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Looks like a couple of different requirements. If your folder FolderX's are named the same, a simple xcopy command will do it unless there are identical file names. For identical names, you'll have to rename something unless you want the files actually merged. I'm not sure I follow the others requir...

Definitely that. If you don't exactly specify which executable to run, someone may execute his exe file instead of yours, with your rights as you call it. Gotcha. Makes sense. That's true - but think of all the other tools that you would also have to prepend the path. find, findstr, xcopy, robocopy...

I think a dead simple example will help a bit:
What this will do is the following:Make sense?

Very interesting. I remember from my C class that this would be some sort of order of operations and nesting, but didn't think that was possible in batch files. I'm sure I needed this a time or two before.

So this is because you are using a very very very very very old version of Quickbooks? Because as far as I know my wife does this very easily every month at her work and she uses ADP and Quickbooks. The newer versions of Quickbooks are bloated and nothing as simple and efficient as the original DOS...

@Samir It seems to right trim only: Z:\>for %f in (" test test test ") do echo "%~nf" " test test test" @probyn This woorks very good, but is unsafe: trim asdad asd ^& echo Leak Maybe i am a little bit too mistrustful, but this is my maxime on external input. penpe...

It's actually a much simpler task--ADP provides payroll data in a csv format and Quickbooks for DOS allows importing transactions via a QIF file. It has limitations, but will still save me about 50% of the time of entering the payroll manually like I've been doing. I've actually just completed a scr...

Neat! I didn't even know about cscript. But I did want to stay at a 'pure' dos level if possible.

To make ping safer, you mean to explicitly specify where the exe is vs letting the path determine the location?

I did a bunch of searches for this, but it seems like like nobody has really thought of putting these two together. I've been doing some scouring on the Internet and ran into the wonderful code on dostips to help me with some of the conversions details. So has no one really tried doing this before?

I found a really quick and dirty way to trim spaces from a for variable by using %~nF. Even though ~n is reserved for filenames, it does a great job of stripping out white space. This one-liner will take care of both left and right trimming of spaces: ----------begin screen capture--------- C:\CMD>...

I needed something to do this that was pure command line DOS, so I made this. I'm looking for feedback for any improvements.

I hate to bump such an old thread, but I have to add some experience that I used in the late 1990s for mass converting mp3s. What I had created was a n-scalable batch file for mass parallel encoding files. So you have a source batch file on a file server with your files to be encoded. This batch fil...

OK, I simplified my bat script to only map drive "S" instead of the rest of the actions. You see below how I map the drive...It states that it's already in use, even though it doesn't appear it's being used anywhere. C:\Users\fred\Downloads\BAT-Files>NET USE S: \\SERVER\netty\star /persis...

I found a really quick and dirty way to trim spaces from a for variable by using %~nF. Even though ~n is reserved for filenames, it does a great job of stripping out white space.

The only way I could think of doing that is if you could somehow run a second instance of the browser. I don't know, but there may be a way to feed an html file to start with the target parameter in there. Try that and see what happens.