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Hello, I used to add "EXIT" command at the end of my CMD scripts. 1. Is it good or bad ? Here is bellow a CMD/BAT script launcher (Launcher.cmd). It works fine but, if the selected launched script contains the EXIT command, the launcher process is killed (too) by this command. So, I cannot...

Hello,
On MS Windows Vista, is there a way (using DOS command):
1. to remove a printer (Start menu > C.Panel > Printers) ?
2. to apply "List Mode view" (in Win. Explorer) for ABSOLUTELY all folders of any kind (contact, picture, video, myfolders, ...)?

Thanks and regards.

Hello, In some case, the "System drive letter" is different of C:, and a script can use an absolute path like C:\folder\bla. So, this script cannot works if MS Windows is installed in a difference drive letter of C: Here is a script using an absolute path in the C: drive (where C: is the S...

Hello, Can a DOS subroutine return a value? Yes, sending to the subroutine the variable name to catch the returned value. See those 2 examples. Subroutine LeftCut returns the a string cut till the first left found character. Subroutine RightCut returns the a string cut till the first right found cha...

ECHO.[%1] ECHO. IF /i "%1"=="" (ECHO.*** USAGE: DRAG ^& DROP a File or Folder on This BATCH! ) ELSE (IF EXIST "%1\" (ECHO.This is a Folder.) ELSE (ECHO.This is a File.)) Pause&EXIT The idea to distinguish folders and files is to ...

Thanks a lot DosItHelp.
Another solution: http://www.ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=340

Hello, is it possible to do this mapping: IF NOT EXIST "S:\" NET USE S: \\192.168.100.11\SHARED IF NOT EXIST "J:\" NET USE J: \\192.168.100.11\SHARED\08.JOBS IF NOT EXIST "P:\" NET USE P: \\192.168.100.11\SHARED\00.PERSO\ALP using a FOR loop and 2 variables: SET drivers...

This script backups (as DOS commands), a folder's tree structure. Then use the built script "Flat2Tree.cmd" to rebuild the folder's tree structure from all files in the root level. Is that clear what I'm saying to explain ?? - Of course, it ignores files located in the root level. - All fi...

Hello, I got this I.E. favourites from Korea: m I would collect/merge all URL string from .url files (subdirectory too) to get (in URLs1.txt) this kind of result: http://www.domaineX.com http://www.domaineY.org http://www.domaineZ.net Only the domaine name (or full URL string). The difficulty is due...

Hello,
this command: FSUTIL FSINFO DRIVES
outputs something like:

1. How to get drives list, one by line?


2. How to get "Drives: A:\ C:\ D:\" in a variable's value?
Thank in advance.

Using the DOS command TYPE for some files you can hear a sound, then (in some cases) the process displaying the file's content stops (few characters later). This is my start point idea to play a sound in DOS. From an Excel file (.xls) I extracted a character playing a sound, and I surrounded it by l...

Sorry,
It doesn't work. But this works fine:


So, use %% instead of single % in path using %

Thanks anyway.

Hello, Some portable softwares have sub-folders named like %AppData% i.e. percent char in the name. Portable Adobe Photoshop CS3 Standard (folder structure) _ CSDATA __ %AppData% ___ Adobe ____ Adobe Photoshop CS3 _____ Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings _____ - Actions Palette.psp (19.65 kilobyte) _____ ...

Sorry DosItHelp, In fact, my question was "wrong". I just would create an HTML file with links based on URL files in the tree folder. Where the BAT is in the root of this tree. AND the parent folder name containing a URL file, is added just befor the HTML link. I found a solution: SET z=%~PD0LiNKS.h...

Hello, Last level folder= folder that have no sub folder. Here is the script putting links of .URL files (web page shortcut) in a links.html file, from the current folder and sub folders. Url2Htm.bat @ECHO OFF SET z=%~PD0Links.hTM TYPE NUL>"%z%" (FOR /F "Tokens=1,2,* Delims=:=&quo...