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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:...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...