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Call Set "_dummy=%%_cities:!_substr!=%%"

You expect someone to go through all that code? You would be villafied with extreme prejudice on other forums. How about you post a minimal but complete and verifiable example.

Just reading the online help. It says that -X is to exclude file names. Does not say anything about folders. I would say make a file list of all the files in that folder then use that file with the exclude option. According to this SuperUser post the paths have to be relative. So you just use -xr!ar...

That is a loaded question. You need to better explain what your real task is and why you think you need to use CMD /k. Because you seem to want to use CMD /K, this would be your only option. @ECHO OFF cmd.exe /k "winver &exit" PAUSE So you need to explain why you wouldn't just run this? @ECHO OFF cm...

You can also just type the CD command.

The FORFILES command is grabbing files and folders. When the script tries to delete a folder it will prompt you with that. It will not prompt to delete files.

Why do you need to do this from the command prompt? Microsoft created a tool to boot from USB drives to install Windows. Why not use that. It has been around since Windows Vista if memory serves me.

Been covered dozens of times on the forum if you search.

Put a 1 in front of the number so that it become 108. Then subtract 1. Then substring the last two positions.

I'd also like to chime in with my problem, maybe you can help a total newbie out: I have a dir with several csv files, each named after a company. Now I want to add that filename (minus the .csv) as the first colum inside the csv (which can have different number of rows, from 4 to 600+). The delimi...

My teaching style is to teach a man to fish. It really helps to know all the commands you can use within a batch file. You can type help at a command prompt to get most of them. H:\>help For more information on a specific command, type HELP command-name ASSOC Displays or modifies file extension asso...

I would assume you are aware of the %date% and %time% variables. But those are both region dependent and may not output the same on everyone's computer. So the other option is to use WMIC to get the date and time because it always outputs in the same format on all computers regardless of region sett...

When file and folder names have spaces in them, what are you supposed to do?

I thought we had a thread going on the forum about creating a UTF-8 file with a BOM. I can't find it.

If you have control over the code why would you assign the double quotes to the variable in the first place. That has never been a best practice on this forum.