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Options at the beginning apply to all sources and the destination. However, you can also define it for every source separately as well as for the destination. In this case you better really define /a or /b for every file as such options are seemingly taken over for the rest of the command if you lea...

The first question that I have is WHY do you need FOR /R. Do you really need to search the file recursively in subdirectories? I'm asking because ... ECHO The file size of %DSPEC%\%FNAME% is %FSIZE% bytes ... indicates you already know that the full name of the file is %DSPEC%\%FNAME%. If so, FOR /R...

There is no way to do that in Batch only. I remember a few snippets I wrote for this purpose where Batch calls PowerShell which contains C# code that wraps the Win32 API ... Sounds like a mess and is a mess. https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8822 https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtop...

Great investigation as always, jeb!
However, you probably don't believe my first reaction when I saw the topic
Like: "Wait a second ... What the ...? I could have also used anything else but PATH in all the years that I write batch code? D'oh "

That's great. I suppose that the ESC#3 and ESC#4 change font sequences works only in Windows 11 (I have Windows 10). Unfortunately that seems to be the case. This is how it looks like in a Win 11 console. double_height_width.png The way I write assembler code is simpler and more direct, similar to C...

@Saso I thought it was about printf as you asked in this thread. However, no problem. Just create an escape character and assign it to a variable as you already know: for /f %%i in ('echo prompt $E^|cmd') do set "ESC=%%i" echo %ESC%#3 Some text - displayed with double height and double width. echo %...

Works for me, Saso. printf "%c#3Double Height (implies Double Width)\n%c#4Double Height (implies Double Width)\n" 27 27 Tested in the prompt of Windows Terminal. In a batch script you have to double the percent signs as always. And I think to make it also work in a console window, Antonio would have...

Yeah, to be clear - SS64 is a pretty good reference. The official MS docs don't tell you about such effects of GOTO. However, I still think that "bug" is the wrong wording here. Just an example of how I understand it: @echo off goto label&echo FOO :label echo BAR pause FOO is never printed as the GO...

Fortunately you have to use %~n0 in your example. Similarly, it's already been the source for headaches of a lot of people whenever they named the script file the same as any command used in the code

Steffen

SS64 is for sure not the official docs. So you may ask the author of the site to disambiguate their statement.
IMO it refers to & and && following a GOTO command. However, I would consider this to be expected behavior rather than a bug.

Steffen

I'm not entirely sure what your expectation is.
In your second example the folder E:\Dir is backed up into the root of G: as you specified. /MIR implies /PURGE which deletes all directories that are not in the source. So what do you think should have happened instead?

Steffen

Thanks Saso! As this is about predicting the appearance of strings I should have provided some examples and screenshots. So in the attached zip is a little code where the pictures below are based on. Tested on Win 11. The font is Cascadia Code. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

is there a way to make 69 as a variable manipulation without introducing a new variable? No. FWIW in your initial post you wrote "if the line is less than 70". Was that meant to be "<= 70" rather than "< 70"? %DS2%-1 didnt work inside !!, just for my learning purpose Because SET /A is for calculati...

Not tested: Note that you have to update your DS2 value to 45 as it defines the number of characters after DS1.

Steffen

What? This little tool measures the display width of strings in the Windows Terminal / Console. It is basically a copy of the recently revised code for this purpose in Microsoft's open source repository. All credits go to their Terminal team. I used this code in order to actually get the same result...