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Is Dos in Windows 98se a full version or is it a stripped down version?
I can't network Dos in Windows 98se.
Is it possible?
Do I need to INSTALL Dos 6.22 after Windows 98se?
Why cant I ping in Dos/Windows 98se?
It says that you cant ping in Dos mode, but I restarted in Dos.
Is it a full version or not?Quote from: Carguy960 on December 08, 2008, 07:05:21 PM

It says that you cant ping in Dos mode, but I restarted in Dos.

Why cant you ping an IP address?

This is my first TOPIC on this site, I found him by chance, and I was fascinated by the amount of INFORMATION about the MS-DOS, the sites here in Brazil has little information about the MS-DOS, and generally always in search of the vast network sites . Use the prompt almost everyone, mainly because work in the IT area, and many tell me that the MS-DOS is a thing of the past, but for me he is alive, and create files love, HOPE you can learn and share information about the large SYSTEM initiated by Tim Paterson of Seattle ... the POINT of this was... good to hear you found what you were looking for!

Is there an AND OPERATOR for batch FILE?

Any comment or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you.bitwise AND operator is &

Code: [Select] SET /A expression

The /A switch specifies that the string to the right of the equal sign
is a NUMERICAL expression that is evaluated. The expression evaluator
is pretty simple and supports the following operations, in decreasing
order of precedence:

() - grouping
! ~ - - unary operators
* / % - arithmetic operators
+ - - arithmetic operators
<< >> - logical shift
& - bitwise and
^ - bitwise exclusive or
| - bitwise or
= *= /= %= += -= - assignment
&= ^= |= <<= >>=
, - expression separator

If you use any of the logical or modulus operators, you will need to
enclose the expression string in quotes.
I apologize if this sounds stupid. I wrote a small program to test it out but it does not work with an AND operand, “&” as you have indicated. It does not display anything.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks (in ADVANCE)

Here’s the code:

@ECHO OFF

set /a five=5
set /a three=3

if ((5 equ %five%) & (3 equ %three%)) (echo TRUE) else (echo FALSE)
pause


That is a logical AND. (Not bitwise and) Not available directly in batch. Has to be simulated.

Code: [Select]if 5 equ %five% if 2 equ %three% (echo true) else (echo false)

Hello,

I sure this is real easy for you all but, its driving me nuts . How do I find a USB flash drives DRIVE letter (ex L: or F:) using cmd?

Thx,
Boot StrapsDepends on the context and even then the RESULT can be inconclusive. For example, this snippet may work:

Code: [Select]@ECHO off
for /f "tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart ^| find /i "Removeable"') do (
echo %%i:
)

However, if there are two removable drives on the system which one is correct? You could use the above snippet to search for the volume label, but you would need to know the volume label to write the script!

If you use autorun on the drive, you might be able to derive the drive letter from the %0 variable of the opened file.

What are you trying to do?

Hi

I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop, running as a pure DOS 6.22 machine. I NEED it this way for the radio programming software i use which will only work directly under DOS, any form of WINDOWS and it FAILS to talk to the radios!

AT the moment, only the central portion of the screen is used. I would like to be able to use the whole screen area, just so i can see the text better while setting the radios up. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

As said, apart from the inbuild Dell setup system/BIOS, there is only DOS 6.22 and the radio software on this machine, nothing else. I just want to use as much of the screen as i can. Im happy to edit config.sys etc as requiredUnless the CMOS setup provides the option, you may very well be out of luck. However, if you can find the software that can with older laptops, you might be able to find COMPATIBLE DOS utilities such as that you have described.

A PART of my code:
Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%v in ('isql -S %server% -D %database% -U %user% -P %pwd% -i test.sql') do (
echo %%v
)And the output returned when executing the database script is full of spaces and TABS.

prioran GSD

agerma GSD

savlahi DEV

rotheam DEV

I want to remove the tabs and spaces in between and set the first variable to the second.
let me give you an example.

set prioran=GSD and so on.

I know this needs a for loop and Findstr. Could anyone help?Code: [Select]setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=1,2" %%v in ('isql -S %server% -D %database% -U %user% -P %pwd% -i test.sql') do (
set 1=%%V
set 2=%%W
set 2=!1!)
echo %2%
this won't change the value in your sql database, just change the output vaule. to change the database you'll need something more powerful than DOS.

FBThanks FB. Appreciate the help.
The code works perfect except for this part.
Code: [Select]set 1=%%V
set 2=%%W
set 2=!1!)
echo %2%MAYBE its something I am doing wrong.
And I changed it to:
Code: [Select]set %%v=%%wwhich works.

But thanks a ton for it has solved quite a few of my issues.

Hi, I have an old 486 40MHz computer (built in late 1993) w/all my business (Quickbooks, data base, etc) on it. It is the end of the year as we all know and I can't open any files. I screwed up my boot disk on my hard drive (C:) years ago and have been USING an old game disk on my A: 5 1/4 floppy drive to boot the computer. Now either the disk has worn out or floppy drive A: has failed. I need to find a boot disk and/or a floppy drive quick (3 Days to the new year). Can any one HELP PLEASE! Travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad the appropiate bootdisk file...
Format a clean floppy and use the DLoad file to create a fresh boot disk.This should be a lesson. Confucius was a very wise man. He said, "A man who trusts his business to a 15 year old PC is hoping to soon be in the bankruptcy court".

99% of the posters on here are younger than that PC.
Quote from: patio on December 27, 2008, 01:55:28 PM

Travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad the appropiate bootdisk file...
Format a clean floppy and use the DLoad file to create a fresh boot disk.

Quote from: patio on December 27, 2008, 01:55:28 PM

Travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad the appropiate bootdisk file...
Format a clean floppy and use the DLoad file to create a fresh boot disk.

Buy a box of floppies and make several.

Get on your knees and pray hard that the hard disk drive lasts long enough for you to copy everything off onto another box or two of floppies. You are living on borrowed time.

This should be a lesson. Confucius was a very wise man. He said, "A man who trusts his business to a 15 year old PC is hoping to soon be in the bankruptcy court".

99% of the posters on here are younger than that PC.

I loved those old "Winchester" drives.

I wanted to use a for LOOP to loop THROUGHT certain files, and i need the file type of the current file


for /f "tokens=1*" %%a in ('dir /a ..\folder') do (
if "%%a%%b"=="FILETYPE" (CLS) ELSE GOTO QUIT
)


something similar to the abovefor /f "delims==" %%A in ('dir /b') do (
if "%~xA"==".JPG" echo It is a jpeg
)


thanks dias that does the trick

Can I map a drive or Share an external hard drive???
Need help bad!!!
Please...You need to be more specific about exactly what you're trying to do.We have been trying to network Dos to Windows 2003 Server. NO LUCK!
Everybody I talk to says it cant be done. Can it?
The only thing I need from the network is to access a folder with txt files.
If I cant network it can I share an external hard drive with the network?
Can I buy third party software to help with networking in Dos?

Thanks in advanceDoes the DOS machine have appropriate NDIS drivers for its video card?

Have you tried the net use command to map a network drive

Example:

net use g: \\server\share

Then access the files using the network drive letter (in the above example, drive G).Protocol might be an issue....Are you using IPX/SPX or TCPIP?

Does this DOS system have to be native DOS or can you run a command shell ( dos ) for same results, but use say Windows XP or even Windows 2000 Pro's CMD shell, and ride on the Windows TCPIP protocol and network drivers, as well as get pass thru authentication without having to PUT your credentials in plain text for anyone to see over network sniffing by NET USE map.. (( cringe ))?

If it has to be native DOS you can try a DOS emmulator like DOSBOX on Windows...just some suggestions. If you are native DOS 6.22 or earlier you are going to have all sorts of issues with the transport and firewall of server 2003 if enabled.

It can be done to say DOS 6.22, but with a lot of tweaking, extra drivers for DOS level TCPIP etc, and a possible security hole if anyone was able to view that drive MAPPING for authentication, or sniff it over the network unencrypted.We got a PC with Dos 6.22 networked but I tried to do the same setup with 98se booted in dos but I think it is a stripped down version of dos. It accepted the network setup but when I rebooted it gave a couple of errors. I will try to list the errors.

Can I load Windows 98se and Dos 6.22 on the same computer?Just out of curiosity, why do you need DOS?Printing software for a Scitex Inkjet printer that runs in Dos and pulls data (text files) from the network.
I am finding it very hard to network Dos. I wish I could send someone my IP, sub, pci card & drivers and they could put everything together and tell me where to put it. Networking Dos is over my head.It sounds like this is an old printer with even older business software that has no Windows equivalent?

First thing's first: you need DOS NDIS drivers for the network card of the computer you're using. Once you have that, you can map a network drive to your Server 2003 machine using the net use command

Example:

net use t: \\server\share

Then you can have the software look on the network drive for the text files (drive T from my above example).

GOOGLE "Ultimate Boot CD" to get you started.

I used the search, and everything I found didn't HELP much. So, how would you find a string in a batch file, and using the same batch file replace that string.You want a batch file to alter itself?
That is what it sound slike to me.
Wild guess. Maybe what he really wants is a replacement at run time. It will get a new string to tack onto each file in a group.Neither of you are correct, so I'll explain this again. My batch file has a lot of MSG * popups. So I want to give them the option of replacing the the msg* popups. So, I want to find and replace the msg * popups, so in a way I NEED the batch file to alter itself, but not literally. So, I need a code that will find and replace a string of code.You do know that it won't be REAL TIME...You might be able to change the string, then call itself?...I might just be dreaming...OH BOY Recursion in a batch file. Who needs java! We can now do it in a batch file. Maybe the towers of HANOI in a batch file. WAIT, I think somebody already did that!Quote from: Dias de verano on January 11, 2009, 03:27:44 PM

You want a batch file to alter itself?

Neither of you are correct ... so in a way I need the batch file to alter itself, but not literally.

Maybe the towers of Hanoi in a batch file. Roll Eyes Wait, I think somebody already did that!

I have set the system bios to open from cd/rom drive but it is not doing this automatically. Can anyone tell me what the prompt is?
Thanks,
DawnEdit-
Sorry missunderstood what you were trying to do.Quote from: sunrise5656 on January 11, 2009, 10:56:38 AM

I have set the system bios to open from cd/rom drive but it is not doing this automatically. Can anyone tell me what the prompt is?
Thanks,
Dawn

How to create excel files in folder with the same name of files that contains in that folder using batch?
explain more, you want to create a directory full of excel files that use the filenames of files in another directory just excel file type?? or do you want to rename all the files in a directory to excel file type?I have folder, in that folder there are *.txt files with date stamp in file name(exa today's date file name is 211208.txt) everyday new file with that days date will create.
I want to create only blank excel files with the same file names with extension *.txt extension present in that folder.Blank excel files with .txt extention ? or you want all the txt files to copy then be RENAMED to an excel extention? i DONT use excel but unless its in text chances are just adding an extention to a file isnt going to work..

@ECHO OFF
set dr=%systemdrive%\yourfolderpath&CLS
for /f "tokens=1*" %%a in ('dir /a %dr% /b') do (
call copy "%dr%\%%a%%b"
rename * *.EXL
)

Yourfolder path, dont ADD the C:\ part thats what %systemdrive% is for
*.EXL , is the excel file type i dont know what it is..
Hi,

It is working, but in this we are rename the file name from *.txt to *.xls.
But I don't want to rename file. I want to save file with the same name only with *.xls extension. I need *.txt file also.You'll need to use Excel to create an Excel spreadsheet. XLS files have a proprietary format that batch CODE cannot create:

Code: [Select]Const F_FOLDER = "c:\temp"

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

Set f = fso.GetFolder(F_FOLDER)
Set fc = f.Files

For Each fs In fc
If LCase(fso.GetExtensionName(fs)) = "txt" Then
Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add()
Set xlSheet = xlBook.Worksheets(1)
xlBook.SaveAs F_FOLDER & "\" & fso.GetBaseName(fs) & ".xls"
End If
Next

xlApp.Quit

Note: change the value of F_FOLDER in the first line to a valid folder. Save the script with a vbs extension and run from the command line as cscript scriptname.vbs

An"empty" XLS file has 13K worth of control codes. Hi,
It is working.. Thanks.

Is there any way to copy data from 2 other files in excel file.

I have 2 files, one file contains only header & second file contains all data.
I want to combine this header & data in excel file.

Is it possible using Batch file?, because I want to do this with single click.

(In header file headers are in columns
exa.
header 1
header 2
header 3 etc.

I want this header to copy in first row of excel as
header 1 in row1, column A
header 2 in row1, column B
header 3 in row1, column C etc & then all data from second file & copy in excel from second row)

Is it possible by using batch file??
Quote

Is it possible by using batch file?

I have 2 files with same name & extension *.txt & *.hdr
I want to create New excel(*.xls) file with same name & copy data from both files above in excel file & in one sheet.

Is anybody know the solution of this?You want to do this.....with a batch file?Yes,

Is it Possible?Doubt it. Why?The solution is very easy, just copy the files and save them as .xls.
I think making a batch file just to do that is kind of useless unless you going to do more operations like that.Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 01, 2009, 01:48:40 PM

The solution is very easy, just copy the files and save them as .xls .

You are given me VB Script but by using this we can create blank excel file. but by using below code we can replace *.txt file in *.xls.

set dr=%systemdrive%\yourfolderpath&CLS
for /f "tokens=1*" %%a in ('dir /a %dr% /b') do (
call copy "%dr%\%%a%%b"
rename * *.EXL
)

Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 01, 2009, 01:48:40 PM

The solution is very easy, just copy the files and save them as .xls .

If only it were that easy. You cannot turn files into proprietary file formats by copying them and changing the extensions.

I have series of log files.I want to append all of them into a single file.I want the log file name to be appended before the log text.After appending,all the log files to be deleted.
Following code MAY help you

Code: [Select]@echo off
set logfile=C:\log.txt
if exist "%logfile%" del "%logfile%"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s *.log') do type "%%a" >> "%logfile%"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s *.log') do call del "%%a"
it copies the content of all lof files in one txt file and delete them after that thanks .I also want to append the name of the log file before appending its contents.
How do I go about that?Quote from: doslearner on September 18, 2008, 12:06:44 AM

thanks .I also want to append the name of the log file before appending its contents.
How do I go about that?

It works

At work, when I open up a program it automatically pop up a dialog box and I need to click ENTER to close it. I do not have the ADMIN writes so I can not change any settings for the application.

Is it POSSIBLE for me to write a batch file that opens up the file (which I can do) and then using the batch file clicks ENTER for me.

Thank you.
You could try

ECHO. | program.exe

where program.exe is your program
thank you Dias but it does not work

Any other comment of suggestions are always appreciated.
tks...echo Y
In my batch file to open my application
START EXPLORER "C:\Program Files\blah\blah\blah\someprograme.exe"
it launches the application but I need to manually click ENTER.

I tried
"C:\Program Files\blah\blah\blah\someprograme.exe" for some reason it lauches the application and automatically bypass the ENTER key perfectly.

PROBLEM:The DOS cmd prompt window refuses to close. There are no text in it or any error message. Any comments of how to close this DOS cmd prompt window.

thanksTry this

Code: [Select]start "" "C:\Program Files\blah\blah\blah\someprograme.exe" Thank you Dias de verano

you are a GENIUS, it WORKED perfectly!!!!

How do I append the contents of one text file to the end of another text file?

I have two text files, A.txt and B.txt. I want to append the contents of B.txt to the end of A.txt.

NOTE: I have SEARCH the word "append" but apparently there is a APPEND command some how similar to the PATH command. This is not what I am looking for.


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]Also,

Help files indicate the COPY command will append my files together with the "+" function. I have had no success with this command either.

COPY A.txt + B.txt A.txt
COPY A.txt B.txt + A.txt
COPY A.txt + B.txt

Also, I am doing this in a batch file. Perhaps this makes a difference.

Tim CNew Information

I have been able to perform the APPEND at the DOS command line but not within the batch file.

TYPE B.TXT>>A.TXT should append b.txt to a.txt (caps are for emphasis only)

Copy a.txt+b.txt REQUIRES a new OUTPUT file, a file cannot be copied ONTO itself.
e.g. copy a.txt+b.txt c.txt (c.txt would contain the appended files.)

This is not a recognized use for the Append command, enter Append/? at the Command Prompt to check the syntax.

Good luckDusty,

Thank you. The TYPE command works.

Tim Thanks for coming back to report your success.. Another winner..

Would a perl script to combine multiple files work faster? I have to combine 4 files that are at least a gig into one file.Quote from: jdd on January 06, 2009, 09:11:42 AM

Would a perl script to combine multiple files work faster? I have to combine 4 files that are at least a gig into one file.

Windows XP H.

Is there a command, or series of commands, which will DETECT alpha characters in a variable which should only contain numerics, without testing each INDIVIDUAL character?

Purpose:
If the user enters "batfile 1p" instead of "batfile 10" I want to detect that an alpha character exists in the variable, without needing to know what that character is, and echo a warning onscreen.

Thanks

I am sure that you can do something with this

C:\Test>set /A value=hallo1
Invalid number. Numeric constants are either decimal (17),
HEXADECIMAL (0x11), or octal (021).

Checking %errorlevel% after shows a value of 9167 - the only thing you have to worry about is if the user inadvertantly enters a valid hex string

Graham

Code: [Select]
Echo %value%|FindStr /R "[^0-9]" > nul
If %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
set result=not numeric
) Else (
set result=numeric
)


In this line

Code: [Select]Echo %value%|FindStr /R "[^0-9]" > nul
the result of 'echo %value%' is piped ('|') to become the INPUT to FindStr.
The '/R "[^0-9]" part tells FindStr to search for a regular ('/R')
expression, which is '"[^0-9]"', which means 'not the digits 0 through 9'.
The '> nul' part means 'do not display any results on the screen'. If
ERRORLEVEL is 0 upon completion of the line, it means that the variable %value%
contained at least one non-numeric character, i.e., at least one character
not belonging to the set of digits from 0 to 9.

Thank you for the responses and the excellent breakdown of the command line.

Hello. This is my first post! I have been playing with batch for a while now as I find it to be very empowering and intriguing.

Anyway,

I have a second computer infected with viruses, and I have two batch-based tools I want to use to clean it up, but I want to write them on a CD so I can use them later if I get infected again!

So here's where my interest lies. I tried to create a batch file to extract these two tools to the desktop of my SYSTEM and then run them, but they both seem to fail. I can't seem to understand why. I have been testing with nero burning rom (burning nrg image files) and then loading them on daemon tools to test. The code works FINE if used locally, but if you run the batch file from the CD, it extracts the files fine but then I get access denied errors on the two tools. The tools in question are "RogueFix.bat" and "SmitFraudFix.exe". A quick google search will find either. SmitFraudFix extracts a folder and then runs a cmd file. I have tried just copying over the folder only to run the cmd but still have the same issues.

This is a copy of my batch file for each:

;Roguefix
xcopy "%cd%\RogueFix" "%userprofile%\desktop\RogueFix" /e /y /h /q /i
cd "%userprofile%\desktop\RogueFix\"
start "RogueFix" "%userprofile%\desktop\RogueFix\roguefix_2.234.bat"

When it runs the program it gets access denied several times after hitting any key to continue.

;SmitFraudFix
xcopy "%cd%\SmitfraudFix.exe" "%userprofile%\desktop"
cd "%userprofile%\desktop"
SmitfraudFix.exe

It gives a funny ERROR in another language and closes; likely the same issue just seen a different way.

Am I doing something wrong?

I LIKE making little discs like this for myself so I never have to worry again.

Any help?PUT a pause after each line, then give a list of all error messages.

You can create a custom Command Prompt command by making the batch file and placing it in system32, but since batch files open up using commands from system32, couldn't you use the custom commands in your batch files ?you can create a batch file that does whatever you want. and call it from anywhere (like command prompt commands - they are just files in system32.) As long as the new 'command' is in a directory on the path environment variable (and on the list of files to use). change both these properties by right clicking My Computer - properties - advanced system settings - environment VARIABLES.

Hope i explained this well enough.

FBQuote

you can create a batch file that does whatever you want.

he isn't adding commands, he is making batch files with the same name as the command he wishes to create. this effectively creates a new custom command. Personally I just call them batch files in any context.

I have created a program that searches system32 for anything with that name so, in the end I think I will not have any file path confusion and such.

ever since i BUILT my own pc all i play now are PC games. well the MAJORITY of games I play are PC i guess i should say.

Since i've started college though i haven't been able to play that many recently, as i have no time to. I guess i need to catch up on current games so I can GIVE some reviews.

Some recent games i've played that are amazing are:
FEAR COMBAT, which is free, all you have to do is register
Need For Speed Carbon, it's alright, but i'm kind of getting tired of the NFS series games
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade - this GAME is amazing if you love RTS games, it's a combination of StarCraft and other RTS's. its great. you should try it out!

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and this is in the DOS forum because...?Quote from: BC_Programmer on January 07, 2009, 11:13:52 PM

and this is in the DOS forum because...?

Anybody can HELP!

I have serveral files to update on clients desktop, but I NEED to MAKE SURE that the batch FILE is executed by the clients. How can I echo the log file with the client's computer name?

many thanksecho How will you know the clients have run this batch file? Do you have access to their computer? Why not run the batch file when you're at their computer? >>"path\to\file.txt"Clients will executed the batch in their desktop by themselves, but i need to record the user who has been executed. %username%?

My question is, if the clients will execute the batch program, how will you know they did?that's why i need the log file and the file name should be their computer name.txtBut.....how do you get the log file?

Quote from: dcheong on January 08, 2009, 03:30:24 AM

the file name should be their computer name.txt

Quote from: JJ 3000 on January 07, 2009, 09:52:55 PM

I think he means the command line.

But still you didn't have to be so GDR,
Tan_Za

Did you ever use EdLin? Or anything like it?
Does anybody here know what I mean? It was a line editor. You would edit lines of test one line at a time. You could read a number of lines in. Make a replacement. Insert a line. Then read the rest of the files and then write to whole thing out to a new file. I think you could give it commands in batch file. I don't remember. Is there SOMETHING like that that can run from a batch files?
edlin still exists, may be possible to write a script for it
try edlin edlin test FNF...(File Not Found) edlin was supposed to DIE when they replaced it in DOS 6 with EDIT. (well, edit was actually in DOS 5 as well, I believe, but I guess they kept edlin for those poor folks that couldn't deal with more then one line of text at once.)Edlin is the only thing I know of in DOS that can take a command line arguments beyond just the file name. If you say
edlin test
It will open the file "test" if it exists, or created it. You can not put that part in a script.
I took the recommendation of an earlier post and made a scipt file. But I can not call it anything but a .TXT file or I can not edit it in notepad.
So far I now got this:
edlin test.txt Which will WORK nice if there is a short file called 'TEST.TXT' and a file called 'FILE.TXT" that has just this:
?
l
q
y

Yeah, That all Shows the help. list the file, quits and says yes.
Now If I can get it to do something useful!Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 07, 2009, 10:02:43 AM

Edlin is the only thing I know of in DOS that can take a command line arguments beyond just the file name.

err... I must be confused as to what you mean, since Dir can take a filename and ...

modify the file through batch, and that's what your looking to do with Edlin?

hey guys, im kinda noob with DOS and almost never used this, and got a question...

I have added some files on the desktop of my windows 2003 server and I need acces to it to make a back up of it. I need to use the Windows XP client. What commands are NEEDED to get acces to this file and copy them?

I used network bootdisks and after I restarted I got into the DOS.

Kind regards,
R.You will need to first create a user/password and share at the server 2003 side. Then from the Windows XP side you can create a map to the share using NET USE (available drive letter ) and then server share name hidden with $ & user\password. You then should be able to XCOPY *.* ( copy all contents files and folders from that shared location to a designated area on your Windows XP MACHINE always updating the data upon execution with the latest files ) And you will need to create a folder like Backup on your C: drive of the XP system as the bucket to drop these xcopied files and folders to, such as.

NET USE Z: \\your2003server\sharename$ /user:ValidUserName Password

XCOPY Z:\*.* C:\backup\*.* /s/d/y

NET USE Z: /delete

I would chose a location to store this data other than desktop and create a share there that the XP system can get to. Also note that this batch is an unsecured way of doing this, and a more secured way to do this would be to compile that batch .Bat as an .Exe to hide the user name and password from any users at that system who dont know how to use exe decompiler to view credentials.

Another way to go about the backup you want is to run it from the Server 2003 side and ADD it as a scheduled task to trigger the backup to the XP systems C: drive at a shared location there.
Thanks for your quick reply, I will try this ASAP.

Anyone have a batch file to search for all log files in SEVERAL DIRECTORIES based on a timestamp?

For example I want to FIND all log files in all the directories under foo that INCLUDE the log for let's say 2pm. The log files have timestamp 1:42pm, 1:57pm, 2:13pm, etc. So you would return the file with the last timestamp of 2:13pm. You would then go on to search the next directory in the same way.

Thanks,
srizzo

Code: [Select]@echo off
:start
set /p add=what time are you looking for?
if "%add%"="" echo enter time please && goto start
dir c:\foo\*.txt /t:c /s | find "%add%"
you'll have to be exact on the time. Unless you want to code in tolerances.

FBThat's the thing, the log file won't have an exact time that matches the user input. The batch file NEED to find the file where the user input would be the last file less than the timestamp of the log file.

For example user inputs 2:13pm

foo.log 1:33pm
foo1.log 1:55pm
foo2.log 2:21pm

The batch file would need to return foo2.log file since the user input falls between 1:55pm and 2:21pm.


Quote from: fireballs on January 08, 2009, 10:24:06 AM

Code: [Select]@echo off
:start
set /p add=what time are you looking for?
if "%add%"="" echo enter time please && goto start
dir c:\foo\*.txt /t:c /s | find "%add%"
you'll have to be exact on the time. Unless you want to code in tolerances.

FB

I'm sorry, I just need help on what Variables and Equ is. Any help please ;O!

BRGenerally a VARIABLE is the name of information stored. e.g. 123 could be stored for future use with the name ZZ using the Set command SET ZZ=123 The information can then be manipulated using the Set command e.g. SET/A ZZ=%ZZ%+10 which changes the value of ZZ to 133.

For more information on variables enter SET/? at the command prompt.

EQU is one of the arithmetic compare operands. For information on the operands enter IF/? at the command prompt.

Good luck

Thanks for a replay. I'll do the Command Prompt right nao!To make things a bit easier:
EQU means EQUAL TO (these only work for numerical. Use == for anything else)
NEQ means NOT EQUAL TO
LEQ means LESS OR EQUAL TO
LSS means LESS THAN
GEQ means GREATER OR EQUAL TO
GTR means GREATER THANQuote from: Dusty on January 07, 2009, 02:41:56 PM

The information can then be manipulated using the Set command e.g. SET ZZ=%ZZ%+10 which changes the value of ZZ to 133.

A good explanation, but you use SET /A to do arithmetic

Generally a variable is the name of information stored. e.g. 123 could be stored for future use with the name ZZ using the Set command SET ZZ=123 The information can then be manipulated using the Set command e.g. SET/A ZZ=%ZZ%+10 which changes the value of ZZ to 133.

For more information on variables enter SET/? at the command prompt.

EQU means EQUAL TO (these only work for numerical. Use == for anything else)

Quote from: Helpmeh on January 07, 2009, 03:13:15 PM

EQU means EQUAL TO (these only work for numerical. Use == for anything else)

i always use equ even with strings and nothing hapen right now Is this strange ?

is there a peice of code that will serch the whole drive for a cirtain file type (such as my own created one .steven)DIR /s /b /a-d *.stephenYou could ALSO add a

Code: [Select]set /p variable=
So then you can choose what file you want to search for .

So it would look like this

Code: [Select]@echo off
:start
cls
set /p variable=
dir /s /b /a-d "%variable%"
pause>nul
goto start

I just add everything else in even though you know about that.





so the file would be made the variable thats on the code
Quote from: DIAS de verano on January 03, 2009, 01:21:00 PM

dir /s /b /a-d *.stephen

so the file would be made the variable thats on the code

If you use the code from Dios

how can i make a cirtan action HAPPEN when 6 driffrent variables equal the same (0)If they all need to be zero, then you can simply sum them and check that the RESULT is still zero
Set /A TOTAL=%var1% + %var2% + %var3% + %VAR4% + %var5% + %var6%
Grahamset "flag="
for %%a in (%v1% %v2% %v3% %v4% %v5% %v6%) do if %%a neq 0 set flag=1
if not defined flag (
rem Your COMMAND here when they all equal to 0
)

i KNOW all those free file hosting websites have a limit on the download bandwidth.

but im thinking about finding a doom deathmatch site and playinThat would be awesome if they had a Doom Deathmatch website.Heres Another BugFix...

Fixed:
-the rest of save
-about
-time feature
-portals work
-Return to game from quit works
-User already chosen fixed.


http://odn.t35.com/dead/Bug_fix2/

Chose install.zip 193.00KBHfmwebs.co.cc is a free host. Includes ftp and other services as well...10240MB of bandwith (I'm not sure if that's good or bad) and MySQL. It's an overall ok host.I think 1 gig is plenty for a batch file game .Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 03, 2009, 06:58:14 PM

That would be awesome if they had a Doom Deathmatch website.

theres plenty of Doom deathmatch sites, namely Zdaemon( i play it and its pretty fun)

im writing a BATCH file and i cant find anywhere that will show me a peice of code that will open a shortcut that is on the same drive and folder as the bat file

its probably realy simple like 3 words but i cant remember

the file is phun.ink


also can some one post a code snipit for a .bat file to cheak if a file or drive exists


one more question how do you make a code that picks a random number in a range
so it will pick a random number out of a list

and how can you make an autorun fileWhat have you GOT so far?

Can I confirm you want the batch file to open a shortcut on the same drive? (or same directory, as in it's in the same folder as the batch file)never mind about that now ive just rememberd it so my other qustion is what peice of code can determin if a disk drive existsQuote from: steven32collins on January 03, 2009, 05:26:09 AM

never mind about that now ive just rememberd it so my other qustion is what peice of code can determin if a disk drive exists

Code: [Select]if exist "c:\" echo Drive C exists

Quote

Code: [Select]if exist "c:\" echo Drive C exists

You should add this after that.

Code: [Select]if not exist "c:\" echo Drive C doesn't exist
So then if it doesn't exist it at least gives a message instead of the program just exiting out.

what peice of code can determin if a disk drive exists

Hello! I am making a Don't Forget The Lyrics! batch game. I just started it tonight, so I know i'm not far. I just need help adding the things.

I also have a question. I have it set so you do Vertigo first, then Sweet home, BUT, if you do Sweet first, it doesn't have Vertigo because it thinks it did Vertigo first.

If anyone could help me make it where if Sweet's first, or anything else, it has everything but that song, BUT, if it isn't first, it still has it? Thanks a BUNCH. I'll add credits and everything.

Code: [Select]@echo off
Title Dont Forget The Lyrics!
cls
echo Hello and welcome to Don't Forget The Lyrics! DOS Version!
echo So...Would you like to play?
set /p "yes= [ Y / N ] >"
if "%yes%"=="Y" goto Play
if "%yes%"=="y" goto Play
if "%yes%"=="N" goto Exit
if "%yes%"=="n" goto Exit
cls
:Play
cls
Echo Welcome! Choose a song and DONT FORGET THE LYRICS!
echo.
echo Vertigo - U2
echo Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
echo Dragula - Rob Zombie
echo Animal I Have BECOME - Three Days Grace
echo Sandman - Metallica
echo Shot Through The Heart - Bon Jovi
echo.
set /p "choice=[Enter first word] >"
if "%choice%"=="Vertigo" goto V
if "%choice%"=="Sweet" goto Sw
if "%choice%"=="Dragula" goto D
if "%choice%"=="Animal" goto A
if "%choice%"=="Sandman" goto Sa
if "%choice%"=="Shot" goto Sh
cls
:V
cls
Title Vertigo - U2
cls
echo SING IT!
echo.
echo.
echo Lights go down
echo It's dark
echo The jungle is your head
echo Can't rule your heart
echo I'm feeling so much stronger
echo Than I thought
echo Your EYES are wide
echo And ____ ____ ____
Echo.
Echo 3 MISSING WORDS!
echo Enter what YOU THINK!
echo.
set /p "l= [Three words] >"
if "%l%"=="though your soul" goto V1
goto Exit
cls
:V1
cls
Title Good Job!
echo GREAT JOB! You got it! You now have $5,000!
echo You can continue or drop out now and leave with 5 grand!
set /p "V1=[Continue / Drop] >"
if "%V1%"=="Continue" goto V2
if "%V1%"=="Drop" goto Drop
cls
:V2
cls
Title Choose a song!
echo Choose your next song for $10,000!
echo.
echo Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
echo Dragula - Rob Zombie
echo Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
echo Sandman - Metallica
echo Shot Through The Heart - Bon Jovi
set /p "choice=[Enter first word] >"
if "%choice%"=="Sweet" goto Sw
if "%choice%"=="Dragula" goto D
if "%choice%"=="Animal" goto A
if "%choice%"=="Sandman" goto Sa
if "%choice%"=="Shot" goto Sh
:Sw
cls
Title Sweet Home Alabama! - Lynyrd Skynyrd
echo SING IT!
echo.
echo Big wheels keep on turning
echo Carry me home to see my kin
echo Singing songs about the southland
echo I miss alabamy once again
echo And I think its a sin, yes
echo.
echo Well I heard mister young sing about her
echo Well, I heard ole neil put her down
echo Well, I hope ____ ____ will remember
echo A southern man dont need him around anyhow
echo.
echo.
Echo 2 MISSING WORDS!
echo Enter what YOU think!
echo.
set /p "ly=[Two words] >"
if "%ly%"=="neil young" goto Sw1
goto Exit
:Sw1
cls
Title Good Job!
echo GREAT JOB! You got it! You now have $10,000!
echo You can continue or drop out now and leave with 10 grand!
echo.
set /p "Sw1=[Continue / Drop] >"
if "%Sw1%"=="Continue" goto Sw2
if "%Sw1%"=="Drop" goto Drop
cls
:Sw2
cls
Title Choose your song!
echo Choose your next song for $15,000!
echo.
echo Dragula - Rob Zombie
echo Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
echo Sandman - Metallica
echo Shot Through The Heart - Bon Jovi
set /p "choice=[Enter first word] >"
if "%choice%"=="Dragula" goto D
if "%choice%"=="Animal" goto A
if "%choice%"=="Sandman" goto Sa
if "%choice%"=="Shot" goto Sh
:Drop
cls
Title Dropped out.
echo Thanks for playing! Created by Dylan!
Pause >Nul
exit
:Exit
cls
Title Goodbye!
Echo Goodbye!
pause
exit
Yes, I'm still working on it.

Dylanone problem.
Quote

echo Well, I hope ____ ____ remember
echo A southern man dont need him around anyhow
echo.
echo.
Echo 2 MISSING WORDS!
echo Enter what YOU think!

Do any of you know of a dos app that will allow access to a NTFS partition?

I have found NTFS4DOS.exe and it works perfectly but it is only AVAILABLE for personal use. I have also found readntfs.exe but this will not allow me to interact with the partition.

I am looking for a tool that will function LIKE NTFS4DOS but with out the SPLASH screen or LICENSING concerns.

thank you,
Wayne I have used Linux to access NTFS at a command line, but am unaware of any others other than NTFS4DOS. Linux has to run in native linux environment which is not what you are looking for, but you can use that to read NTFS data and write to FAT32 drive and then access the FAT32 through MSDOS.

What COMMAND i have to use , to do the silent installation by .bat file so that during installation , it should not GIVE any poup wizard.
try this,

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, FALSE

^ PUT the above in a .vbs file, file.vbs

Then use wscript.exe to start your batch file
wscript.exe "c:\file.vbs" "c:\other folder\batch.bat"

I know you can pull data from a text file using the following:

Code: [Select]FOR /f %%I in (file location) DO command %%I

but I am trying to gather more than one set of data. I will need to have 5 variables pulled from a text file. The text file will have the following format

73130 815000 1285000 820000 1280000

this will continue for around 700 entries or so (amount varies). I am looking for the ability to pull the first line of data then set each value to a different variable. use the variables then continue to the next next line.

thank you,
WayneCode: [Select] for /f "tokens=5" %%I in ('type file.txt') do (
echo %%I %%J %%K %%L %%M
rem your data is now in the variables %%I %%J %%K %%L %%M
)
FBDoesn't anybody ever test before posting?

Code: [Select][emailprotected] off
for /f "tokens=1-5" %%I in (file.txt) do (
echo %%I %%J %%K %%L %%M
)

%%I = 73130
%%J = 815000
%%K = 1285000
%%L = 820000
%%M = 1280000

sorry still not working for me.
Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
for /f "tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do (
echo %%I %%J %%K %%L %%M
)
pause

the test.txt contains the following:
73130 -80.508384995 27.867908653 -80.492973668 27.854099953
73131 -80.492909668 27.867852625 -80.477500339 27.854042223

when I run I GET just the pause and no ECHO.
Imagine that, quotes in a file name. Must be a new concept. Using quotes in a file name is FINE, but you need to let the for command that there are new semantics. Try using the usebackq parameter where a back quoted string is executed as a command and a single quoted string is a literal string command and allows the use of double quotes to quote file names in filenameset.

Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
for /f "usebackq tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do (
echo %%I %%J %%K %%L %%M
)
pause

Good luck.

OK got it. I also got it to work with the 8-dot-3 file names.

thanks!is there a way to step through the text file pulling one line at a time. Set the response to vars and then use them. When done go back to the text file and get the next line of data?

example:
Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
FOR /f "usebackq tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do GOTO ECHO

:ECHO
ECHO %I%
ECHO %J%
ECHO %K%
ECHO %L%
ECHO %M%
pause
What are you trying to do? If you are planning arithmetic operations on the columns, keep in mind batch code only does integer math. To keep the number of variable names unique and to a minimum you might set up a loop with compound (x.y) variable names.

Otherwise in keeping with your posted code, this may help:

Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
FOR /f "usebackq tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do (
ECHO %I%
ECHO %J%
ECHO %K%
ECHO %L%
ECHO %M%
)
pause

Happy Coding

thanks!

I jot a different work around for it.
Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
FOR /f "usebackq tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do (
SET I=%%I && SET J=%%J && SET K=%%K && SET L=%%L && SET M=%%M && CALL :ECHO %%I
)

ECHO JOB COMPLETED!
PAUSE
GOTO END

:ECHO
ECHO %I%
ECHO %J%
ECHO %K%
ECHO %L%
ECHO %M%


:END

basically I am taking a list of tile numbers and Decimal Degrees Coordinates and I am going to make XML files with the vars that are set.

a few more minor tweaks and it should be up and running.

thanks again for everyone that helped out with this.
WayneQuote from: wbrost on January 08, 2009, 02:14:02 PM

thanks!

I jot a different work around for it.
Code: [Select]@echo off
CLS
FOR /f "usebackq tokens=1-5" %%I in ("C:\Documents and Settings\ss947bw\Desktop\test2\test.txt") do (
SET I=%%I && SET J=%%J && SET K=%%K && SET L=%%L && SET M=%%M && CALL :ECHO %%I
)

ECHO JOB COMPLETED!
PAUSE
GOTO END

:ECHO
ECHO %I%
ECHO %J%
ECHO %K%
ECHO %L%
ECHO %M%


:END

basically I am taking a list of tile numbers and Decimal Degrees Coordinates and I am going to make XML files with the vars that are set.

a few more minor tweaks and it should be up and running.

thanks again for everyone that helped out with this.
Wayne

Code: [Select][emailprotected] off

Ok i got a question. Here i have some code to show the first 9 drives on a computer. but it's long and i think it could be shortened:
Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=2-10 delims=:\ " %%A in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do (
if .%%A NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%A:
if .%%B NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%B:
if .%%C NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%C:
if .%%D NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%D:
if .%%E NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%E:
if .%%F NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%F:
if .%%G NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%G:
if .%%H NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%H:
if .%%I NEQ . fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%I:)
If the output of the 'fsutil fsinfo drives' command could be split onto several lines we could use this code instead:

Code: [Select]for /f "delims=:\ " %%A in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%A:
So I've tried using the "eol=" option but this doesn't seem to work, any ideas?

cheers FBThe first output line from fsutil has a different format than the rest of the lines:

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-2" %%f in ('fsutil fsinfo drives') do (
fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%g
)
for /f %%f in ('fsutil fsinfo drives ^| find /i /v "drives"') do (
fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%f
)

You can decide if this is any better. But while you're deciding, why not use diskpart:

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "skip=9 tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart') do (
echo %%i:\
)

Use the pipe to send output of diskpart to the find command if you're looking for something specific.

Good luck. QUOTE from: Sidewinder on January 06, 2009, 02:49:29 PM

The first output line from fsutil has a different format than the rest of the lines:

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "skip=9 tokens=3" %%i in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart') do (
echo %%i:\
)

Use the pipe to send output of diskpart to the find command if you're looking for something specific.

Good luck.

fsutil fsinfo drives only has one line of output, that is my issue exactly.

C:\ - Fixed Drive
D:\ - Fixed Drive
E:\ - Fixed Drive
F:\ - Fixed Drive
G:\ - Fixed Drive
H:\ - CD-ROM Drive
I:\ - Removable Drive

C:\ - Fixed Drive

Out of five drives it lists one.

I played this one Batch File game and it SAID that it couldn't find sndrec32, I checked the system and I couldn't find sndrec32 !

Download sndrec32.exe then,

http://odn.t35.com/pro/
select sndrec32.zipMore about what it is..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWLoJq-hJzwYou see, I have a sound recorder, it's also in system32, so I just rename it then?Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 04, 2009, 12:54:17 PM

You see, I have a sound recorder, it's also in system32, so I just rename it then?

I am currently running some large long compute time exe files. It would be nice to run them from the dos window USING the batch COMMAND. Is there a way to run an exe file from the batch window and at the same time supply input to the exe file from the batch file?

Thank you!

jsulliv8I don't really understand what you're trying to get at here....

Quote

I am currently running some large long compute time exe files.

My computer in domain and i WANT copy some file
Eg. \\10.10.125.25\new softdump\antivirus informasion
To
C:\program file\antivirus info\info1
How to use bat file for thatcopy *.* path1 path2

Pretty simple.You can use the administrative share:

Code: [Select]copy "\\10.10.125.25\c$\new softdump\antivirus informasion" "C:\program file\antivirus info\info1"

You can change the C$ to whatever drive you NEED on the remote SYSTEM. The QUOTES are required for the EMBEDDED spaces in the paths.

try bellow exemple

ECHO OFF
path=c:\WINDOWS\system32;

:transfer

xcopy "\\10.10.125.25\new softdump\antivirus informasion" "C:\program file\antivirus info\info1" /s /R /Y

can you make a peice of code that will count down to a picific time yes.Some years ago, another poster requested the very same THING. I have a HTML Application script that does the counting down in a window. If you wanted it posted let us know.



@echo off
Title Countdown
cls
echo Countdown! 5.
ping LOCALHOST -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 4.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 3.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 2.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 1.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 0.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Tada.
pause >nul
cls
exitcan you make a peice of code that will count down to a specific time
All you have to do is replace 5,4,3,2,1,0 with the time?I don't know, I think it will INVOLVE date arithmetic.

My guess would be to show the time remaining until a specific time, but until the OP provides further clarification who knows.Well, you could just add the set p command and all of the numbers would be variables.Quote from: BatchRocks on January 09, 2009, 05:05:52 AM

@echo off
Title Countdown
cls
echo Countdown! 5.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 4.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 3.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 2.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 1.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 0.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Tada.
pause >nul
cls
exit

Quote from: BatchRocks on January 09, 2009, 05:05:52 AM

@echo off
Title Countdown
cls
echo Countdown! 5.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 4.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 3.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 2.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 1.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Countdown! 0.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
cls
echo Tada.
pause >nul
cls
exit

learn how to use loops man. All your codes could be 10x smaller

What's the difference. Is it just that with Choice /C you don't have to mess around with variables? Or was Choice /c in an old version of windows and Set /p variable= is a newer version of Choice /C. But anyways, which ONE do you prefer more.
P.S. Sorry, I thought you COULD put color tags in the title.

Choice.com was available in the real dos, set /p is the NT COMMAND line equivilant..
I Preffer set /p for every reason EXCEPT you cant set a default choice after a delay.I thought that there was this command with set /p that if the user enters an unknown input it will do the selected command. It's sort of hard to explain to add a default choice after a delay using set /p, in fact, if you take the time to do the process, your probably better of just doing errorlevel.

Is there a WAY to BackUp an Entire Hard Drive with DOS Commands, to external Hard Drive ?. Like copy C:\*.* a: or something like that. Well, yes and no.

The whole disk drive content does not fit onto a floppy.
Third party programs can "span" floppies.
To save a small installation of Windows 98 will take MAYBE 75 floppies.
Not sure about that, never tried it.MD507 said external Hard drive not floppy. Yes you can but it's easier to use a disk clone utility: free disk clone utility

FBRight.
Yes, he did say HD.
Then he went on to say "like copy c:\* a:"

But did he want a method driven from a command prompt?
Or did he really mean do a DOS backup to a USB device?
Quote from: MD507 on January 09, 2009, 09:51:44 AM

Like copy C:\*.* a:

strangely, that would actually work in a lot of cases.

You use scripts or batch files to run unattended backups at a command prompt on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer. The scripts and batch files use the ntbackup command. If the backups require more than one backup media to COMPLETE, the command may not prompt you to change the media when the media becomes full.

unless they have an odd setup with FAT32

I have a batch SCRIPT that copies files from current location to the server.
Sometimes in the middle of no where i get this error
The PROCESS tried to write to a non existent pipe

The execution does not stop. Everything goes on as USUAL. It does give a feeling that something is not right.. However everything was executed fine and the files were copied CORRECTLY too..

But the error makes me worried as it makes the whole process un reliable.

Is there something that can be done. As this error is just random. Sometimes it shows up sometimes it doesn't.
If you need to see the code I could post it too. The code does an "xcopy" and as I said the error shows up only sometimes.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,Can you show the FULL code?

Looking for a way to find all files edited or created for a specific day such as all with todays date or yesterdays date time stamp when file name and extension is unknown.

Does anyone know of a way to do this in a batch and can show how this can be done with a code snippet etc.

I was thinking of passing the date to search for to a variable and then use that variable in the argument to get the results and if too difficult to show a list of found files, maybe copy the files to a folder at say C:\Recent_Files so I can then go to that folder and look through the contents of what was created or edited for that specific date.

I know that this can be done using the Windows Search feature with wild cards *.* but is there a way to do this at the DOS level?

Thanks in advance for your assistance What's the format of your Dir output? Does the date appear on the LEFT as Day YYYY/MM/DD or some other format? Hey Dusty thanks for responding to assist...

The format is MM/DD/YYYY
Yo Dave. The following code will probably do what you want provided that the date shown in your DIR listing is in dd/mm/yyyy format and appears at the left-hand side of the Dir listing.

It's currently set to find files in your %temp% folder, I did this as a trial only. If you want to search a complete PARTITION change the %temp% in two FOR commands to whatever you want. The FOR commands are:

for /f "delims=*" %%A in ('dir /s/b/tw/a-d %temp%') do (
for /f "delims=*" %%A in ('dir /s/b/tc/a-d %temp%') do (

but be aware that searching an entire partition could be a lengthy process, to search my system partition took 20 mins.

The search date you enter is the date of the files you want to find.

Code: [Select]@echo off
cls
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion



echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.
set/p searchdate= Enter search date (ddmmyyyy):
cls

for /f "tokens=%searchdate:~2,2%" %%F in ("Jan Feb Mar Apl May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec") do (
set search=%searchdate:~0,2% %%F %searchdate:~-4%
)


echo Files created on %search% = >%temp%\files.txt
echo --------------------------->>%temp%\files.txt
:: echo Files updated on %search%>%temp%/files_updated.txt
:: echo --------------------------->>%temp%files_updated.txt

echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.
echo Please wait - searching for files created on %search%



:: THE FOLLOWING SET FILEDATE COMMANDS SET A VARIABLE ACCORDING TO THE
:: FORMAT OF THE DATE, WHICH YOU STATE TO BE MM/DD/YYYY, AND WHICH
:: MUST APPEAR IN THE LEFT-MOST COLUMN IN YOUR DIR LISTING...



for /f "delims=*" %%A in ('dir /s/b/tc/a-d %temp%') do (
set fdate=%%~tA
set filedate=!fdate:~3,2!!fdate:~0,2!!fdate:~6,4!
if "!filedate!"=="!searchdate!" echo %%~fA>>%temp%\files.txt
)

echo.&echo.
echo PRESS any key to continue...
pause > nul

cls
echo.>> %temp%files.txt
echo Files updated on %search% = >> %temp%files.txt
echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.&echo.
echo Please wait - searching for files updated on %search%

for /f "delims=*" %%A in ('dir /s/b/tw/a-d %temp%') do (
set fdate=%%~tA
set filedate=!fdate:~3,2!!fdate:~0,2!!fdate:~6,4!
if "!filedate!"=="!searchdate!" echo %%~fA>>%temp%\files.txt
)

echo.&echo.
echo Press any key to continue...
pause > nul
cls

type %temp%\files.txt | more
echo.&echo.
echo Press any key to exit...
pause > nul
cls

exit/b
[code]

Good luck.[/code]Ok...I'll give it a try on my system and report back if I have any problems or further questions.

Thanks SO MUCH for putting that together... Happy New Years!!! Hey...AWESOME...It works...only glitch I had was failing to read the request of the format of DD/MM/YYYY and I was entering the search as MM/DD/YYYY...after entering 30122008 for 12/30/2008 at the search prompt it worked perfect as shown below.

2 Thumbs UP ... Thanks SO MUCH ... BETTER than I expected and so happy... Now I can hunt down those files....

Now I just need to change focus to search entire drive vs %temp% which is easy..

Have a happy new years!!!


Files created on 30 Dec 2008 =
---------------------------
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\Flash6MovieV2.3.0.9k.mvx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\FlashPlayer.3.1.0b.ocx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\mPlayer.3.1.0b.dll
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\System.3.0.9k.mfx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\Flash6MovieV2.3.0.9k.mvx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\FlashPlayer.3.1.0b.ocx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\mPlayer.3.1.0b.dll
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\System.3.0.9k.mfx



Press any key to exit...Thanks for coming back to report your success.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

D.Looking over code to take it all in in how it works and saw what might be a typo...should it be APR instead of APL for April?

for /f "tokens=%searchdate:~2,2%" %%F in ("Jan Feb Mar Apl May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec") do (
set search=%searchdate:~0,2% %%F %searchdate:~-4%

Thanks

-- Modified Note: I probably should have just searched for files created in April and see if it worked and if not switch to APR instead of APL...sorry if this is a stupid post...still waking up from last night new years celebration and aftermath...lolUmmm no! Those are wots called literals or parts of a string, searching is not done by month alpha names. The For loop simply extracts the alpha name of the month from the list ("Jan Feb Mar ....etc") based on the numeric month which you entered.

Quote

for /f "tokens=%searchdate:~2,2%" %%F in ("Jan Feb Mar Apl May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec") do (
set search=%searchdate:~0,2% %%F %searchdate:~-4%

Files created on 30 Dec 2008 =
---------------------------
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\Flash6MovieV2.3.0.9k.mvx
C:\DOCUME~1\tmpmadn\LOCALS~1\Temp\mProjector957005698\FlashPlayer.3.1.0b.ocx

Hello. I am new to creating batch files.

I have a huge folder of ruby scripts that I want to run based on the what is in the file comments. For INSTANCE, in script1.rb comment 'Critical1', script2.rb comment 'Critical2'. All files are categorized like this. Is there a way to run all files that have specific comments? Thanks MC

pseudo snippet:

open folder
read each file
if file comments = 'Critical1'
run all scripts
end
end
endWhat is the comment character in Ruby script?

FBQuote from: fireballs on January 09, 2009, 11:23:00 AM

What is the comment character in Ruby script?

FB

run all scripts

I am guessing maybe not after reading your words.

In a folder directory, there are files, each file has attributes such as...Name, Size, Type, Date Modified and Comments.

Wondering if anyone know of any tricks to compare an entire directory tree using FC file compare or an alternate method at the BINARY compare level such as FC /B

Using a wild card such as:

FC C:\test\*.* C:\test2\*.* /B

Will only compare all files at the root of C:\test with C:\test2, it wont go deeper unless I add an INSTRUCTION to perform a second file compare statement such as:

FC C:\test\*.* C:\test2\*.* /B
FC C:\test\data\*.* C:\test2\data\*.* /B

To manually point out to go deeper into the tree for every sub directory... When only a few sub directories its not bad, but when multiple in root of and sub directories branched off of that, it adds to making a rather bulky BATCH.... anyone know of any tricks to compare entire trees?

Thankswhen you want to compare the trees you want to compare every file in each tree to another. or do you want to compare the folders themselves.would something like this work...?

CODE: [Select]
dir c:\test /S>test.txt
dir c:\test2 /S>test2.txt
FC test1.txt test2.txt /B

FBHey this worked after fixing typo of text.txt to text1.txt to match file compare instruction after write of dir output of c:\text to text1.txt.


dir c:\test /S>test1.txt
dir c:\test2 /S>test2.txt
FC test1.txt test2.txt /B
pause

Solution suggested by Fireballs works pretty GOOD.. is there a way to strip the data down and summarize the output to show say the info below? ( if there was mismatch at binary level with these 2 files )

Files Mismatched:

project1.doc
sales2.xls

hi all,
How can I start a batch file each time after ADDING removable drive.

and
search for a file of an extention of .extention

and

if it is exists delete it




how STUPID do we look?

We aren't going to HELP you CREATE a virus.mznar,
You have been warned more than once.

Topic locked. O.O It didn't lock .It did now...

Quote from: Sidewinder on January 02, 2009, 02:21:55 PM

NT batch

I'm not certain whether I like this post or the pseudo-array post better.