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Hello all, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my menu setup to work. When I select a choice, it just gives me the "Error. Please select a valid choice" text that I setup. Can someone please tell me what's going wrong? Thanks! Here is a block of code that has the problem. :mainMenu cls ech...

To find the user @ECHO OFF ECHO %USERNAME% ECHO %USERPROFILE% PAUSE To find the location of the batch file @ECHO OFF ECHO %~DP0 PAUSE Okay so I get the first one. That make sense. But when I try the second one, it doesn't work. I type in "echo %~DPO" but it just returns with %~DPO. Any he...

What kind of commands are you looking for exactly?

Hey guys, Can anyone tell me in Windows 7/Vista, how to find the name of the current user and where a certain file is located? For example: I need to know what the person's username is so I can find the C:\Users\(Name) Also, I need to know where the file that is executing (as in my batch file) where...

Also one more problem. This piece of code does not set it as the variable. set /p User_Settings_1=< C:\Comp_Diag\User\User_Settings_1.txt set /p User_Settings_2=< C:\Comp_Diag\User\User_Settings_2.txt set /p User_Settings_3=< C:\Comp_Diag\User\User_Settings_3.txt In User_Settings_1.txt I have the wo...

Incredibly helpful. Thank you. But does using %NF% work with echo Hello!%NF%How are you!? > document.txt??
Will that work?

Thanks! I'll be sure to download it! But I have a question about on of your previous enteries. @echo off set NLM=^ set NL=^^^%NLM%%NLM%^%NLM%%NLM% echo I love pie!%NL%A new line is here! > toast.txt In this, what is the whole set NLM=^ and set NL stuff about? It confuses me and I would like to know ...

Well thats simple... Haha thank you.

Okay. So say I have a file, "passwors.txt". This file contains the "Admin" password. Can my program,
read the contents of the file,
compare it to an existing variable,
and execute accordingly?

That was very helpful. But one thing I am still confused on is this. By saying "echo Hello > document.txt", does that also create the document if it doesn't yet exist?

And by "read" I meant can it search for keywords in the document and execute accordingly?

Okay. So I know how to use the set /p command on a basic level of options. For example, =================================== echo 1 echo 2 echo 3 set /p choice=(Pick a number!) if not '%choice%'==set choice=%choice=~0,1% if '%choice%'=='1' goto 1 if '%choice%'=='2' goto 2 if '%choice%'=='3' goto 3 ec...