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... It's a problem of the CALL, it's independent of the command, because the command is never be used, when the CALL detects the /? before. ... Agreed, since CALL is the one intercepting with its own help (or not passing on the CALLed command I should say). I was pointing out the interesting behavi...

... In my opinion, there is a champion: echo( It's the most reliable in most of the cases. It fails only with: :case1 call echo( /? ... I see. "call echo( /?" apparently suffers from the same issue I mentioned which suggests there might be a way to escape it somehow: Fails: call echo( /? Works: cal...

This subject seemed to tail off without resolution, yet using ECHO to reliably display information is such a necessity. ... fails, if a file in the current directory exists named my.bat echo\..\my.bat echo:\..\my.bat echo.\..\my.bat ... ... The echo:\..\my.bat behavior really blows my mind. :shock: ...

I wrote this one-liner to handle (only in the first argument) the help command option in batch files: @For %%? in ("" : - /)do @IF %%~??==%1 GOTO:Help ... :Help ... It supports whatever leading switch characters you want to allow (in the FOR command set, except "*" which triggers a wildcard replacem...

Also, since "n<<<<<<" matches an ".exe"-file, i would expect "n<<<<<<.exe" to match the same executable, but on my system the first executes "C:\Windows\Notepad.exe" while the last starts "C:\Windows\System32\Narrator.exe". Yes, but while "n<<<<<<" does indeed match an ".exe"-file, that's not the F...

Create a shortcut to your batch file in the Send To folder, which is easily opened from the command line with: start shell:sendto Then you can right-click on your selected files, click Send To ; [your shortcut name] The batch file will receive the list of files as arguments, which you can iterate th...

... My PATH variable contains ";C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;" in that order, so it should search system32 folder first... On my system as well, except if I DIR "C:\Windows\System32\no*****.*" , the first file (of 11) returned is NOISE.DAT , causing PATHEXT to be searched for: NOISE.D.COM , NOISE...

... executing "C:\Windows\notepad.exe", you get that different icon. I just tried that, and it sure does. That's so weird, especially since it's a hardlink, effectively pointing to the SAME file! >fsutil hardlink list C:\windows\notepad.exe \Windows\notepad.exe \Windows\System32\notepad.exe \Window...

Adding the file "netbios.dll" to that folder makes it the first listed using 'dir "n<s.*"', but it doesn't execute net.exe (at least on my system). I tried your scenario, adding my \Test directory to the PATH before any \Windows paths, then I started with the current directory as %UserProfile%: >"n...

... in the taskbar, the notepad window does not have the notepad icon. Whoa! I didn't notice that. Good catch! I'm betting the icon resource lookup doesn't recognize wildcards. This extends to Task Manager's Details pane where if you look-up the Properties of that task, the Properties window also h...

While i agree with most you said, there is a nitpick. I have a file named "netbios.dll" in "C:\Windows\System32". Therefore "n<s" should also trigger the execution of "net.exe" on my system, but it doesn't. On your system, what is the FIRST file returned from: DIR "%Windir%\System32\n<s.*" If you f...

What's happening here has been nagging me for over a year now, with seemingly so random results I didn't even post about it because I couldn't even formulate how to say what I've been seeing. I finally took some time to test and observe on my current Windows 10 system (unless otherwise indicated). H...

GOTO :EOF will work with extensions disabled, but :EOF must be in capitals. I cannot get GOTO :EOF (nor GOTO:EOF, with or without space, in all-caps) to function with DisableExtensions unless an :EOF (or :eof) label is present. I tested: - on both Windows 2000 [5.00.2195] and Windows 10 [10.0.19042...

For a quick lookup list, I use the name.ext variable parsers %~n and %~x, adding a . before the lookup value like this example which expands the 3-letter abbreviation for day-of-week to the full word: @ FOR %%T in ( %DATE% )do @ FOR %%D in ( Sunday.Sun Monday.Mon Tuesday.Tue Wednesday.Wed Thursday.T...

If you can do with the limit of not being able to use ? and * wildcard characters, I use a simple routine that leverages the command parser and FOR command. Save this as EchoArgs.cmd : @ For %%* in (%* %= Process each argument as a separate line. Arguments containing "poison"/whitespace must be quot...