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Yes. I often do that, but if you perform a SET /A on a number that starts with 0 (zero) the interpreter interprets it an an Octal number, and could give 'weird' results, to saythe least My way means it doesn't matter but doing it by adding would mean the out put number would be padded, even if the i...

Yes. Probably some kind of limit.

There's probably another way you can do this, what is it exactly that you are trying to do?

I think this might depend on regional settings to make things quick and easy. On my XP box: C:\>echo %date% 25/06/2009 on my win2k box Z:\>echo %date% Thu 25/06/2009 Just extract the name from the output. Other wise some kind of math calcualtion is going to have to be performed. Or just have a separ...

here's my attempt. Could be cleaned up a lot and I see someone has now posted a similar looking solution: @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION :fixtimes SET currentline=0 for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5* delims=;: " %%A IN (in.txt) DO ( IF "%%A"=="time" ( ...

ImageMagick is a fantastic command line program and will give you thousands of operations possible on images. But "identify image.jpg" should out put the required info, just use a for loop to extract the required values. Also, XP has built in functionally (like how explorer can give you de...

not using batch. You would need some kind of gui tool. Unless you can pass the contents of the form as a parameter in the same way the search term is passed to google as a parameter. There are tools to copy text to the clipboard in a batch file so you could get the text 'out' of the batch easily eno...

open the web browser with this address :

http://www.google.com/search?q=test

and replace test with whatever you want to search for...

this thread has the answer

http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic. ... light=#559

mm. That may work, but don't have time to uderstand exactly what it doing.. what I have done in the past is to get a copy of tail.exe you can get this from the gnu utils / unix tools and then run your script with myscript.bat > log.txt and then in another window type tail -f log.txt and it will just...

Use the expansion shortcuts.

if %1 is c:\drivers\audio

then %~pn1 is \drivers\audio
and %~n1 is \audio\

etc

I prefer to make a specific scripts directory . e.g. C:\scripts and add that to my %PATH% environment variable.

this way it keeps the system dirs tidy, and i know what i'm dealing with just by looking in there.

Interesting, I definately need to look at this.

I'm trying to write a batch file that will accept either, 1 image, more than one image (upto around a 1000) or a folder, dropped onto the icon.

Will post up some code later.

Cheers

Is there any limit on the number of files (images) that could be recorded into variables like this? In my tests I have found dropping about 31/32 files onto a batch and reading them in to array style like that is the limit...

Nice tip. Any way to avoid SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION is good

Try this.