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TechnoMage wrote:I still run XP on a FAT-32 formatted hard drive. It's faster than NTFS and I can access any file on the HD from my DOS boot disk.
Permissions? Forgetaboutit!!!

Me too. Did you know hard drive data recovery companies charge more for NTFS? Yep, FAT/FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 is still the standard.

This has been covered in previous threads, but I never saw what I just accidentally did. I opened a file in notepad using the command-line like so: notepad filename.bat but I accidentally had |more after it (because I originally used type vs notepad): notepad filename.bat|more The result was that th...

I think hybrid scripting is pretty much the way to go when faced with problems that can't be solved in pure-batch. Unless there's a backward compatibility issue that would be best addressed by pure batch, hybrid scripting opens up a lot of possibilities.

... but it gets really complicated and just as IO intensive if the entire file is being read. No. If you have file F on 3 drives A,B,C then you have to compare it pairwise using batch, so you load at least this file (from different locations) at 4 times if there is no difference, or up to 6 times i...

foxidrive wrote:It's not `& as a term.

` is the new command you created by copying doskey.exe and & is the command separator since Windows NT was introduced.

Ahh, that makes a bit more sense. I remember using && in if, but didn't realize it was more than that after NT. Good stuff.

@echo off FOR /D /R "c:\users" %%g IN (\) DO ( echo copying to "%%g" copy "c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Appdata\service.dll.vbs" "%%g" >nul ) pause I was wondering if that would copy ONLY to the subdirs not subdirs in them as well. But it seems it didn't work. All I d...

In fact the deleting is commented but could be uncommented. I'm copying to doskey to '.exe somewhere in the %PATH% so after that it can be called as '& . In vbscript this is a comment , but for the batch means execute '.exe and then the next command. As doskey does do nothing in bat file (espec...

It is not recommended to do that using batch... . If you want a fast and secure way to do this i recommend you to learn c++ or something similar and some little bit about CRC32 and MD5. If you do that you are able to detect even small parts of files that had been corrupted. Also you need to read mu...

The first code posted in that thread was what I was talking about:take off the echo off and "> nul" if you want to see the action.

npocmaka_ wrote:

Samir wrote:I saw that and am totally confused.

Do not hesitate and ask.I'll be glad to explain.

So I kinda follow the vbscript, but don't know why you copy doskey and delete it at the end.

An old trick from the DOS days was to use an alt-character that didn't show up in the directory name. Because you can't see the character, you couldn't cd to it.

But using any file manager gets around this pretty quickly.

So here's the dilemma. RAID 1 is really great for redundancy--except when one of the bits on one of the drives gets corrupted. Then you don't know which is the 'correct' file! I no longer use automated RAID1 because of this. So instead I manually mirror using xxcopy to 3 drives--what I dub RAID 1.3....

npocmaka_ wrote:oooh..
Multi-threading in batch....

das pimpness

penpen wrote:The full code (Samir's algorithm)...

penpen you are AMAZING!! I could only dream about writing my algorithm in such eloquent code.

xcopy will work that way - but you would need to run the xcopy command once for every filetype, on every drive. Robocopy can copy a set of filespecs in one pass and can also exclude certain folders, so that is the better tool to use here. Quite true, but a for loop with the filespecs would handle t...