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Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this?

My fingers slipped and I performed a double pastng of what I had in the clipboard at that time This is the code I have @echo off cls echo/ echo Info about what the script will do echo/ setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion rem Get an ASCII CR (13) character for /F %%a in ('copy /Z "%~F0" NUL') do set "CR=...

I see there are some options in doing this, thank you But as they seem too complex for my limited skills, for now I will most likely be using something simple as this: @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion :: Set the length of the countdown: set LENGTH_OF_THE_INITIAL_COUNTDOWN=2 :: Initial messa...

Yes, I am sure; this is the code cut out from UTF-8 BAT file saved on my volume @echo off cls echo/ echo Info about what the script will do echo/ setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion rem Get an ASCII CR (13) character for /F %%a in ('copy /Z "%~F0" NUL') do set "CR=%%a" rem Create a file with *just* 3 sp...

I also just now tried going back [https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10871&p=69159#p68888] and after all settling on seeing 3 2 1 But I get 3 2 1 with this script utilizing the >>set<< trick @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion echo. echo. Info about what the script will do echo....

It produces
and leaves that spacesFile.txt file behnd

Is it possible at all using just a single window created by BAT or PS1 script to see one rather long countdown while in the background the very same file will be firing up other commands? And if the user decided to interrupt the whole process to be able to close that window thus effectively stopping...

Due to not being able to come up with a properly working BAT , I decided to use this PS1 script instead Write-Host "Line of text at the very top" Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host ...

[...] I need to be able using physically keyboard to interrupt that countdown before further steps are executed - but using countdown in form of timeout makes >> w << incapable of interacting with CMD window This is an alternative method timeout /t 5 | findstr /R ".0$" > nul && goto continue || exi...

The Windows Console [conhost.exe] it is supposedly not possible to see digits of a countdown at the bottom of window while also retaining ability to scroll it up an not have the view being thrown back down after passing of another second - but the new Windows Terminal [windowsterminal.exe] however w...

I meant: how do I limit scrolling down to just where the counting takes place? Because your script makes it possible to scroll down through excess of empty lines I reworked both test into this script # Win32 API wrapper class Add-Type Console -NS Win32 -MemberDefinition @' [DllImport("kernel32.dll")...

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Sebastian42 wrote: ↑

22 Sep 2023 03:26

I have no trouble 'manually' deleting files with the extension .jsonlz4, preceded by '==
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Maybe it is the cause behind also your BAT scripts not being able to do this task?

I have managed to co come up with a partial solution This script $COUNTDOWN = 3 Write-Host Write-Host " Endng in" Write-Host Write-Host " $COUNTDOWN" Write-Host Write-Host " seconds" Write-Host Start-Sleep -Seconds $COUNTDOWN Write-Host Write-Host Write-Host " Script has been executed" Write-Host Wr...

Thank you; this works as a standalone test PS1 file

But how do I incorporate this into that test script of mine from my initial post?

Maybe it has something to do with these findings viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10878