think other FOR pages need update as this concerns mainly for /f options.

Still this:

The letters used for tokens are case sensitive, so there are a total of 61 ASCII characters that may be used as FOR tokens: ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z {

May need to be changed. To calculate tokens sequence FOR /F uses their ascii codes. The characters from 128 to 254 (from the extended ascii characters) can be used as tokens without problems (hence there could be problem for copying/pasting these characters...). 255 cant. Some of them cannot be used as first token and others need some workarounds. The dbenham's table is clear enough I think.



Also environment variables table is still not complete :-)

-ProgramW6432  ; CommonProgramW6432 - avaialble only on 64b systems
-PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 - when 3b process starts under 64b system.
-HIGHESTNUMANODENUMBER - avaialble from win7 (not sure about Vista .Has a chance to available for XP sp2) - dynamic variable not visible with SET "
-=::=::\  - nobody knows what this is.

(don't know about FP_NO_HOST_CHECK which comes after office/fontpage installation should or should not be included)

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#81 28 Sep 2014 19:43

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

I have now reworded the CHCP page, with some more Unicode details, updated the FOR /f page to list the token characters that can be used without extra escaping and linked to dbenham's table for the masochists who want more than 31 tokens.
Also added NLTest and updated the environment variables table.
I'm also going to add a page for SETSPN when I get the time.

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#82 29 Sep 2014 22:38

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

carlos wrote:

Simon, the page not mentions DisableDelayedExpansion

Thanks Carlos, somehow I missed your post among all the other updates, but I have now added that to the SETLOCAL page

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

I have today re-arranged the SS64 home page, this is mainly to make browsing easier on small/mobile devices - there is more space around the buttons to make things easier on touch devices.

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Just commenting that Firefox here isn't too happy with it - desktop version, V33.1, Windows 8.1 32bit, have adblock loaded.

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#85 22 Nov 2014 19:24

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Oh that doesn't look good!, I've not been able to reproduce this (with or without adblock) but it looks like the search box is wrapping for some reason,
I have just made the search box a bit narrower, does it work for you now?

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

It looks fine in Chrome and MSIE - Firefox is below and in safe mode - which also is odd.  It's V33.11 now.

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

OK I managed to reproduce it with the different font sizes. Try again now - should hopefully be fixed.

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#88 24 Nov 2014 10:53

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It's looking fine here now - all good. smile

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Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

Thought the last post here would be be the real last but... smile
The newthings accumulated and I again have a few suggestions for updates:


1.DEL
Does not change the errorlevel when fails and is pointless to be used with conditional execution
More info  . Rmdid and failed redirection
also have issues with preserving the errorlevel (again in the same link) but it's not so frustrating as the DEL command




2.FORFILES
It has issues when external command is called with arguments. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2698 … hout-cmd-c)
A workaround is to use double space before the first argument or  to double call the command:

forfiles /c "ping  /a"
                  ^two spaces

or

forfiles /c "ping ping -a"
forfiles /c "find find /c /v 0x220x22 @path"



3.PATH/DPATH
One of the (two) useful things that dpath can be used for is input redirection , but is still not cover in the help pages -
http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=1876

4.NETSH(nvspbind)
NVSPBIND download page has been changed - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/H … d-cf937850

5.Some exit codes that can be useful:

fc:
    -1 (minus) - wrong syntax (e.g. only one file passed)
    0- files are identical
    1- files are different
    2- cannot find at least one of the files
    For invalid switch (wirh two passed files) error message is printed  in error stream but errorlevel is not changed

    comp:
    0- files are identical
    1- files are different
    2- cannot open one of the files or invalid arguments or invalid switch


    find:
    0- string found
    1- string not found
    2- invalid switch, wrong parameters

    findstr:
    0- string found
    1- string not found
    2- wrong syntax
    For invalid switch only prints error message in error stream




===Two techniques I consider as important====


6. Wraped-nesting (don't how to call it) -
which allows breaking inner for loop.It'spretty amazing .First I saw it here ( http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic. … 348#p17348 ) :


	@echo off
	SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
	for %%a in (a b c) DO (
	   echo Outer loop %%a
	   call :inner 
	)
	goto :eof
	:inner
	for %%b in (U V W X Y Z) DO (
	  if %%b==X (
		echo    break
		goto :break
	  )
	  echo    Inner loop    Outer=%%a Inner=%%b
	)
	:break
	goto :eof

   
Output

	Outer loop a
	   Inner loop    Outer=a Inner=U
	   Inner loop    Outer=a Inner=V
	   Inner loop    Outer=a Inner=W
	   break
	Outer loop b
	   Inner loop    Outer=b Inner=U
	   Inner loop    Outer=b Inner=V
	   Inner loop    Outer=b Inner=W
	   break
	Outer loop c
	   Inner loop    Outer=c Inner=U
	   Inner loop    Outer=c Inner=V
	   Inner loop    Outer=c Inner=W
	   break

The tokens of the wrapping loop are accessible event through a subroutine - but only inside the nested FOR. Works even if the inner loop is in separated bat file.


7.Parametrized SET

On the help pages only CALL SET way is covered which is one of the slowest ways (using CALL always reduce the performance).Though they are more verbose

7.1 - using delayed expansion :
   

	@echo off

	set variable=1234567890

	setlocal enableDelayedExpansion

	set "begin=5"
	set "end=3"

	set sub_variable=!variable:~%begin%,%end%!

	endlocal && (
		set sub_variable=%sub_variable%
	)

	echo %sub_variable%

7.2 - using FOR loop - the delayed expansion method cannot be used when parameters and set are used in same brackets context so FOR can be used:

	@echo off

	set variable=1234567890
	setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
	(
		

		set "begin=5"
		set "end=3"
		
		for /f "tokens=1,2" %%a in ("!begin! !end!") do (
			set sub_variable=!variable:~%%a,%%b!
        )
		
	)
	
	endlocal && (
			set sub_variable=%sub_variable%
	)

	echo %sub_variable%

7.3 - a subroutine can be used , but I think this is less usable way

	@echo off
	set variable=1234567890
	
	call :substring 5 3 sub_variable
	
	echo %sub_variable% 
	
	goto :eof
	
	:substring %1-begin %2-end %3-return var
	setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
	set "var=!variable:~%1,%2!
	endlocal & set %3=%var%
	exit /b 0


8.FOR /F -
some commands that have no effect when are called through FOR /F - SHIFT,SETLOCAL,ENDLOCAL,CALL :SUBROUTINE:

This will have no effect

for /f %%# in ('GOTO :SOMEWHERE ^& SHIFT ^& SETLOCAL') do (echo something)

This will produce an error:

for /f %%# in (call :subroutine) do (echo something)


9.Escape characters (the carret case) - not sure if this worth mentioning but when pipes are used , the expressions are parsed twice .First when the expression
before the pipe is executed and for a second time when the expression after the pipe is executed.So double escaping is needed:

so this will produce `echo is on`:

	break|echo ^&

and this `&`

	break|echo ^^^&

10.IEXPRESS  - does this utlity worth a page? It's available in every windows system and besides it's UI it also has a command line interface.
It's used for creation of selfextracting packages plus the ablity for post-extraction commands (and also uses makecab).It can be used also for different things

Here's a draft for a help page:

Iexpress

Creates a single self-extracting package from a set of files.

command line options:

[/N [/Q] [/M]] <SED filename> [/O:Override Sedfilename,OverrifeSectionName] [/D:directory]

/N: Build package now (SED Filename must be specified)
/Q: Quite mode when using /N
/M: Use minimized windows when using /N
/O: Specify override SED file and section
/D: Override sirectory for exe stub




SED File Format: (I couldn't find a neat documentation about this)

[ Version ]
Class=IExpress
SEDVersion=3

[ Options ]
ExtractOnly=0/1                                                   ;If 1 will execute nothing after extraction.If missing will create only a cab file.
ShowInstallProgramWindow=0/1/2/3                        ;How the window for installed program will look
                                                                         ;0-default , 1- hidden ,2-minimized ,3-maximized
HideExtractAnimation=1/0                                      ;                                 
RebootMode=0/1/2 or A/I/N/S                                ;0-will not reboot machine afer installation,1-force restart,2-if restart is needed.
ShowRebootUI=1/0                                               ;1-will prompt user for restart,2-without prompt
CAB_FixedSize=0                                                 ;
CAB_ResvCodeSigning=6144                                  ;
PackageInstallSpace(KB)=xxxx                               ;
InsideCompressed=1                                           ;   
CompressionType=[ MSZIP | LZX | QUANTUM ]       ;
Quantum=7                                                       ;
KeepCabinet=1/0                                                ;
SourceFiles="SampleApp"                                    ;
Strings="Strings"                                               ;in which section additional info will be stored
InstallPrompt=%InstallPrompt%                           ;Prompt message before the extraction (with yes/no button).Actual value is in [Strings] section
DisplayLicense=%DisplayLicense%                        ;Location to a file containing license message..Actual value is in [Strings] section
AppLaunched=%AppLaunched%                            ;Application that will be launched after the extraction
      -or-
AppLaunched="#Setup"                                       ;a setup file with post-extraction commands
EndMessage=%FinishMessage%                            ;Post installation message (with OK button).Actual value is in [Strings] section
TargetName=%TargetName%                               ;The name of the exe that will be created
FriendlyName=%FriendlyName%                           ;String that will be used as a title in installation windows
AppLaunched2=%AppLaunched2%                          ;
AppLaunched3=%AppLaunched3%
AppLaunched4=%AppLaunched4%

[ SampleApp ]
Source1=Source.prog   ;Path to source files. UNC or C:\<sourcedir>
Source2=Source.dat

[ Source.dat ]
%DisplayLicense%
%File1%   ;Can be localizable strings or exact file names
%File2%
%File3%
%File4%
%File5%

[ Source.prog ]
%AppLaunched%
%AppLaunched2%
%AppLaunched3%
%AppLaunched4%

[ Setup ] (Optional)
%AppLaunched2%
%AppLaunched3%
%AppLaunched4%

[ Strings ]   ;(Mainly used by localizers)
InstallPrompt="Do you wish to install this Sample App?"
DisplayLicense=License.txt
AppLaunched="Setup.exe"
      -or-
AppLaunched="#Setup"
EndMessage="Thank you installing Sample App"
PackageName="Sample.exe"
FriendlyName="Microsoft Cool App"
AppLaunched2=App.inf
AppLaunched3=Config.exe
AppLaunched4=Final.inf
File1=C:\stuff\*.*
File2=C:\Stuff\*.exe
File3=C:\Stuff\data.obj
File4=\\server\share\stuff\*.HTM
File5=C:\msdoc\License.txt


"Some quote" ~by SomeOne

Related:
Makecab
Iexress user guide -http://www.mdgx.com/INF_web/cdfinfo.htm

And happy holidays

Last edited by npocmaka (08 Dec 2014 08:02)

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#90 08 Dec 2014 14:54

foxidrive
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Registered: 04 Apr 2013
Posts: 339

Re: Pages in ss64.com/nt/ that need update

npocmaka wrote:

2.FORFILES
It has issues when external command is called with arguments. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2698 … hout-cmd-c)
A workaround is to use double space before the first argument or  to double call the command:

forfiles /c "ping  /a"
                  ^two spaces

or

forfiles /c "ping ping -a"
forfiles /c "find find /c /v 0x220x22 @path"

The cmd /c is required for this item.

forfiles /c "cmd /c ping -a"

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