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- 30 Oct 2012 21:55
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
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Re: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
Right now I'm focusing on trying to research what each line of the script is doing (I majored in Networking with a focus on routing and switching so I'm mostly self taught in terms of coding) but let me see if I got this straight (and please correct me if and when I am wrong as I truly do want to le...
- 30 Oct 2012 21:06
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6788
Re: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
Thank you for your input, it is appreciated. To be honest I am not very familiar with windows scripting. Your initial script you provided, what is the premise behind it and do you know of any good online resources I could use to better understand it? Now that I know it can be done via a script I am ...
- 30 Oct 2012 20:55
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6788
Re: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
Assuming the line count never changes for that bit-length I suppose I could utilize multiple set statements but If there is a way to force the carriage returns to be ignored for the user entry that would be preferable to stream-line this a bit.
- 30 Oct 2012 20:46
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6788
Re: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
We can suggest different ways to do something if the task is clear and limitations spelled out. I feel like I pretty much covered that with If I just type some test text in the first prompt, everything goes smoothly, but DKIM private keys aren't just one line. They also have character limits per li...
- 30 Oct 2012 20:08
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6788
Re: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
I'm aware that it contains multiple lines. What I want to know is if there is a way to wrap an entire entry in something or a command to say "all these lines are one entry". For example when working in some DNS servers if you type key1=rsa; p=;lsfja98233lndsfaj\s;fjj without explicitly wra...
- 30 Oct 2012 17:12
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6788
User input: Problems with pasting multi-line strings
Hello everyone, First post here and fairly new to putting batch files together and up front, thank you for any help I receive. I work for an ESP and regularly set up DKIM records for clients. In an attempt to automate some of the tedious stuff I want to put together a batch. I have the entire file w...