Hi Dave,
Great idea! Why didn’t I think of that?
Only problem is, embedded CRs will trigger a false positive. That’s why I was asking if it was possible to specify a range of all characters (including CR) except for LF.
- SB
Search found 222 matches
- 27 Mar 2014 07:03
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: findstr regex
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9120
- 26 Mar 2014 19:30
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: findstr regex
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9120
findstr regex
Dear DosTippers, I’m trying to compose a findstr regex. A wrap-around regex that starts with a line feed and then matches any character except a line feed, followed by zero or more carriage returns and another line feed. Trouble is, "." (dot) matches everything except LF or CR, and "[...
- 26 Mar 2014 19:08
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: type nul >con suppresses output
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5245
type nul >con suppresses output
Hello All!
I stumbled across this the other day:
Only the first echo is displayed. The other two are suppressed.
Can anyone explain what’s going on here?
TIA!
- SB
I stumbled across this the other day:
Code: Select all
(cmd /d /u /c type nul >con
echo(first
echo(second
echo(third)
Only the first echo is displayed. The other two are suppressed.
Can anyone explain what’s going on here?
TIA!
- SB
- 05 Mar 2014 05:03
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: mshta and javascript
- Replies: 31
- Views: 68587
Re: mshta and javascript
Hi Einstein1969! Is this what you were looking for? set ldt=For Each objItem in GetObject(""winMgmts:\\.\root\cimv2""^).^ ExecQuery(""Select LocalDateTime from Win32_OperatingSystem ^ where Primary=True""^):CreateObject(""Scripting.FileSystemObject&q...
- 03 Feb 2014 10:57
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Reading tab and new line characters
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4372
Re: Reading tab and new line characters
Hi Steph!
Read the recent slice.cmd topic. It should answer your questions. And if you’re still having difficulties after that, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
- SB
Read the recent slice.cmd topic. It should answer your questions. And if you’re still having difficulties after that, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
- SB
- 03 Feb 2014 09:48
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32586
Re: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
Yes.There's no big difference when you use WMI classes through the activex objects?But after I saw this code started to wonder if it is necessary to create WMI objects to the time? Both javascript and vbscript have a good set date/time functions. True, but look at the output from this little snippe...
- 01 Feb 2014 05:04
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: type not breaks on 1a
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2620
Re: type not breaks on 1a
Hi Carlos,
Reread the recent Ctrl-Z Blues topic. You contributed towards the end, but I recommend reading the whole thing from the beginning. You’ll find out more about Ctrl-Z than you ever wanted to know!
- SB
Reread the recent Ctrl-Z Blues topic. You contributed towards the end, but I recommend reading the whole thing from the beginning. You’ll find out more about Ctrl-Z than you ever wanted to know!
- SB
- 31 Jan 2014 16:02
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: slice.cmd
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9485
Re: slice.cmd
Hi Carlos, I updated my code with your suggestion. And the program now exits more cleanly when the last line of output is reached. I’ve often thought of writing a better version with features like inverted ranges, numbered lines with padded zeros, and support for long lines, etc. But to implement so...
- 31 Jan 2014 15:24
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32586
Re: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
Thanks for the pointers, npocmaka. But this thread on a Russian forum proved to be instructive. Retouching the script I found there, I ended up with: set ^"js=javascript:close(new ActiveXObject('Scripting.^ FileSystemObject'^).GetStandardStream(1^).Write(new String(new ^ Enumerator(new ActiveXO...
- 31 Jan 2014 10:57
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Create nul and all ascii characters with only batch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 115867
Re: Create nul and all ascii characters with only batch
Hi Guys, First off, thanks to aGerman for explaining the makecab hack. I wouldn’t have thought of that in a million years! How did Carlos even think of it? I hereby nominate Carlos for promotion to Expert. Any seconds? Next up, Dave Benham wrote: What really blows me away is that SET /P can read bot...
- 29 Jan 2014 16:49
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32586
Re: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
Thanks Foxi!
I forgot to mention that it should also work for any poor Windows XP Home bunnies out there who don't have the wmic command available to them.
Btw, does anyone know how to do the mshta equivalent of the following:
It might prove useful.
TIA!
- SB
I forgot to mention that it should also work for any poor Windows XP Home bunnies out there who don't have the wmic command available to them.
Btw, does anyone know how to do the mshta equivalent of the following:
Code: Select all
wmic os get localdatetime
It might prove useful.
TIA!
- SB
- 29 Jan 2014 16:34
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: slice.cmd
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9485
Re: slice.cmd
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...
- 29 Jan 2014 14:55
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: What's wrong with XP's for /f delimiter ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20609
Re: What's wrong with XP's for /f delimiter ?
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...
- 29 Jan 2014 08:25
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Create nul and all ascii characters with only batch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 115867
Re: Create nul and all ascii characters with only batch
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 ...
- 28 Jan 2014 16:26
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32586
Re: How to handle a comma in a filename with WMIC?
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...