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- 10 Jan 2023 12:44
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: New in.exe and with.exe commands for the Windows cmd shell
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32104
New in.exe and with.exe commands for the Windows cmd shell
Hello, I've published an updated version of my System Tools Library , including two new tools for the cmd.exe shell: in.exe: Execute a command in a different directory, then come back. Avoids having to remember to run popd afterwards. Ex: `in .. cd` displays the full name of the parent directory: C:...
- 10 Dec 2022 08:23
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: DOS search for file contents? Like Grep
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7345
Re: DOS search for file contents? Like Grep
The ideal tool for that is ag.exe, aka. The Silver Searcher. See the tool description in its home page on GitHub . (The first half describes the specificities of that Windows version; The second half describes ag features for both Unix and Windows.) You can install it using winget: winget install "T...
- 05 Dec 2022 04:12
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Copy wild*.tsv files loop subfolders
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1914
Re: Copy wild*.tsv files loop subfolders
If your goal is to have a copy of the files in each and every subfolder, the command would be:
The for /d option makes it loop on directories.
Then the copy command is repeated for each target directory.
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for /d %d in (C:\customers\subfoldernames\*) do copy *.tsv "%d"
Then the copy command is repeated for each target directory.
- 04 Dec 2022 08:22
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Delete paths in system environment variables
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7338
Re: Delete paths in system environment variables
There is a useful script called paths.bat in my System Tools Library that can help you do that: https://github.com/JFLarvoire/SysToolsLib/releases/latest/download/SysTools.zip When invoked without any option, the paths.bat script displays the current PATH with 1 pathname per line. This makes it cons...
- 21 Apr 2022 05:13
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: ZeroKs 0 KB file compression
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8499
Re: ZeroKs 0 KB file compression
but the "ZeroKs compression" would actually work in a corporate environment where data is on a server with NTFS datastroage. If it does work, then it's an NTFS quota bug! That's why I asked if he had really tried it: I'd be surprised if Microsoft had left such a severe bug in their file system, but...
- 15 Apr 2022 06:33
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: ZeroKs 0 KB file compression
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8499
Re: ZeroKs 0 KB file compression
I'm afraid you don't understand that creating a file on disk requires allocating data to describe your file characteristics (pathname, create time, access rights, etc.). This is called "meta-data" about the file. Here, you're converting N KB of data to X*N KB of meta data, with X >> 1. So 1) You're ...
- 13 Apr 2022 07:28
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: batch file code delete stubborn file ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4982
Re: batch file code delete stubborn file ?
What do you mean by stubborn file? Before going through complex and risky procedures like updating group policies, it'd be easier if we knew more about what you did, and what error messages you got. The most common cases are - A read-only file - A file for which you don't have the necessary user rig...
- 13 Apr 2022 07:07
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Generating consecutive dates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6318
Re: Generating consecutive dates
Aacini's algorithm does not calculate the date N days away. It displays N consecutive dates forwards (N positive), or backwards (N negative), starting at the given date. If you want N consecutive dates 1 to N days away, simply reverse the echo and set instructions in the inner-most loop blocks. And ...
- 31 Mar 2022 02:54
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: progress bar while copying (xcopy)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8839
Re: progress bar while copying (xcopy)
I did not not about esentutl.exe, thanks for the tip. But I just gave it a try, and (disappointingly) it does not work with network drives. (Which is the main case for which I need progress bars: When copying big files back and forth between my laptop at home and servers in the office.) The error sa...
- 29 Mar 2022 10:37
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: How to run Internet Explorer in Windows 11
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3932
How to run Internet Explorer in Windows 11
Microsoft has removed Internet Explorer in the latest releases of Windows 11... Or have they? Actually after a few days of panic, I understood that they haven't really. What they've changed is that the iexplore.exe program now starts Edge instead of Internet Explorer. For those of you who have shame...
- 16 Feb 2022 07:30
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Wmic.exe
- Replies: 26
- Views: 28194
Re: Wmic.exe
If they really remove it, I'm afraid we won't have a choice. Maybe we could write a wmic.bat front end to PowerShell, allowing to easily replace all wmic.exe commands by equivalent 'call wmic.bat' commands? Also, the justification they gave for the removal sounds poor at best: If they remove wmic.ex...
- 16 Feb 2022 07:16
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: [How-To] HEX dump raw data of a drive sector (PowerShell hybrid)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12114
Re: [How-To] HEX dump raw data of a drive sector (PowerShell hybrid)
Thank you, Jean-Francois, for your time! Steffen right, really powerful pack for all cases of life, works very fast! I've been trying use it since yesterday but haven't found an option of one line outputing... For example, I need to dump first 32 bytes of MBR sector which is counted as dec, not hex...
- 09 Feb 2022 12:16
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: [How-To] HEX dump raw data of a drive sector (PowerShell hybrid)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12114
Re: [How-To] HEX dump raw data of a drive sector (PowerShell hybrid)
Doing this in a script is an impressive achievement... But calling the WIN32 APIs directly in C is far more efficient! My old sector.exe tool, available in the System Tools Library , allows dumping disk sectors as hexadecimal, copying them to and from files, etc. I've even used it multiple times to ...
- 24 Jan 2022 04:56
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: [How To] Just another code with examples of VT (ANSI) escape sequences
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3120
Re: [How To] Just another code with examples of VT (ANSI) escape sequences
Excellent! I did not expect most of them to also work in the old console. What's the minimum version of Windows where all this will work? (In Windows 11, even those flagged "still buggy in Console" do work fine there.) Also I had never seen that method for generating the CR character. Is this faster...
- 24 Jan 2022 03:58
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Enabling TCPIP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3501
Re: Enabling TCPIP
PowerShell would probably be the good choice, as it has a rich set of network management functions. But in Windows XP you're limited to PowerShell v2, so I don't know how much is there yet. In the old cmd shell, you have the choice of netsh.exe, and wmic.exe (Ex: wmic nicconfig /?). Both are powerfu...