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You can use this in XP and Windows 7... IF NOT "%USERNAME%"=="administrator" ( Do some commands for users ) ELSE ( Do some other commands Exit /b ) OR IF /I "%USERNAME%" NEQ "administrator" ( Do your commands for normal users ) ELSE ( Do other commands ) Actua...

That's awsome! Thanks Dave.

I guess I assumed at some point that since DOS would parse && and || that it would parse them anywhere, much like many of the other little tricks that work in multiple places.

Where did you find this syntax?

I could have sworn that this syntax worked, but maybe I'm losing my mind... IF "!Check!"=="BH" || IF "!Check!"=="TD" || IF "!Check!"=="RB" || IF "!Check!"=="RC" || IF "!Check!"=="AB" ( Some Commands )...

Ok I was looking at it wrong then... Here's what I get: Var2=^"eol^=^ ^ delims^=^" The blank line under delims is put there before I get the next pompt and not part of the definition. I also missed that quote. I'm going to guess that the ^ is actually escaping the quote in the definition t...

Welcome to the forums! Without seeing more of your script, it will be hard to tell for sure, but I think you're doing 1 of two things: 1. You're declaring the %RND% variable before doing any SetLocal and expecting that this is now a global variable and all mods to it would then also be global. The p...

Thanks Dave, that helped. So the \n is not functionally necessary, but since it's difficult to trouble-shoot macros without using the SET command, it makes them easier to read and find errors etc... And eol and delims end up just being = %LF% ? When I use the example you provided, it looks like they...

For purposes of understanding, all that CMD stuff in my macro can be replaced by passing a csv file through the FOR loop with the TYPE command like: FOR .... IN ('TYPE mycsvfile.csv') DO ... And in fact, that's all the output of the CSVFix command is doing is outputing line by line a CSV file, no di...

I figured it out. I needed to double-up the ^ before the parenthesis. The rest of the ^ were not eaten up by the set command, but those were.

I think I have a handle on this macro thing now

I still don't fully understand the %\n% but I know where to look for the explanation of it.

Ok, so my Batch just reached 250 lines and I'm only about halfway through it. It takes roughly about 10 minutes to run at this point and I though I thought I might be able to pick up some speed here, but I'm getting an error. SET LF=^ ::Above 2 blank lines are required - do not remove SET ^"\n=...

Have you tried it?

If you have multiple files with the same name you could run into problems but yes you can run a command or executable without the .exe or .bat, etc...

You can use Filever.exe Alan...

It's not an internal command, but it is native windows, but you do have to download it or extract it because by default it's not there I don't think...

Here's a link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913111

Just a few things...

Java is not a batch file.

If I were you I wouldn't just double-click something because my friends said so. Then again, I know who my friends are so maybe it's different in your case.

you need to disable DELIMS and EOL (there are a few recent posts that show how to do this) I use my ForEntireLine macro. So THAT is what that's for! You would think that with a name like "ForEntireLine" it would be obvious but sometimes you have to be beaten over the head with obvious bef...

One of the rules of :: inside brackets is that it always has to be followed by a valid command. Nevermind, I know why it works... a label is not valid as the last command in a block which is specified by ( and ). So as long as you have something even if it is echo.>null it's still a valid command. ...