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You may want to refrain from using double colons for comments inside an expression surrounded by parenthesis.

I always like people to post the code they tried to at least get a better understanding of what they are trying to do. If you need to change the working directory you could do that two ways. You can use the CD or PUSHD command. CD /D "C:\Path to Folder" or PUSHD "C:\Path to Folder&quo...

Well here is some interesting output from this batch. E:\batch files\HEAD>FileAttrib.bat EST3_CRLF.txt FC: cannot open 25712336 - No such file or folder The system cannot find the batch label specified - error E:\batch files\HEAD>type FileAttrib.log Filename Quantity RecLength EOL 25712336 1026 0D0A...

The batch file needs to physically be executed on the server you want it to run. If you have admin access to the server you could use psexec to execute it on the correct server.

That is never going to work.

Why didn't you use a FOR /R like you posted in this thread. http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2763&p=13020#p13020 Or you could put the DIR command into the FOR loop instead of writing the output to a text file. cd /d C:\ for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /a-d /s /b *.pst...

When changing the DRIVE and path you have to use the /D switch with the CD command.

I usually prefer to just use the PUSHD command instead.

aGerman wrote:I had to correct this line to get it to run:
for %%A in (O00 K02 Q00 F05 C00) do set "search=!search! /c:"!prefix!%%A""

Regards
aGerman

Yeah, I saw that as well when I initially ran the code. Didn't want to discredit Dave for a minor syntax error.

It's like winning the lottery every time I post a question here.
Thanks again Dave.

Don't think there is much you could do about a string not being closed quoted correctly. If you just have a set of empty quotes then you can check to see if it is empty. So given your example of "" a --- This code would correctly count it as 2. @echo off set count=0 for %%I in (%*) do IF N...

Couple of other questions. 1) Can't seem to put this into a FOR LOOP. I get the error FINDSTR: Bad command line FOR /F "tokens=2 delims= " %%A in ('findstr /r /c:"EA ..*!CR!*!LF!..*!CR!*!LF!..*!CR!*!LF!..*!CR!*!LF!GC O00" test.txt') do echo %%A 2)Dave said in his article that usi...

Thanks aGerman!

So can the search be extended across multiple lines? I am basically looking at the lines that start with EA and 4 lines down will be the line GC. ** YP 2001 RC U EA 9780702026171 RF R WE 1780 SG 1 GC O00 I3 1313101313134 PC S6.1T ** YP 2003 RC J EA 9780237526306 RF R WE 220 SG 4 GC C09 I3 1111232349...

I have of course gotten off the main topic of this thread which was piping to another command. But just throwing this last one out there. This code from Orange Batch on the same file took all of 16 seconds. @echo off echo %time%>oblog.log type nul>"OBtemp.txt" set "suffix1=%~n1 ."...

I must have typed CTRL+C thinking it was hanging. I reran it again and it did work but it took 9 minutes 20 seconds on a file with 6,947 lines in it. File is actually just under 7MB in size. So I ran it with Dave's Code. @echo off echo %TIME%>davelog.log setlocal set "suffix1=%~n1 ." set s...