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Well, runas.exe doesn't write it's output to the standard stream or error stream, so it can't be redirected that way. This can't be correct, I tested it with Win10 10.0.17134.1184 and I can redirect it without problems. And also with Win7 6.1.7601 the redirection works. In both cases the content of...

How it fails, what is the error message or the unexpected behavior?

Do you can write files in the current directory at all?

Did you test it on the command line or somewhere inside a batch file?

Which Wndows version do you use?

Hi avizee,

I tested It works, the complete text is in test.txt.
The only difference to your first example, is the enclosing of echo %date% into quotes

Hi Dave, interessting. 1) Special characters listed in cmd help ... If completion is enabled with the /F:ON switch, the two control characters used are Ctrl-D for directory name completion and Ctrl-F for file name completion. :o Dind't know this, nor read this before. But CTRl-F doesn't work for me ...

Hi Meerkat, the parenthesis are necessary in macros, when you want to use the %\n% for multiple lines. That's because a raw line feed outside parenthesis stops the parser and the remaining stuff will be dropped. You can't compare it to the code from Snake.bat, as the code you shown is part of a func...

It's possible to expand a variable, begining with an asterix.
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No, it still works. At least with Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.1006] By using some nested FOR /F loops, I accidentally activated the debug mode. @echo off set "FOR_CMD=FOR /F "tokens=1-31" %%1 in ("jeb jeb") DO ^" %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CMD% %FOR_CM...

@jfl Nice ECHO! macro I think 4) is useful when you want the definition of a macro to change depending on the state of some variable, for example if DEBUG is defined (enabled) or not. It allows incorporation of conditional text without creation of temp variables or staged definition 1- Me too, nice...

There is still hope
Last week, I accidentially activated the debug outputs on Win10, by nesting some FOR /F loops (some hundreds).

Tomorrow, I will try to search the batch files and reproduce it.

Hi, 1) Default values undefined variables are more or less empty variables, but only inside batch files. The difference for batch files and command line echo var: %undefinedVar% Output when executed on the command line: var: %undefinedVar% Output when executed in a batch file var: But even in batch ...

I found one useful behaviour for the "missing stack entry". It works nearly the same as a GOTO, but there is one difference when it's in a command block or there are appended commands. A GOTO discards the other commands of a block and all appended commands (by &) @echo off echo [%0]: Before calling ...

Hi siberia-man, thanks for the interesting link, I was able to understand the posts, thanks to google translate. You described the ? and * for labels, there both characters works as expected, like any other charcter. But the key difference is using them not in a lable, instead use them in a called f...

Hi, while refactoring my macro library, I found an unknown behaviour of the CALL/return file logic. :!: It fails when in the called batch file path at least one question mark or asterix is embedded. It seems a little bit related to the (goto) 2> nul glitch. First a sample, showing the normal behavio...

Hi sst, I'm impressed by your analysis/debugging. :o :!: It explains so much. Now, I understand why the REM trick to gather the arguments works so good, and why it fails with multiline input. The REM parser will read the first token(GeToken) and compares it against "/?". If the token is "/?" it sets...

Hi Penpen,

you are right. The Call is superfluous, I cpoied it from macro code.

@GCRaistlin
No it's not possible to use delayed expansion to replace a single bang, only when the bang is precede with other charactets.