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One of my scripts is 6,000 lines long. It has a bug. Invalid syntax or some such. I've spent a week going over the code so many times. I've checked of unbalanced parenthesis, quotes and so on. Damned if I can find it. So I used the batcodecheck program, but it's very basic and doesn't find any issue...

OMG!!! I'm a dummy... Flawed logic The master Hosts file is on my PC. As various lists are updated on github they are applied to the file I have. So that file has everything. The process I've currently been working on REMOVES lines from Hosts based on lines in another text file. I have another scrip...

Hmmm. I must have missed something. I tried /lixvg:<file>.... Don't /x and /v conflict? /x will write only the exact matches to the output file? I actually do want my cake and to eat it too. There are times when partial matches are desirable, but with the possibility of bad domains being mixed with ...

it works. A little too well. There are some domains that rely on users making typos - sites like ttwitter.com So when i have twitter.com in the source file, both twitter.com and ttwitter.com are removed from the target file. I get why this happens, but is there a way to prevent this? Perhaps I need ...

I spent hours messing with for loops... Didn't even think of using findstr.
I can't guarantee the first or any line will or won't have a dot. It's highly likely they will.
Thanks, I'll give it a go and let you know how it works out.

Hello Again. I have two files. One is the Windows hosts file. The other contains a list of entries I want to remove from the hosts file. file1 is the file containing the lines to remove, file2 is %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. File1 may contain (full or partial domains). facebook www.twitter.c...

OMG! How embarrassing. That fixed it.

thanks for the help.

Windows typically forbids to create files in the root directory of system drives (typically "C:\"), so you should place your "Backup.log" file somewhere else. Fair point, though, I've never had an issue writing file to c:\. Some applications even default to there (DVDFab's junk folders, WinAeroTwea...

I fail to see where %root1809% is defined as a variable ughh! Sorry, that is my fault. It should say %RootDrv%... Typo. The code is "%RootDrv%\rar.exe" a -r -y -iddp -rr5 -ow -tsmcap -tl -dh -wG:\ -x"Kodi\userdata\Thumbnails" KodiPackage Kodi >>C:\Backup.log 2>&1 "%RootDrv%\rar.exe" a -r -y -iddp -...

I have a batch file that backs up various files and settings on my PC for when I clean reinstall Windows. The following variables are set; set RootDrv=%cd% set SRC=%cd:~0,2% Set UserPath=%RootDrv%\%USERNAME% set AppPath=%UserPath%\Applications I write the contents of those to a log file which shows....

That works. Thanks for your help.

for /f %%a in ( C:\LOGLIST.TXT ) do WEVTUTIL CL "%%a" The textfile is created from WEVTUTIL EL >>C:\LogList.txt For example, this: Internet Explorer will fail with error Failed to clear log Internet. The specified channel could not be found. Whereas HardwareEvents Will work fine. Only happens when c...

OMG! That's awesome code. Doesn't return any results for optical drives though. Snippet 1 # Set CD/DVD Drive to A: $cd = $NULL $cd = Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_CDROMDrive -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME -ErrorAction Stop if ($cd.Drive -eq "D:") { Write-Output "Changing CD Drive letter from D: to A:"...

I'd have to go through my history to track down the powershell scripts. But I have a rather good discovery to share... Diskpart's list disk and list partition command work with hard disks and removable drives like USB drives, but not with optical drives. However, LIST VOL[ume] does list the optical ...

No problems. I did come here for help which you generously gave. It would be rude of me to presume that I'm right. I shall return it to it's original form. As for optical drives, we all still use them extensively. I may have 100TB on my server, but I keep running out. When I run out of space I remov...