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yonitda,

Indeed findstr shows a "FINDSTR: Search string too long." error when the search string is longer than 127 characters.
The find command doesn't have this limitation.

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If not let me know there are other options

Matice,

Your code is creating data in c:\nicguid.txt but then tries to read it from c:\source\nicguid.txt.

A regular expression parser surely is a powerful tool. However this web page tries to suggest portable solution that work on XP systems without extra downloads.

Matice, Use the :NetworkDeviceName2Guid function in you main code like this: CALL:NetworkDeviceName2Guid "Local Area Connection" guid ECHO.The GUID is: %guid% GOTO:EOF Copy the :NetworkDeviceName2Guid function from here: http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#NetworkDeviceName2Guid to the...

It's easy when the source of the indended content is another file. I.e.: If names.txt containes names like: Daniel Ollie Sam Nina Victor Cris Then code like this ... echo.List of Names:>list.txt for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (names.txt) do echo. %%a>>list.txt ... will create an ...

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Matice, Go to "Batch Files" "11 - Sorting text with numbers" and download the sortn.bat file. http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeBatchFiles.php#_Toc145951142 Then from a command line pipe the output of a dir command into sortn.bat like this: dir /b|sortn Make sure sortn.bat is accessible if not use the fu...

Sorry I didn't try it out: It had two errors: 1. to extract CC from YYYY use: %YYYY: ~ -2% 2. to make sure MM and DD are always two digits, e.g. with leading zero, use: set MM=00%MM%&set DD=00%DD% set DD=%DD:~-2%&set MM=%MM:~-2% You will also need to ensure the script stops before running in...

Cooldmitriy Copy the functions :jdate , :date2jdate , and :jdate2date to the end of your batch script. http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#jdate http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#date2jdate http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#jdate2date Then you can calculate the date like this: call:j...

dizze, Yes you can, in your case use: call echo.%%c%cols%%% Before executing the line the command interpreter will resolve: %cols% --> value of cols variable %% ------> % Assuming the value of the cols variable is 0 and the value of c0 is 12345 this means: call echo.%%c%cols%%% will be resolved to: ...

Try this: cd "\yourdirectory\here" for %%a in (*.txt) do echo.%%~ta|findstr /v /b /c:"%date:~4%">NUL&&del "%%a" The FOR loop - finds all txt files in the directory. echo.%%~ta - resolves into file date and file time which will be piped into findstr. %dat...

CameronY Very Interesting ... Add the following function at the end of your batch: GOTO:EOF :CmpFTime op file1 file2 attr1 attr2 -- compares the time of two files :: -- op [in] - compare operator, see 'IF /?', i.e.EQU, NEQ, LSS, LEQ, GTR, GEQ :: -- fileL [in] - file name, left side of compare :: -- ...

In WinXP fc does return an exit code and you could use: fc "%file1%" "%file2%">NUL&&( echo the files are equal rem keep this rem as last command in the block )||( echo the files are different ) However if the fc command in your windows version works differ...