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I have a script that does just that: ipcfg.bat , part of my System Tools Library ipcfg.bat has lots of options. But the idea is to select only "interesting" network information. By default, it outputs just the information for the active NICs, as you're trying to do. Examples: C:\JFL\Temp>ipcfg -l Et...

None of the Microsoft ping programs (ping, pathping, psping) output: Enter the ping options: I tried that on several of my systems, with various Windows versions, and indeed none of them contain that string. Ex: C:\JFL\Temp>strings C:\Windows\System32\ping.exe | findstr /i please C:\JFL\Temp>string...

That's a neat tool, I like it :) Thanks! I have a question as to how option -a is intended to work. If I run 'which -a cmd.exe' I was expecting that more than one file was found on my Win10 x64. Also if I run it in the WOW64 subsystem, it reports that cmd.exe was found in System32, which isn't wron...

Announcing an updated version of my which.exe tool, for searching which programs will run at the command.com, cmd.exe, or PowerShell prompts. This which.exe program strives to implement the best of both Unix which and Windows where.exe, and a bit more! which_v1.12.zip Note about the new option -i in...

Arriving a bit late in this thread, but hopefully with a few interesting links: The console always works in UCS-2 mode, whatever the code page you're using. That is is records 16-bits Unicode version 1 characters in each cell. Ascii or non-ascii is irrelevant: Ascii is just the first 128 Unicode cha...

The ^ escaping works outside of quoted strings. Inside quoted strings, ^ is a normal character. ^""" passes """ to the findstr.exe program "^"" passes "^"" to the findstr.exe program Same thing for the ^| character in your first example. It's inside a quoted string, so 1) The ^ is useless, as | bein...

Actually triple language Batch+PowerShell+C# macros. Impressive!

And the performance is actually better than what I feared. (About 0.5s per macro invocation on my system.)
This opens up infinite possibilities with all the .NET framework at hand.

autoexec.bat was a feature of MS-DOS. Are you still using MS-DOS? Windows XP and later are not based on MS-DOS, and do not run autoexec.bat by default. (Unless maybe you have changed the Windows Command Prompt's startup command to something like: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k "C:\autoexec.bat") Anywa...

You have an odd number of quotes in your request. So everything that follows the third one is passed to findstr as a single argument. To fix that, you have to ^escape one of the quotes, so that cmd.exe parses it as a normal character: C:\JFL\Temp>C:\JFL\Temp>findstr /C:^""" file.txt Some more text w...

jeb wrote: ↑

11 Feb 2019 05:19

BUT the scanner is able to set the new file position to the wrong position after a label is found

Here, it seems that the line scanner simply assumes that a line cannot be longer than 512 bytes.
And whatever follows is just another line.

@jeb and @dbenham: Bravo, you've progressed beyond my wildest dreams, while I was busy on other things. The magic of the Internet :D the scanner is able to set the new file position to the wrong position after a label is found :!: Yes, that's actually the initial failure mode I had, with a call endi...

Hi, I had a crazy problem this morning after doing a minor fix of my AutoRun.cmd script for XP. The fix was working fine. Before committing the updated version, I added a comment in the file header. One last test running 'AutoRun -l' and... BOOM :x Of course, I first thought that AutoRun.cmd itself ...

An interesting application of previous work on this forum: Create a file called "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\AutoRun.cmd.d\pid.bat", containing: @echo off call :getPID PID exit /b :getPID [RtnVar] :: :: Store the Process ID (PID) of the currently running script in environment variable RtnVar. :: If called wit...

@jeb I had severe difficulties distinguishing "normal" cmd.exe invokations from for /f invokations. First, on my system, in the normal case, CMDCMDLINE does not just contain "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe". Sometimes it is: set "CMDCMDLINE="C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" " (Notice the additional quotes ...

Hi jahwi, I tried your bget package manager last month, and found it very interesting. Since then I've been working on a way to manage multiple independent AutoRun files, that create batch variables and macros for all new cmd.exe windows. This management is done by an AutoRun.cmd script. I thought t...