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I'd like to have a readable form of code that checks whether a program is available to be used. It's mostly to check if the program is available from the PATH Environment Variable. I'd like to ask if this makes any sense and is a correct way to do that, or you have any improvements on that. @ECHO OF...

These IF statements are suppose to compare strings. As you will see we are comparing: literal "c" character with another literal "c" character . And later on, adding another if statement that compare: literal "b" character with another literal "b" character . Or at least I think so. First test, ever...

I'd like that in the variable SET "substitute=quiethaha" the value quiethaha would be split in two lines: quiet haha I'm quite sure it is possible. But I can't really remember on how. search-replace.cmd @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET "word=quiet" SET "substitute=quiethaha" FOR /F "del...

I pasted this command into Command Prompt and there is no output. How come? I expected it to print every line.

PS. doskey /history shows the output when it is not inside FOR Loop

I found something, this command shows the history of commands pasted into the command line. Might be enough for what I need.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.720] (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\user> Let's say I want to output all this to a file. How can I achieve this? Later on I'm considering parsing the cmd output for what happened and what commands and arguments were issued in the ...

Is it possible to make cmd.exe to parse piped batch code? Are there ways to process piped batch code? There seems to be conflicts between cmd interpreter syntax and batch syntax. PS. I'm not talking about running a batch script. I'm talking about running the piped batch code. If not: Are there any c...

Did you call your script WMIC.cmd/.bat? That would explain this behaviour exactly. I make a habit out of adding the file extension to programs used in scripts to avoid this (replace WMIC with WMIC.exe) But it is always better to avoid naming your scripts the same as an already existing program. I s...

I came across this weird behaviour with Wmic: Running WMIC from manually opened command prompt without administrator privilegies - works properly and output is delivered as expected. Running WMIC from batch file without administrator privilegies - Wmic is stuck in the permanent loop without any outp...

Then I suggest you write a wrapper script that takes the URL you're downloading as %1 and pipes that to cmd /q Wouldn't it be possible without wrapper script? ' There are no ways to enclose code and pipe it into cmd /q like in this pseudo code? Non-working pseudo-code ( echo Hello this is going to ...

Why don't you want to use cmd /Q? That's how you do it. You see typing additional options are hard. They are hard to remember, takes aditional time for beginners that are only starting to use command line prompt, and they will use this command only few times in years. I'm starting to think that I s...

I would like to know if there is any known way to turn off Echo when piping batch code to cmd. Only by adding /Q option to cmd.exe, the output is actually with echo off. I need the script to be the trigger of echo off, and not the /Q option of cmd.exe If not, Are there any alternative ways to execut...

And here the main script with the new method of gathering date from operating system: Seems to be working pretty well. @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion REM Get current Year and Month for Windows 10 Windows 8.1 Windows 8 Windows 7 FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=1-6" %%A IN ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime...

Your way of dealing with dates is not good as it depends on the locale settings for the computer. For example, %date% on my machine yields Fri 03/13/2020 which completely breaks your code. You should be using FOR /F with WMIC OS GET LOCALDATETIME to get the date and/or time in a way that can be par...

Windows 8 is not deprecated. Windows 8 Unsupported as of January 12, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 Windows 8.1 Mainstream support ended on January 9, 2018 Extended support until January 10, 2023 Upgrading to Windows 8.1 is required for Windows 8 users to receive updates and support a...