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I was not aware it was possible to do one-line HTML applications like this. Nice! If you don't find a native HTA way, maybe it'd be possible to return the user choice number as the HTML Application exit code, then send that to the clipboard using an outside tool? There's an example on how to return ...

For every line you'd need to do some complex manipulation, like: WriteLine > PingLog2.txt type PingLog.txt >> PingLog2.txt del PingLog.txt ren PingLog2.txt PingLog2.txt Is this worth it? Instead, I suggest that you consider using a Windows port of the Unix tail tool. For example get tail.exe from Un...

Same for me: - Crashes on company-managed computer with Windows 10.0.16299.1625 - Works fine on another one managed by me, with Windows 10.0.19041.84 On the system that crashes, there's an error saying "Console Window Host has stopped working." So apparently the problem is with conhost.exe, not with...

This works great indeed!

Now, what would be very nice is to find a way to redirect stdin/stdout/stderr from the elevated shell, back into the original shell.
(Like Unix' sudo does!)

This is due to the way the child cmd.exe instance processes double quotes on its command line. (And it does not matter if that child instance is invoked using single quotes ' or back ticks `.) Extract from the cmd /? help screen : 1. If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters ...

The list of tasks running in Windows is very long, and keeps changing all the time. Even if you don't start or stop anything yourself. It'll be much more reliable to filter lists before comparing them. Also, wait for a while before getting the second list, to give time to Firefox to start. @echo off...

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2. What is the difference between bitsadmin and bitsadmin.exe? If you don't provide the extension, cmd.exe will try all the extensions in enviroment variable PATHEXT, and use the first program that matches. Could it be that you named your test script "bitsadmin.bat" ? In that case, this explains wh...

Hi Ovisele, It's probably feasible in Batch, but it'll be very hard. I'd recommend that you use a more powerful language for that. (JScript, PowerShell, or Python) If you really want to use Batch, and if you're sure the _ and . characters can never appear within one of the filename components, you c...

About completion characters: On my laptop (Windows version 10.0.19037.1), the Tab key already does file completion in cmd windows, even if you don't use cmd /F. And Shift+Tab cycles backwards. Looking in the registry, I see that both HKLM CompletionChar values contain 0x40, and both HKCU values cont...

Nice script indeed.
Actually, the only thing that's really missing is another option to close an open block. (The - sign maybe?)
With that, we'd be able to generate tables, etc.

There is another API supporting their "gfm" extensions. See their Markdown Rest API page. I chose to use the API using just the "raw" markdown, because this is the one used for all *.md files in code repositories. (This raw markdown already includes some extensions versus plain markdown, such as tab...

I've published on my github SysToolsLib library a new batch file called md2h.bat . This batch converts a Markdown text file into an HTML file, and displays it in a Web browser. This is useful if you're editing Markdown files, and want to know what they will look like once pushed into GitHub. For tha...

You're right, I had not thought about recursive cases like this where different part of the command string are parsed different number of times. Indeed it's necessary to invoke my routines multiple times, with growing strings: C:\JFL\Temp>Library.bat -te "echo a&echo b" off _INITIAL=echo a&echo b # ...

There are many cases where batch strings are parsed multiple times before being used. For example when you build a command line from multiple parts, or pass arguments to a subroutine. Each time it's tricky if the command or arguments contain special characters like ^ & | ! etc... In that case, it's ...