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For some reason after I "right click" and "run as Administrator" Be aware that if you start your script like that, you will end up with a completely different %USERNAME% if you weren't logged in as a local administrator. My advice: Split your script in a SYTEM part and a USER part. (although there ...

Thank you for this!

And yet another way: If you have cygwin or Linux Subsystem for Windows (*) installed, you can do: c:\Tools\cygwin64\bin\sort --field-separator "|" +4 --numeric-sort filename.txt or short: sort -t "|" +4 -n sort filename.txt (sort by field 4 (first=0) ; use natural sort) (*) or whatever it is called ...

if %max% % 1 neq 0 (goto InvalidMaximumIsNotAnInteger) If you want to do calculations in batch, use set /A ... set /a TEST=%max% %% 1 if %TEST% neq 0 (goto :InvalidMaximumIsNotAnInteger) Further: you need to rethink this code: set /a result=(%RANDOM%*%max%/32768)+%min% For example, if min=1000, max...

Welcome to the forum! :) Thanks! ... a general-purpose solution ... I never had the illusion that this was a universal solution. Most times you know what format/layout the output will be. And if suitable, this is a short, straightforward fix. (But hadn't thought about %'s and /'s) Impenetrable spag...

specify a path to the logfile, so you are not depending on the current working directory.
For example if you run elevated, the default cwd is c:\windows'system32.


set LOGFILE=%~dp0log.txt
....
@echo [%time%] [Command] "%choice%" >> "%LOGFILE%"

Not all systems have powershell by default. You are right. I subtitled "remote machines" in my head as servers, but that isn't necessarily the case (servers without PowerShell are very hard to come by) A batch syntax is simpler and more familiar to most people. The batch scripting is funnier than p...

Why would anyone try to accomplish this in CMD these days, when there is PowerShell? A hybrid soultion: @echo off setlocal echo. Start = %TIME% for /f "usebackq tokens=1,* delims=: " %%x in (`powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -executionpolicy bypass "(get-date) - (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSyst...

Just reading the String Manipulation page . There is another way - beside the ones mentioned on that page - to remove leading and trailing spaces: set str= 15 Leading and Trailing Spaces to truncate &rem echo."%str%" for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ("%str%") do set str=%%~pnxA set str=%str:~1% echo."%str%"...

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(I started to think the forum went dead ..)

sort /unique :shock: Thank you!! I was using a 3rd party SORT especially for that. Thanks for mentioning that undocumented feature. Yet another way (of the many) to approach this: @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%x in (*-*.csv) do ( set COMBI=%%x if not exist "!COMBI:~0,2!.csv" copy ...

If your CSV files are rather small ( couple of hundred lines each), this should do it:
For larger files, the copy syntax copy fileA + fileB is probably faster.

Assuming this is an XY-problem: Easiest way that I know is replacing the for ... DO ( <lots of commands> ) with: for ... DO call :label . That will even get rid of the setlocal/endlocal pair. I didn't understand what you were trying to accomplish, but this should give you some inspiration: @echo off...

Just discovered this forum a couple of days ago and I have to say that it contains a wealth on information and groundwork research on batch mechanics. Very interesting! One of the things I noticed is the hybrid VBSsript - batch approach used in several threads to run commands elevated. Here is a pur...

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26 Jul 2019 14:08

You can using this.
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Thank you !!
Very elegant (and looking deceivingly simple ...)