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Use the DIR or FOR commands to find the files you want. The FIND command is used to find string inside text files.

At the top of your script use the ECHO command to turn off verbose output of other command.

@echo off

Hi, You wrote me : The value of the variable option is not a valid command. Why is it not a valid command, as to call a batch macro the usual form is %macro% ? In this case why is %option% form not valid ? Thanks for answer Insert, Delete and Update are NOT VALID commands. They do not EXIST! Try ty...

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set app=%app:KILLERS=%

So what do you think you have to change in this line of code?

bocsi6 wrote: ↑
09 Nov 2018 09:44
Hi, Aacini,
You wrote as a simple batch macro :

set /P option=Enter the desired option [Insert,Delete,Update]:
goto %option%

Why did you have to use
Goto %option%
instead of simply
%option% ?

The value of the variable option is not a valid command.

Hi, I tried this with the local path, it worked perfectly fine. But when given a share drive path, it shows me an error as Error: UNC paths (\\machine\share) are not supported. here is What I am trying. SET "NASS=\\abc" SET "TEMPDIR=!NASS!\CU\OR" forfiles /p "%TEMPDIR%\OR" /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c Del ...

I always use an UPPERCASE G for my FOR variable. The FOR variable is case sensitive. It also helps with visually identifying which letters are the command modifiers and which one is the FOR variable.

FORFILES

You were close.
You can do this two ways.

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FOR %%G IN (*.avi *.mov) do .....

or

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FOR /F "delims=" %%G IN ('dir /a-d /b *.avi *.mov') do....

You should using a scripting language that has a native method to read and write XML. Vbscript, Jscript or Powershell.

Just tried your code and made the first line of the code be a TITLE statement. Then put more TITLE statements in the code.
The Window Title changed every time.

Squashman wrote: ↑
02 Nov 2017 08:50
Well it is technically November 3rd in Australia......

Still have not forgotten about you! Hope you are in a good place living out eternity and partying like its 1999.

Thank you, I might look into those things in the future as I am currently focused on adding new features. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. I would suggest you take the advice and learn to program it more efficiently before adding more features. Your code is already a couple hundred ...

And one line of code if you call out to Powershell.

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powershell "(Get-Date).ToString('TODAY IS dddd dd MMMM yyyy')"

Two options for you in this code. Use the question mark as the delimter or use the forward slash as the delimiter. @echo off FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=?" %%G IN (a.txt) do echo %%G echo ---------------------------------------------- FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/" %%G IN (a.txt) do echo %%G//%%H/%%I/%%J/...

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