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And so the Recycle Bin is the last resort in efforts of retrieving potentially hours of work that was performed even as far as months ago. Wow. If I only had known all these decades that I could just use the recycle bin as a backup mechanism. This should literally bankrupt that software sector.

1)Pipe the output to the FINDSTR command to isolate the Instance ID.
2) Capture that command output with a FOR /F command like you have done in other batch files.
3) Run the command to remove the device with that output.

Make an attempt.

@echo off cd /d "%~dp0" for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /s /a-d *-*.pdf') do ( set "OldFile=%%i" set "OldName=%%~nxi" setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set NewName=!OldName:- Deposit=TALLY! set NewName=!NewName:-=.! ren "!OldFile!" "!NewName!" endlocal ) pause You should just change your name to Bat...

Again this is basic string substitution. Your last two forum threads covered both of what you want to do. What don't you understand?

When you read the help file for the IF command where did it show usage for using a PIPE or OR?

Your code is just echoing to the screen what the pnputil execution would do.

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”

Start by using the String Length function from the Dostips Library. https://www.dostips.com/DtTipsStringOperations.php#Function.strLen Then you have a few options from there. You could use a for /l loop to build the underscore variable to the correct length. You could also have a predefined undersco...

You were told 7 years ago by the now deceased Foxidrive on alt.msdos.batch.nt that those programs output as unicode. And Foxidrive showed you how to use the TYPE command to translate them back to ASCII.

And you have been warned about not using quotes with IF comparisons at least twice previously.
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Thank you both for the reply... That solved that problem. I have run into another problem that I can't figure out. C:\>C:\Batch\SetACL.exe -on "C:\Temp" -ot folder -actn ace "n:Win10BootRepair\Gary;p:full" ERROR in command line: Invalid object type specified: folder! Like when you posted this same ...

Thank you very much. That's great to know. It's very nice of you to share your knowledge. Straight from the help file for the findstr command. Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed with /C. I have seen a pattern with some of your questions and it seems like ...

Anyone know how to make a batch file to replace all dashes (-) in a file name with periods (.)? I basically have a ton of PDF files that are named like this: HN TALLY 11-18-23.pdf HN TALLY 11-19-23.pdf REG 11-20-23.pdf EW CAR 11-21-23.pdf and so on.... I would like it to rename the files like this ...

I would like to make sure the input letter is upper case and I would like to add a : the code below doesn't add the colin. setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set /p Drive=Please enter drive letter. Example C call :Uppercase Drive set "colin = :" set "Drive &= %colin%" Echo %Drive% cmd /k You cannot be...

This should get you started. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33077104/batch-script-for-formatting-xml-files-search-for-strings-and-comment-them-out Hey thanks, but this doesn't skip the first 2 tags and I don't want it to be format like this <xml> <tag> <othertag> </othertag> </tag> </xml> Wasn...