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I haven't tested this, but is it possible to use within ftp like you can from the command line? If so, this might be of some use.

What's really powerful about the batch foxidrive posted is that you can change the line: echo wget %%a --output-document=%%~nxb_%%~nxa to echo start wget %%a --output-document=%%~nxb_%%~nxa and it will launch each download as its own process, downloading everything in parallel. This may be a bit for...

I'm like you where I like to understand code (or at least all the test cases) before I implement or try to use it. I found it worth the time to figure out a 'replace' batch file that suited my purpose. Then, to avoid calling external batches, I simply incorporated the code into my own batch. It's si...

It was a bigger problem. I got the window to stop closing using pause like normal. Thank you for the assistance!

Post your rename scripts and some examples.

I hate to bump an older thread, but I think I'm facing the same problem the OP had with the dos window automatically 'exiting'. The batch file is just a single line with a for loop on it. I tried adding PAUSE after the for loop thinking that would stop the window from exiting, but it didn't. I tried...

Not sure why you would want to type this at the cmd line but go nuts. cmd /v:on /C "for /l %i in (101 1 110) do (set /a "n1=%i, n2=%i-1" & ECHO ren !n1:~-2! !n2:~-2!)" So I don't have to have a batch file just for the rename. So you are literally going to type this whole lin...

Very nice. I need to remember this for an upcoming batch where I'll need to a parse by tabs...

Well I will disagree with you all day and all night on that point. I do Automation for a Living. We have over 600 automated tasks that run every day. I would say about 100 of these are triggered by Task Scheduler every day. All these tasks are spread out over 3 application servers. Hasn't failed us...

Squashman wrote:Not sure why you would want to type this at the cmd line but go nuts.

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cmd /v:on /C "for /l %i in (101 1 110) do (set /a "n1=%i, n2=%i-1" & ECHO ren !n1:~-2! !n2:~-2!)"

So I don't have to have a batch file just for the rename.

Wonderful answers gentlemen! Thank you so much!

I'll be using this to parse a csv into another format.

I somehow remember some code for this on here, but I've searched and searched to no avail. Imaging a txt file with 4 columns of data delimited by tab or comma. Each column has different length of strings. Because each column's stringlength is different, you can't simply use sort /+n to sort the file...

Thank you foxidrive. I knew there was a simple answer, but couldn't find it.

I hate to bump an older thread, but is there an answer to this? I'm wondering the exact same thing.

I hate to bump an older thread, but is there an answer to this? I'm wondering the exact same thing.