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My question was geared if you would need it for something special. Batch is a very primordial class. It is based on good old DOS and has a lot of limitations. Batch doesn't have any event handler. That means you can't figure out - which key is pressed - which mouse button is pushd - where the mause ...

No, you can't.
Also you can't disable Ctrl+C.

Why do you need it?

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aGerman

lifeh2o Try if this will work for you. @echo off &setlocal set /a n=0 set /a m=0 for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /a-d /b /s "c:\*.log" "c:\*quiz*.htm"') do call :sub "%%a" goto :eof :sub if /i "%~x1"==".log" ( set /a n+=1 call set i=%%n%...

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There is no command for such intention.
Batches are interpreted line by line. If you close the window this interpretation is interrupted and nothing else will go on.

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aGerman

Chunter I don't know the given specifications, but if you have to process the data later you will get a problem if you can't find a data record in a single line. What ever. If you want to write it as a block you could do it like that :: [...] echo Total sales has been calculated as %total% echo Com...

Chunter You can't redirect the values to a file and to your screen using the same command, but you could write two command lines. e.g. echo Total sales has been calculated as %total% >>commlog.txt echo Total sales has been calculated as %total% But I think that's not exactly what you need. IMHO it ...

Peterr

Additional to !k's reply - the default line should be

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aGerman

Threep Your entire Batch is just one FOR loop written as a block. For your command line interpreter it looks like a single command line. Note that the expansion of variables occurs only one time during the run time of a command line. Thats why you can't see any changes of the %errorlevel% variable....

krisamigo sxekjb is right, this is also a possible solution. The first you have to do is allways searching for a meaningful key in the registry. Use any registry editor (e.g. regedit.exe). If you want to use the function of my url: @echo off &setlocal call :IsRegKey "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Ac...

krisamigo There are different approaches. If it is a registered software you could have a look to your registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE) to figure out if a software is installed. See also http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#Function.IsRegKey . Otherwise you could look for a special exe fil...

auaa no idea what those could be good for Take a FOR loop and overwrite each file with 0 byte. @echo off &setlocal set "folder=C:\anywhere" pushd "%folder%"||goto :eof for %%a in (*) do ( type nul>"%%a" ) popd Every found file will be a blank file, also links! Rega...

avery_larry You are right. I misunderstood that kyosa asked for a service. net start | find /i "name of the service" >nul 2>nul || net start "name of the service" Will only try to start the service if it isn't running. Not that this method WOULD match partial service names. Exam...

pink I'm not sure about, but maybe you could use something like that. @echo off &setlocal for /f "delims=" %%a in ("T:\data\test.dat") do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in ("T:\arch\test.dat") do ( if "%%~ta"=="%%~tb" ( if "%%~za"==&...

PJonDevelopment

The solution is simple.


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aGerman

kyosa You could use TASKLIST and FINDSTR to test if a process is running. Notepad as an example: @echo off &setlocal set "process=notepad.exe" set "fullname=%SystemRoot%\notepad.exe" :loop tasklist|findstr /i /b /l /c:"%process%">nul||start "" "%full...