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Hello Carlos! Slice was one of the first Batch programs I tried to write. I couldn’t output the lines verbatim so I asked for help on the alt.msdos.batch.nt newsgroup and a long, rambling thread unfolded. Your program was one of several submitted. Now that I have a better idea of what I’m doing, I c...

Welcome to DosTips, Dave! Penpen’s answer is probably overkill for your requirements. Below is a little snippet that stores a tab in a variable along with an example of how to use it. Should work with any version of Windows from XP onwards. for /f "delims=" %%t in ('mshta ^"javascript...

Hello All! Wow! What a fascinating thread. Allow me to tie up a few loose ends. I thought Penpen’s final version of CreateNul.cmd was definitive… and then I saw Carlos’s optimisation of my snippet. I’m going to be controversial and call it a draw! Squashman, I think this is the post on forfiles you ...

Hi Again! I wondered why nobody replied to my posts. Then I realised Foxi was talking about square brackets in the filename and not the parentheses around the name clause of the wmic command. Anyways, here’s my mshta solution which is very much in vogue these days thanks to npocmaka and Einstein1969...

Hello All! Taking from DT: Another Way to Create a Linefeed Variable and SO: How to Write a Single Space to a Text File , I came up with this little snippet: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions (set lf=^ ) set nl=^^^%lf%%lf%^%lf%%lf% set "lfFile=%tmp%\lf.tmp" set "lfUTF=%tmp%\lf...

Hi Endoro! Great question. Turns out the equals sign after name must be caret-escaped: X:\> set "fn=%cd%\tom, dick & harry.txt" X:\> type nul >"%fn%" X:\> for /f "skip=1" %f in (' More? wmic datafile where (name^="%fn:\=\\%"^) get lastmodified More? ') do ...

Hello All! I combined AiroNG’s parentheses and Penpen’s backslash-escape techniques and ended up with something like this: X:\> set "fn=%cd%\tom, dick & harry.txt" X:\> type nul >"%fn%" X:\> wmic datafile where (name="%fn:\=\\%") get lastmodified LastModified 201401...

Hi Again! Thanks to everyone who answered. And apologies for not replying sooner. I was having a little break… Anyways, I plundered some code from one of the links Squashman suggested and came up with this snippet that finds the longest line in a file: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions enabl...

Hi Foxi, In SO: Undocumented Features and Linitations of FindStr , Dave Benham wrote: Piped data and Redirected input is limited to 8191 bytes per line. This limit is a “feature” of FINDSTR. It is not inherent to pipes or redirection. FINDSTR using redirected stdin or piped input will never match an...

Happy 2014 to All! I thought I could use findstr to scan a file for lines that had more than 8191 characters. I came up with: findstr "^" longlines.txt | findstr "^" >nul FINDSTR: Line 3 is too long. FINDSTR: Line 5 is too long. Are there different language versions of findstr? I...

Happy Christmas All! Just a quick note to say the link in the OP still works. Also, I’ve moved from XP to Win 7. The game crashes just as frequently as before, only now it doesn’t bring the whole machine down with it. Btw, press Ctrl-X to score a strike every time and Ctrl-D to hit the deer. Have fu...

Hi Yossi,

Try the following:



A tip I picked up from ss64.com’s page on the type command.

Hope this helps!

- SB

Sorry I’m late! Here’s some beta code that reads in a file containing a single long line (NULs and newlines not supported). It splits it up and spits it back out in 4095-character chunks by misusing pause and find: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion if "%~1" n...

Hi AiroNG,

The findstr command will do what you want:



It will output only the filenames that contain the matching text. Read findstr’s help for more info. There are many switches to be mastered.

Good luck!

- SB

Dear DosTippers, While participating in a long, meandering thread about something else entirely, I prepended a BOM to a plain ASCII file and redirected it to a new file as below: cmd /d /u /c type bomfile.txt > newfile.txt To my surprise, the BOM was missing from the new file and the new file was 1 ...