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So I have to admit that my simplistic batch skills made it quite a task just to understand the solutions presented. And even after digesting them, going back to my very simple idea of just copying to a temp and then re-copying and re-executing to make a loop seemed to be the easiest way. Final code ...

I forgot exactly what I used, but will post it once I remember again. I'll also get the os version as I think that's a factor.

Thank you penpen. Did you try a solution with wildcards and see if the echo n works? That's where it seemed to break down for me.

Old topic, but I thought I would post. pipe an 'n' to each question on the overwrite. the /-y is required in batch files or it assumes /y. echo n|copy /-y c:\source\* c:\destination\* This works great for copy, but does not for xcopy. :( Anyone have a solution for xcopy? I have a xcopy /d that keep...

Thank you! Another idea to digest. It always amazes me how much you guys know about batch--I'm always in awe.

Thank you both for your fantastic responses! It is amazing the depth and breath of responses one gets here. 8) Simply fantastic. 8) You both have made me sit down and think again how I want to approach the task I wish the batch to accomplish. Once I have digested everything, I will post what I come ...

So after thinking about this for a bit it seems like this might be the best way: if the batch started is the original, copy the file to %temp% and execute it there. at the end of the batch, copy the file from the original to %temp% again if orig is newer and execute the %temp% copy again. This will ...

I'm sure some of you have one of these running, but I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to implement the 'updating' method. I have a batch that I execute that loops back it its beginning again when complete so it can run again. Now the problem is that if this batch is running and I update i...

Since for years (decades?) this forum has only had one forum--DOS Batch--why not simply add forums for Powershell and Bash and see what happens? If there isn't enough activity you can always hide/delete them.

Thank you for sharing. I remember a long time ago there was a bath for something similar if not the exact same thing, but who knows how to find it.

For older versions of windows that do not have timeout as a command, but do have a tcp/ip stack installed, I use the following for a timer:where SECONDS is the number of seconds you want to pause.

That's a bit misleading. You can snoop on traffic, but you can't inherently do anything with it. It's like Wireshark. But in the article, the author was able to get ftp passwords sent in the clear. Not all traffic on a lan is encrypted so I can easily see this being used by a malware toolkit to scr...

That's a bit misleading. You can snoop on traffic, but you can't inherently do anything with it. It's like Wireshark. But in the article, the author was able to get ftp passwords sent in the clear. Not all traffic on a lan is encrypted so I can easily see this being used by a malware toolkit to scr...

Very useful and very dangerous at the same time as a compromised system on a network can now automatically hack the network with the right batch file. :shock: That's a bit misleading. You can snoop on traffic, but you can't inherently do anything with it. It's like Wireshark. But in the article, th...

Very useful and very dangerous at the same time as a compromised system on a network can now automatically hack the network with the right batch file.