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Hi bosekamineni, you should use delayed expansion, because it's always safe to expand with delayed expansion. @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set "_string=Test String With | &&<> command" echo the string is !_string! The only drawback is that you be careful with literal exclamation marks, ...

Hi siberia-man, - It is reliable to detect an invocation from FOR/F. - Invokations from pipes doesn't trigger the autostart at all. - When a new instance of cmd.exe is launched directly it can fail, as it's possible to add any possible parameter, but then it only drops the additional commands. It sh...

Hi, I'm using the registry key to start a batch file, that adds some doskey macros. BUT it's a bit tricky, as the batch file will also be called for new cmd instances inovked by FOR /F :!: If the batch file doesn't check that, you can get really strange behaviour in all of your batch files. Think of...

Hi jfl, interesting :) I tried to build a simple workaround history.bat @echo off doskey /history | findstr /n "^" It works as expected 1:doskey /history 2:echo test 3:npp hist.bat 4:hist .. and I thought that the output of the findstr should work normal, but ... history.bat | more Still outputs not...

Hi Dave, I tested your code Windows 7 x64: 4096 Windows XP x32: 4096, but FINDSTR doesn't work reliable And I retested the blocking limit of pipe blocks. First a testString of the configured size is send. The a "second line" is send. If the blocking is active the second line is send only when thread...

Hi Andreas, I suppose there is more in your batch file, because I just tested this sample batch file in a directory named "C:\temp\amp & ersand\" and it works @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion echo cmdcmdline: !cmdcmdline! start "Firefox" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" ...

Hi siberia-man, I currently can't follow Aacini's technic :?: , but it looks impressive ( I have to spend more time on this). But I can answer your question. A quite exciting technique for scripting batch macros. One this I can't understand. When you code the beginning of any macro you use something...

Hi J'aitreschaud, ESC[ <n> m is the Select Graphic Rendition sequence, it sets the display attributes, they affect each NEW character that will be written, that's all. In your case, it changes the complete background after the cls, as the complete screen will be filled with spaces. To reset that set...

Hi pieh-ejdsch, Then with a double circumflex final. The parameters are passed into the :Sub but with circumflex at the end these parameters expand to a rat tail. The caret/circumflex will be doubled always by a CALL command, normally this isn't visible, as the doubled carets are used as escape char...

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today Microsoft published MS-Dos v1.25 and v2.0 as Open Source at github

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I used an extra test script, my main script has the name detectRedirect.bat @echo off call detectRedirect.bat #1 stdout_default call detectRedirect.bat #2 stdout2Nul > nul call detectRedirect.bat #3 stderr2Nul 2> nul call detectRedirect.bat #4 both2Nul 1> nul 2> nul #1 stdout_default STDOUT = 0 STDE...

@siberia-man It's cool and simple :D Yesterday, I build a new solution to detect STDOUT redirection. Currently, the detection for STDERR redirection is not working correct. [strike]It produces a wrong result when the STDOUT redirection is active.[/strike] Edit: I found a simple way for STDERR, 1>&2 ...

Hi sage12, you should use delayed expansion, too avoid any problems with special charaters. setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion "%JAVA_HOME%" -classpath %CLASSPATH% javaprogram !uid! !pwd! But your main problem is a bit difficult. I don't understand, who builds the lines set uid="--uid=theb%renda" set p...

It is very odd that the extra label is required. I get the wrong prompt in the output if I consolidate the thread redirection label and loop label into a single label. :? I can't see any problem with deleting the :__WaitForParams label, it still works for me. One more thing that seems not good. The...

instead of start "" / b ... what happens if you do it without /b? It opens a new cmd window, but that doesn't solve the problem that the main thread is still open. The main thread can be terminated, but this is reasonable only when batch file called from command line and not from another batch file...