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Depending on the level of privileges you want to determine, could you search by the Security Identifier? For example, the INFO.BAT script on this site https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6108&p=49091#p49091 uses the following to check for Admin privileges: whoami /groups |findstr /i "\...

Have a look at this post from aGerman where he explains how to set a clock to AM/PM: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2051#p64840

If you are open to powershell, I've done this from a batch script:

What happen if current day is the 1st one? One day before would be the last day of previous month... If the current day is January/1st, then one day before would be December/31 of previous year... If current day is March/1st the day before would be February/28, excepting if the year is a leap year....

@echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=1-6 delims=/: " %%a in ('robocopy "|" . /njh ^| find ":"') do ( set "_year=%%a" & set "_month=%%b" & set "_day=%%c" set /a "_day=1!_day!-100" set /a "_day=!_day! - 1" if !_day! LSS 10 set "_day=0!_day!" set "_date=!_year!-!_month!-!_day!" ) e...

Type the same xcopy command into the command line to see it would fail there too. It is going to ask you to specify if the item is a file or directory. While language dependent, one option is to add "echo F|" in front of your xcopy command: https://ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html For a single file, you are b...

It sounds like you are running into an issue where the script is generating a leading 0 that is specifying an Octal. See the section "Leading Zero will specify Octal" here: https://ss64.com/nt/set.html There are certainly workarounds: https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4911#p28550 To dete...

You are just trying to find out if text is present in the file? Why not something as simple as: type "%programfiles(x86)%\sendEmail\sendemail.log" |findstr /c:"Email was sent successfully!" >nul 2>&1 if %errorlevel% EQU 0 ( echo do something if found ) else ( echo do something if not found ) Replace...

aGerman wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2022 10:49

A removal of WMIC won't affect the functionality of the script. So, there's no reason for an update...

Steffen

Aren't you using WMIC to determine the code page and assign that to the %ACP% variable? Aren't you then using that variable to determine things like the directory format?

I know this script takes into account whether WMIC is installed. However, are there plans to adjust it to account for the eventual removal of WMIC in Windows 11?

Thank you for the script, Jean-Francois. It is also interesting to see that the MSHTML (Trident) engine for IE 11 will continue to be supported:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ ... -p/2366549

Is there any reason you just want to use xcopy for this? Robocopy has been a standard part of Windows since Vista and has a built in progress feature:

https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

aGerman wrote: ↑

02 Mar 2022 14:05

You want to get the rest (token *) after token 2, right? So, what about

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for /f "tokens=2*" %%a in ('...') do set "var=%%b"

Steffen

Well, that was a silly mistake. I was thinking I had to grab the third token and later. That's exactly what I needed. Thanks again, Steffen.

I would like to know how to capture a value from the registry as a variable when that value may be multiple words or not. Here is a quick example that would work if the value was one word: for /f "tokens=3*" %%a in ('%__APPDIR__%reg.exe query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v "R...

FWIW, I find this site to be helpful for just browsing the available WMI namespaces, classes, etc.

https://wutils.com/wmi/