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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 ...

This seems highly dependent on the Windows 10 version:

In version 10.0.14393, this works, but the cmd shell hangs in the end.

In version 10.0.18362, this does not work (ie. there's no debug output, only the echo %%1 output), but the cmd shell silently exits.

OK, I was showing the principle, not the exact code you need. In your case, that would be: dir /b "C:\TIER1\TIER2" | findstr /r . >NUL 2>NUL if errorlevel 1 ( rem The C:\TIER1\TIER2 directory is empty echo There were no files or folders to be deleted. ) else ( rem The C:\TIER1\TIER2 directory contai...

Hi Steffen Your DirEvents.exe tool is impressively small, and it works nicely, except for one detail: How do you stop it? I tried Enter, ESC, Ctrl-C, and many other key combinations, without success. And I could not find any clue in the source. Eventually I had to kill it in Task Manager, which is n...

Thanks jeb for these nice tricks! The first one really baffled me :shock: Five years ago, I thought I knew everything about batch, and I keep learning new tricks here! :D About trick 3): It's worth defining a macro for easy reuse: @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set ECHO!=FOR /F "tokens=1...

Use PowerShell's get-service to get the correspondence between the one-word service name used by the net.exe and sc.exe commands, and the more descriptive name used by PowerShell service management commands. Then simply use 'net start NAME' or 'net stop NAME' in your batch to start or stop the servi...

I first tried 'if not exist subdir\* echo empty', but this does not work :-( So the solution is to list the sub-folder contents, and check for the presence of anything using 'findstr /r .'. The result is in findstr's %ERRORLEVEL%. Ex: C:\JFL\Temp\test>md Empty C:\JFL\Temp\test>md HasFile C:\JFL\Temp...

Getting 500 server error messages each time I either edit or submit a post. Anyone else getting these? Tried to edit the OP twice subsequent to the first edit and it failed. Yes, I got these as well when I tried posting a message about my updated version of which.exe last week. I retried several ti...