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windows 98 comes with the windows scripting host version 1.0. you can make use of that to write vbscript.

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where does your %test% variable come from? why is there a need to change %1 in your script? you can just pass the correct variable to the batch file when invoking it. I can't really understand what you are trying to do.

you can download [url "http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/findutils.htm"]findutils from GNU[/url], then use the find command. first you create a dummy file, say we call it dummy.txt. then issue this command for .... ( find_gnu.exe /localpath -type f -name "*.pdf" -newer...

what is the actual problem you are trying to solve?

that's just about it. thumbs up for that verification.
dir can also include /a-d to skip checking directories, but that's just trivial.

I'm not convinced that traversing once is a benefit because then you have to do multiple (on average) compare operation to determine the extension and then copy the file. string comparison can be done using cmd.exe's internals. eg if/else, set , for loop etc. . Also dir is built into cmd.exe so usi...

I can't think of anything in DOS that wouldn't be significantly more complicated. Perhaps a dir /b /s piped through multiple findstr /v commands. Actually, I can't think of any way in DOS to traverse the drive once and get all the different extensions without using a temp file--which may be less ef...

UNTESTED off the top of my head: for %%a in (c d e f g) do ( for %%b in (jpg txt 3pg mp4) do ( for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%c in ('dir /b /s %%a:*.%%b) do copy "%%c" i:\%%b ) ) why not traverse the drive once , and check for extension. more...

here's a vbscript Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim drive(5) drive(0) = "c:\" drive(1) = "d:\" drive(2) = "e:\" drive(3) = "f:\" drive(4) = "g:\" For i=LBound&...

here's a vbscript Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strFolder = "c:\test" Dim ArrFolders() i=0 Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder) Go (objFolder) Sub Go(objDIR) If objDIR <> "\System Volume Information"...

assuming your files are of the same number of lines, here's a vbscript Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strFile1 = "c:\test\file.txt" strFile2 = "c:\test\file2.txt" Set objFile1 = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile1) Set objFile2 = objFS.Op...

@OP, does your files in FolderA and FolderB have the same directory structure? anyway, here's a vbscript. It doesn't assume you have same directory structure. ie, if a file anywhere under the directory FolderA exists already in FolderB (also anywhere) , then it will delete the file Set objFS = Creat...

if you can download and usegawk for windows, here's a one liner

Are you serious? It's a perfectly reasonable assumption from the original post that this will be run on 1 machine and, as a "former DOS pro" it is further reasonable to assume that the original poster can tweak the code to match his regional requirements. well, if its an assumption, then ...