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This should get you started.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/330 ... t-them-out

7 years. Your contributions and comraderie are missed.

Set a variable inside the loop. The variable will only be defined if the execution of the FOR command has data to parse. Then echo if the variable is defined. @echo off set "ITEMS-IN-THIS-FOLDER-WILL-BE-DELETED=C:\q\Corel Draw - CDR Auto-Backup Files\" set "file_flag=" for /r "%ITEMS-IN-THIS-FOLDER-...

Search the forum. This topic has been covered ad nauseam. Those threads will discuss the basics. 1) You are not creating an executable. You are creating a self-extracting file. It first extracts all the data to a temporary folder before executing. 2) The exe extracting the batch file to a temporary ...

Remember you are using a batch file. So any special characters need to be escaped. The closing parentheses thinks you are closing the FOR argument so it thinks the hyphen is a command. You need to escape them. for /f "usebackq tokens=1-3 delims=- " %%a in (` powershell.exe -Command "Get-EventLog -Er...

Momentarily i can't check whether or not notepad offers selecting a specific encoding for other versions of windows. Wow. I never even knew that was an option in Notepad. I have always just opened up a text file by using my mouse. Interesting to know that it is just guessing the wrong encoding. I w...

Hi Everyone. Long time no see. Got a new job working in the Unix world so kind of gave up on the batch file stuff. But........today my old job called me because of an issue with a text file they were viewing in notepad. The file was nothing but a single line. A trailer record in this case as the fil...

I just went back and looked at a lot of your threads. I see no reason why you shouldn't know how to do this already with all of the code you have been given the past 10 years. Many of your threads show the usage of the `FOR` command modifiers that allows you to split apart the path and file name and...

This is awesome! Thanks Antonio!

Windows terminal does not replace cmd.exe
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandl ... -2019-faq/

I don't expect that MS is going to remove WMIC from the CLI tools in the near future. Did you find any information that makes you believe they are about to do so, Squashman? However, PS is an alternative as well as JS. And if I have to calculate with datetime values, I already tend to use them rath...

What is everyone's plan for when Microsoft pulls the plug on wmic.exe? it has always been our stop gap for getting the date and time in a consistent format. I guess I dont mind calling out to Powershell. Penny for your thoughts.

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14 Feb 2022 21:03

It also works for the SECOND Script, I just needed to use !Created! instead of %Created%.

You would not need to use delayed expansion for the variable and all the other variables if you just got rid of the UNNECESARY parentheses.

Batch files execute each line in the script from top to bottom. Regardless of the goto, once the for command is done executing it is going to execute the next command in the script.