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Based on your initial netsh output you do not have any interfaces that are "Connected" and are "Ethernet" What output are expecting when nothing matches?

Test if you have shifted out all the arguments before you goto the loop.

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SHIFT
IF NOT "%~1"=="" GOTO loop

And the first two rules of debugging a batch file.
1) Do not run the batch file with your mouse. Open up a command prompt and run it from there.
2) Use ECHO ON at the top of your script.

Robocopy has multiple return codes.
https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy-exit.html

Well you have delayed expansion enabled. It would help if you used it.

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if !string:~%counter%,1! EQU 1

Jeb's MagicEcho might help
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Surprised your searching did not find any of these links. It is right on the main DosTips.com site library. https://www.dostips.com/?t=Snippets.FileSize As well as discussed in several threads. Here is one of them. https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9274 No clue why you would assign the s...

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%systemroot% is a variable which means you need double expansion.

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if "%%~a"=="DataBasePath" CALL set "hostspath=%%b"

Thank you for the reply... If I add ^ infront of the problematic characters (, ), | What would the line look like? I'm not familiar with that character. Isn't that line a remark? Why would the cmd interpreter care what characters are in a remark? Thank you, Are you saying you are not familiar with ...

mataha wrote: ↑
29 Feb 2024 16:24
Escaping the quotes shouldn't be necessary:
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for /f delims^= %%g in ('""D:\some\path\with blanks inside\myprog.exe" -p "......" %1"') do set "....."

We have a discussion about it here on DosTips. I will see if I can dig up that thread.

OK I see now. I just had another issue when the fist line string has one space at the end. the folder will become 5 digits Schemes_to_Sign_for_829501 the folder will be 29501. Anyway to cut off the space before set it as folder? I bet if you use the sites search capability you will find all kinds o...

I should have known we answered this question before.
Compare timestamps of two files (seconds too)

An extra set of escaped double quotes would have done the trick.

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for /F "Tokens=*" %%G in (' ^""D:\some\path\with blanks inside\myprog.exe" -p "......" %1^"') do set "....."

This will not get seconds. Only has minute precision.

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for %%G in ("aaaa.dat") do for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/: " %%H IN ("%%~tG") do set "aaaats=%%J%%H%%I%%K%%L"

Thanks a lot! Antonio! Yes works perfefectly! Just a quick question for this line for /F "delims=\" %%a in ('findstr "_ ." source.txt') do ( So what is this 'findstr "_ ."? the rest I can understand.... Thanks again! Will You could help yourself by reading the help for the FINDSTR command. Use spac...

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