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I have a variable %file% which contains a filename including drive and path. Now I want to replace the extension of this filename (whatever it is) and append .png to it. If the filename would be stored in a numeric system variable %1 I could write something like set newfile=%~dpn1.png But what if th...

How can I (from cmdline!) rename parts of filename (and leave the remaining part untouched)? Simplified example: Assume I have the following files: test aabb cc 13412542552.pdf second aabb cc 324236236.pdf other aabb cc 2345325.pdf Now I want to replace the pattern " aabb cc " by " (newpattern 2019)...

Assume I have 3 text files: 1st file "searchpattern.txt" which contains one or multiple text lines with a text pattern to search 2nd file "insertpattern.txt" which contains one or multiple text lines with a text pattern to insert 3rd file "targetfile.txt" which may contain the searchpattern and wher...

For simplicity lets talk about a simple command- When I enter the following command at the CmdPrompt: vol D: the volume name is shown. But what it I want to use the output in an echo command? Lets say I want to code something like echo volume of D=vol D: does not work. How else can I achieve it? Or ...

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Assume I have a variable with a double quote enclosed string inside. Most simplified by a manual assigment like set myfile="D:\foo\bar\aaa\bbb.txt" How can I most easily replace the two enclosing " by ' ? How can I most easily replace the embedded single backslashes \ by double backslashes? Afterwar...

Wehn I issue from a DOS batch file the following command:

echo foobar >myfile.txt

then myfile.txt will always be created as UCS-2 Little Endian based file

How can I tell the DOS batch execution to create an UTF-8 file instead?

Peter

Assume I have (simplified) three files in a directory: 111.txt 222.txt 333.txt Now I click and mark (step by step) the files in the sequence 333.txt then 111.txt and finally 222.txt Afterwards I dragged the three marked files on a DOS batch shortcut on desktop for further processing. Unfortunately t...

@CirothUngol Thank you for your suggestion. You are right: Finally I want to remove all empty folders. But at first I want to list them only. Unfortunately your code produces an error: File Not Found ')ELSE' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Whats ...

Assume I want to find all dirs below a certain top node folder (e.g. D:\data\logs\) which are emtpy?

"recursively" means if a dir contains only empty dirs (and no files) it should be considered as empty as well.

How can code this in a dos batch file?

Peter

From within a ODS batch script I call/start an external program similar to ... D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\NetTraffic.exe Echo after call .... Yes, the external program is successfully started but the script does NOT continue to run. The Echo statement is never executed. Is this normal? That would mean I always ...

How do I check (from within a DOS batch script) if a certain program (with "Imagename" is myprog.exe") is currently running? I fiddled around with the built-in command "tasklist". But for example tasklist /FI "Imagename eq myprog.exe" echo el=%errorlevel% yields always 0 I need a return code or retu...

Sorry I have to revert back to this problem. At first thank you for the suggestions so far. But I am still fiddling around with the batch script. Originally I want to use the well known free cmdline tool ImageMagic available from here (scroll down for Win release): http://www.imagemagick.org/script/...

Assume I have the folowing simplified code: set PROG=D:\tools\graphic tools\v7\ for /R . %%F in (.jpg) do ( for /F usebackq %%L in (`"%PROG%myprog.exe" ...... %%F`) do set %%L .... ) At first mind the blank inside the path. When I run this batch script I got the folowing error: 'D:\tools\graphic' is...

From within a DOS batch script I want to check whether a certain remote mailbox (e.g. from gmail.com or hotmail.com) contains new messages. The messages should NOT be downloaded. I need just the information if there are some new message available. The connection should be established through STARTTL...