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just discover interesting issue, the cmdwiz 'setbuffersize' behave differently when script is started as a command from existing console window, and when is doubleclicked in windows explorer. But only on _ONE_ of my two machines.... @echo off set rows=27 set cols=90 echo Read current settings c:\uti...

Squashman wrote: ↑

15 Mar 2024 12:47

%systemroot% is a variable which means you need double expansion.

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if "%%~a"=="DataBasePath" CALL set "hostspath=%%b"

Thanks Sqashman, you are right, it does work with call.

trying to read path of hosts file but it does not work in script @echo off for /f "tokens=1,3" %%a in (' reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters" /V "DataBasePath" ') do ( if "%%~a"=="DataBasePath" set "hostspath=%%b" ) if exist "%hostspath%\hosts" (echo yes) else (echo no...

If you think you need the SYSTEM account for something, you're doing something wrong. I do not found any other way to start batch script as a scheduled task to stay COMPLETELLY hidden, than run it under SYSTEM account. If you need more than 254 characters for a single command, you're also doing som...

psexec is a testing tool only in my case, in reality I need my batch is started as a scheduled task running under SYSTEM account. This failed, so I start testing with psexec and found this issue. My problem arise when trying to start powershell oneliner inside of batch script, which need full path t...

thank you both, will check your solutions!

Just found that its imposible to write more than 254 characters to the console window under SYSTEM account. Reproducable step by step - open cmd window as Administrator - perform psexec.exe -s cmd.exe - type whoami, get nt authority\system - start typying characters it stop after 254 chars, command ...

UPDATE:

Seems even multiline prompt break scripts too :-/ So it looks this concept is wrong from scratch.

Any other idea?

If autorun script installed in 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun', want to announce it by custom console window simple textual banner. It should appear in the widows header once, just after window is started. As far as text printed by 'echo' command could not be used (because it bre...

I assumed that you downloaded the .zip file and extracted just printf.exe file from it. The .zip file contains 27 files. Why just download printf.exe? Because I am using it in redistributable package which including many other files, and want to minimize files number to keep whole package better ma...

Just discovered the oneliner from first post of this thread display cursor if this one is intentionaly hidden by ANSI sequence, anybody have idea how to avoid this behaviour?

[...] FWIW: MS is telling us that they are about to get rid of VBScript while I've not seen anything about similar intentions for JScript yet. At least I'm not aware of. What do they gain? And why would they make it impossible to run VBS scripts, when BAT scripting has not been ditched long time af...

thanks for explanation

Just download zip file, extract printf.exe and run it:

:\Users\user>\utils\printf.exe
printf.exe Version 1.0 Copyright (C) 2016-2020, Antonio Perez Ayala

'printfHelp.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

As far as VBS is marked as obsolete (and will be removed from next windows version), looking for alternative way of shortcut creation from batch file other than VBS script. Found powershell oneliner powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "$shortcut = New-Object -ComObject WScript...