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I rechecked the results for the "netbios.dll"/"n<s" on my system with a path set to the test drectory only: Confirmed not executing "net.exe" in that scenario. (Maybe it's somehow is connected with the fact that i upgraded to win10 prof from win8.1 - but that's a shot into the blue.) Also, since "n<...

"no<<<<<" Launches notepad.exe, but in the top left corner of notepad window the icon does not look like notepad's. Also in the taskbar, the notepad window does not have the notepad icon. I'm betting the icon resource lookup doesn't recognize wildcards. According to "Process Monitor" (link in my fi...

On your system, what is the FIRST file returned from: DIR "%Windir%\System32\n<s.*" If you follow the 5 backtracking steps I showed, does it result in net.EXE ? On my system, the first file returned (of 12 files, including netbios.dll ) in DIR " C:\Windows\System32\n<s.* " is NarratorControlTemplat...

It's likely there's a matching file ending in "4" on your system. Yes, the file "Netwuw04.dll" ends on the character '4'. Applying this to the OP's example (on my system): "n<z" While i agree with most you said, there is a nitpick. I have a file named "netbios.dll" in "C:\Windows\System32". Therefo...

I am so sorry for making the above error and want to apologize.
I hope the /Y command wasn't preset in the COPYCMD variable,
so your test environment wasn't messed up.
Thanks to Squashman, for finding that error, i literally didn't see that.
I fixed the above code.

This might help you (untested): penpen

Edit: Corrected critical error, thanks to Squashman for seeing that.

Thanks to jeb, the cursor position could be read using the vt100 functionality with pure batch: https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9454&p=61318#p61322 Sidenote: You could do the same using C# to compile an executable file, which is done in the first post... but then you better might w...

I'm just curious - how did you create that file in windows?

penpen

I'm not sure i fully understand you: Except for exceptions that are able to completely abort batch file execution and the start-command used with specific arguments, that might open a new window, which might not be closed, nearly whatever programming logic you use in "Master_Batch.bat" shouldnt affe...

The expansion of wildcards within batch- and for-variable-expansion and is normal and i'm also pretty sure it was discussed here somewhere, but at the moment i can't find it. However, if i remember right, then the reason why your specific solution works is because the doublecolon character is an Alt...

Based on the first few files of the game i opened in notepad, i guess every file that contains an "echo" (no matter the case) might be a good candidate; assumed that the game main directory is located in "Z:", the following batch might help you to list them all: @echo off setlocal enableExtensions d...

Wildcard expansion rules can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6207#p39420.

The "*.*" case doesn't go haywire at all - the first match in your cases is the actual directory (".").


penpen

At the moment you don't call another batch file. You just tell the command line processor to execute a different batch file (with new parameters) instead of the actual one. It's like changing the disc in your DVD-Player - there can be only one. Previously processed batch files and progress in them a...

There are multiple ways to do that, just use the search function to look them all up. You might for example use the following save/load functions (untested): @echo off setlocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion call :init call :debug call :save set "value1=D" set "value2=E" set "value3=F" cal...

You might use ECMA-Script (JScript) to deal with JSON; see: - https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9049#p59302 - https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9049#p59297 - https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9049#p59303 - https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...