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miskox

Thanks. But it doesn't work for me. This is what I get. But your idea is good - to check length of the filename.

c:\
12345678.txt
123456789.txt
87654321.txt
test.txt

c:\

miskox

How to list only files with filenames of 8-characters in length? @echo off break>12345678.txt break>87654321.txt break>test.txt break>123456789.txt echo dir ????????.txt dir ????????.txt echo -------------- echo dir "????????.>txt" dir "????????.>txt" echo -------------- Output: dir ????????.txt 17....

miskox

Wouldn't it be easier for you to use a temporary file and process this temporary file with FOR loop?

Saso

miskox

Try this: @echo off set "AdapterName=Wi-Fi" :: set currently connected ethernet as variable FOR /f "tokens=3*" %%a IN ('netsh interface show interface ^| findstr /v "VMware" ^| sort /r /+48 ^| findstr "Connected" ^| findstr "Ethernet"') DO (SET "AdapterName=%%b") :: disconnect LAN if connected IF "%...

miskox

As Squashman wrote you don't have a match so variable AdapterName remains undefined. Looks like it does not work if variable AdapterName is not defined at all. Looks like IF fails if variable is not defined. Add set AdapterName=doesnotexist to the beginning of the code. set AdapterName=doesnotexist ...

miskox

Try this:

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@echo off
:loop
echo Attempting Time Sync...
w32tm /resync | find /i "The command completed successfully." >nul || (echo Sync Not Working, Retrying...&goto loop)
echo Success!!!!!
pause
exit

You should treat the 'echo' and 'goto' as one command. You need parentheses ().

Saso

miskox

Very good. Tried and works. But there is a typo:

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:AppendFileLineToFile-args

Missing 'S' at the end:

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if "[%~4]" NEQ "[]" ( shift & GoTo :AppendFileLineToFile-arg )

Saso

miskox

So, did you try it? Does it work? Start here: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html Escape Character ^ Escape character. Adding the escape character before a command symbol allows it to be treated as ordinary text. These characters which normally have a special meaning can be escaped and then treated ...

miskox

Thank you all for all the info! I really appreciate it. I will go thru these posts in the following hours/days and post back.

Saso

(as mentioned I've been offline for some time)

miskox

Been offline for a while.

Maybe you should remove this line

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Rem (if command errors) || (exec this command)

or add ^ infront of the problematic characters (, ), |.

Maybe there are more.

Try this and let us know.

Saso

miskox

Thanks a lot T3rry. But I think you should go back some more steps and start with the basics. I tried to understand this batch/macro you posted - too complicated. No luck. We would need something like 'hello world' and then go from there. Something like this: @echo off set helloworld=echo Hello Worl...

miskox

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copy file.txt folder\file1.txt
copy file.txt folder\file2.txt
copy file.txt folder\file3.txt
copy file.txt folder\file4.txt

I wanted to use FOR but you take a look: viewtopic.php?p=38525#p38525

Saso

miskox

I didn't understand a thing Jeb wrote.

I tried to learn how to make/use macros. No luck. A 'macro for dummies' should be posted by someone who can do it.

Saso

miskox

2B OR NOT 2B=FF

Saso

miskox

Looks like wmic returns an extra empty line and this is what you get.

Saso

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