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Did you call your script WMIC.cmd/.bat?
That would explain this behaviour exactly.

I make a habit out of adding the file extension to programs used in scripts to avoid this (replace WMIC with WMIC.exe)

But it is always better to avoid naming your scripts the same as an already existing program.

Something like this should take care of that:

If one or more of your 80 filenames contains spaces, things will go wrong. Same goes for your %Folder%: if it contains one or more spaces, things go wrong. For example, in your .reg routine, replace For %%i In (%Folder%\*.reg) Do (regedit /s %%i) with: For %%i In ("%Folder%\*.reg") Do (regedit /s "%...

In your original code, there are some commands that will prevent a correct functioning. Note: just for a learning purpose; I would go with @aGerman's code. set enabledelayedexpansion should be: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion (setlocal /? or details) call calculate.exe -f %file_req% should be: call ...

Nice! But sadly it has the same issue as my code above. It wasn't intended to be a solution; just sharing some tips. @einstein1969 already found a fitting solution, but I would keep it simple: - Create a shorctut to cmd /c ... - and configure this shortcut to run minimized. - In this mysterious sof...

You could list all functions of a .COM object by using "$wshShell | Get-Member;" (within powershell): Thank you for this! Very useful! BTW, another way to start a process hidden from PowerShell: Start-Process -filepath "cmd.exe" -argumentlist "/c pause" -WindowStyle Hidden (Don't know in which vers...

Try it with wmic process where caption='notepad.exe' get creationdate /value Result is the starttime of notepad.exe: CreationDate=20200213231040.876129+060 You will have to do your own arithmetic to get the running time from that :) (there are several threads on this forum that can help you with that)

Thanks @jeb and @penpen; makes sense now.

(except for the "obvious" <nul method; will have to chew on that for a while ....)

penpen wrote: ↑

11 Feb 2020 07:42

You don't execute the echo-command but a single space!

You are right (that is what the error message says, after all), but I am obviously missing some in-between steps to make this a logical explanation.
If it is not too much effort/trouble, could you give some more details?

Ah, now I see .. you used double double-quotes! That will result in too many quotes here: REG Delete ""HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs" /V "C:\\Windows\\system32\\SCHelp.dll"" /F I would keep it simple: Keep the exceptions out of the FOR-loop, like this: for %%k in ( "HKLM\...

for %%k in ( "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs" /V "C:\\Windows\\system32\\SCHelp.dll" ) DO Echo REG Delete "%%~k" /F It deletes all values and "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs" That is expected when you do it like this: Between teh () are a list o...

Like your subject - "How to create a For loop to execute lines in the same .bat file" - already says: Use a FOR loop. Type FOR /? for (a lot) more information. An example: for %%k in ( "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Rainmaker Research" "HKCR\.1sc" "HKCR\.2sc" "HKCR\.3sc" "HKCR\.4sc" "HKCR\.5sc" ) DO echo REG Delete...

Thank you for clearing that up!

(After posting I realized that would make no difference what the answer would be (all in the past), but it was one of those things that kept nagging me ... Thanks for saving me )

These scriptlines: for %%x in (*.txt) do ^ echo %%x produces an error: ' ' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Removing the spaces before echo leads to the expected results. The question: Was it always like this? I am not entirely sure but I think I ...

When the maximum version is 9 , like FieldMap[9].jpg , you can make use of sorting filenames. ( Explorer and CMD sort files different. Explorer uses natural sort/logic sort (1,2,3,11,12), whereas CMD uses ascii sort (1,11,12,2,3) That is why the max is 9 for this) In code: @echo off md Backup for /f...