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renzlo wrote:Hi aleypuppy,

Try this:

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if not exist * (echo Folder is not empty!) else (echo Folder is empty!)

-renzlo

Ehh this isn't working properly either. It says "Folder is not empty!" even if it is empty.

I got it. Thanks for the help!

Hi all,

I am trying to check if a folder contains files and I want to use but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

☺ Are u using delayed expansion ? set "User.%%~!.Passw=something^!" >nul 2>&1 net use * /delete /yes >nul 2>"%%~?" net Use /Persistent:No !Drive.%ServerReferName%! "%%~!" "!User.Administrator.Passw!" /user:Administrator I'm not too familiar with DelayedEx...

Ed Dyreen wrote:does the password contains special chars ? like !&|

Just an exclamation mark.

Hello all, I want to create a batch file to automate the process of restoring images using Imagex, but I'm running into a problem. Normally, what we (my school) would do is type net use * \\servername.domain\drive$ and then log in using domain\administrator and type in the password. What I want to d...

Yes! Thank you very much! Kudos to you!

The one that I quoted. It didn't have the "for" command in it before.

Solution to both threads you made: set exes=iexplore,notepad,chrome set /p command=^> if /I "%command:~,5%"=="start" ( for %%x in (%exes%) do ( if /I "%command:~6%"=="%%x" ( start %%x set started=1 )) if defined started (set start=) else echo Unknown Applicat...

Great! It works just the way I want it to! Thanks!

Just one more thing. I want to change "start" to something else. I tried changing it and it didn't work. Is this because of the ":~,5" or is it something else?

Hey guys, I need to know if you can put wildcards in strings. For example, I want to make an error message appear if the command has the right prefix, but an invalid extension. Here is where I want the wildcard to be inserted: set var1=iexplore set var2=notepad set var3=chrome set /p command=^> if /...

Hey guys, I need to know if a variable can have multiple values rather than just one. I'm trying to make a file that calls for a string to be "start %variable%" and the variable needs to equal more than one value. Forgive me if this is a simple question. I'm a total noob with Batch Files....

Hey guys,

I need to know if a variable can have multiple values rather than just one. I'm trying to make a file that calls for a string to be "start %variable%" and the variable needs to equal more than one value.

Forgive me if this is a simple question. I'm a total noob with Batch Files.

You could also use delayedexpansion to do the same !%n%! Do you mean you want me to do: if /I "%command%"=="%n%" echo !user%n%! I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what you want the output to look like. But it sounds like you need to escape the %. Try: echo user%%n%% Dav...

Hi! I'm having some trouble with variables. I am calling one batch file from another, and in the batch file that I call, I set variable n to a number and user%n% to "user[number]." What I need to do is echo user%n% in the main batch file but I can't figure out how to do it! I'm trying to d...