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Interesting jep!

dostips should have a section for "interesting behaviors".
Another thing about rem is the effect of the dot:

Hi phillid, I wanted same for dostips.com and investigated. From what I learned - if your hosing provider supports webdav then you can provide file access like "\\live.sysinternals.com\tools\pslist.exe" and execute this from a command line or from within a batch. I haven't figured out yet ...

The brackets are not balanced, a closing bracket missing somewhere near the end. Another thing I noticed is that the "If %R%==%RS%" condition will never be true because R will will be 0<R<1000, but never 1000, because "%random% %% 999" will return a random number 0<=number<999. D...

Very interesting Jan - thanks for sharing this!

This line executed at the command line creates the text file with the 'CR CR' in it in the current directory.

Hi Jeff, you could post an example of the path you start with and what you would like it to be converted to. May be then I or someone else can help you.

Egulk, I don't know how to check if a files is done uploading. Here an alternative that may work for you: Have the upload script upload the files into a different folder. When done uploading have same upload script move the file over to the target folder with a single FTP "rename" command....

bre, You will need to escape special characters like this: @echo AutoNetwork ^<BNS_VPN^> >> test.txt Optionally use FOR command like this: (for %%A in ( "ComputerName %ComputerN" "AutoNetwork <BNS_VPN>" "AutoPassword <password>" "ChatColorLogBack 000000" "...

Try

echo %COMPUTERNAME%

sax, Try this. I have done some testing. It also works for files with spaces in it. Replace the section "Extract Ftp Script to download files..." with this: REM -- Extract Ftp Script to upload files that don't exist in remote folder Set "FtpCommand=mput" For %%A In (%FileList%) D...

Well not sure whats going on. Below an alternative implementation you can try. @echo off set "str=This string is 33 characters long" call:strlen str pause&goto:eof :strLen string len -- returns the length of a string via binary search, maximum length 1023 :: -- string [in] - variable n...

Hey The Great One, I simplified your batch a little and added the percentage-correct at the end. @echo off set /a right=0, wrong=0 echo 1: Take Test echo 2: Exit set /p userinp=choose a number(1-2): set userinp=%userinp:~0,1% if "%userinp%"=="2" GOTO:EOF cls echo What is ...

sj10, There is actually a bug in the batch file. To fix this replace the IF statement in the batch script from: if "%*"=="" findstr "^::" "%~f0"&GOTO:EOF to: if "%~1"=="" findstr "^::" "%~f0"&GOTO:EOF Let me know...

robbot, To process a number with up to 3 digits in the "set /a" command and avoid problems with leading zeros, simply prefix the number with 1000 during assignment and use modulo arithmetic to remove the added value, e.g.: set numstr=002 set /a num=1000%numstr% %% 1000 rem now num equals 2...

Good point ghostmachine4. To make it transparent to batch users here a batch function that creates the vb script on the fly and uses it. @echo off ::BatchSubstitude - parses a File line by line and replaces a substring" ::syntax: BatchSubstitude.bat OldStr NewStr File :: OldStr [in] - string to...

mikehirst - very nice the way you made use of the menu loop presented at DosTips.

I think you can remove the "cmd /c " in front of each call, the start command should take care of everything.