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One last tangential question:
How do you make "for" repeat until there are no more delimiters, ie.

for /f "tokens=1, *. delims=;" %%a in ("%inputFile%") do (
...
)

when *. is the repeating anychar (to cycle until no delimiters left)

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Yes! Thank you!

However, why did you put a=%%a; in quotes?
Is there reason for this syntax?
(for is the my least understood of cmd commands, so link to reference isn't discouraged . . .)

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To sucessfully make batch files from batch files, you need to employ the escape character ^ instead of echo.START /max %ComSpec% /c "%Temp%\md5.exe" use echo.START /max ^%%ComSpec^%% /c ^"^%%Temp^%%\md5.exe^" (percent signs like to be odd in batch) EDIT: just saw part about ping ...

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I have been working (per request of a challenge) on a batch script to process a text file opened with it, and eventually want to renotate the .txt into batch However, simply prep-ing the file for processing is throwing problems I have two files comp.bat and text.txt code.bat @echo off set /p inputFi...

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Is there a way to invoke keystrokes/mouse clicks in batch. I have been trying forever to make a macro/ auto keystrokes.

NOTE: must be able to output keystrokes to outside programs/prompts.

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To be more specific in the time delayed can't you

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ping 192.168.1.1 -n 1 -t 500>NUL

for 500 ms?

Or is this not exactly foolproof/anyone have problems with this?

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I have a simple "chimes.bat" in my archive;
try

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mplay32 /play /close c:\windows\media\flourish.mid

To play the flourish track from XP.
If

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mplay32 /play /close c:\JukeBox\%choice%.wav

doesn't work, try changing the file extensions... mplay doesn't play many file types.

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one last question with for /f:
I read the thread, and is there a way to use a variable as a delimiter,

and can you use everything after the delimiter?

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The set /a command can also be used when creating loops. eg. To write a text file counting from 1 to 100 named numbers write: @echo off set x=1 :start if NOT "%x%"=="101" ( echo %x%>>numbers.txt set /a x=%x%+1 goto start ) echo Done! pause NOTE: the variable can't equal zero, thu...

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Isn't this possible via telnet??

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Thank you lots nitt, but in order for all commands to work, I need to be able to remove the extension from the filename.

Is this possible?

the batch currently reads:

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@echo off
javac %1
REM this compiles .java file
java %1
REM for command to work I need to lose .java extension
pause

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What do you mean a recovery program?
Do you want to backup and potentially replace files? Or reset files to a default?
What are you looking for?

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Is there a way to write a batch file and then associate the file type with the batch file so that the batch file runs commands with the selected file name I know how to associate file types, it's the batch file part I don't understand. The goal of this is to run the following commands: @echo off jav...

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