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Hi,

How do I obtain the yesterday date for MSDOS batch?

I am curently doing the following which is faulty. I am not sure how I can deduce the date correctly. Please advise. Thanks.

CM
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I try to create a batch file to run under Windos XP in a command window (or just double clicking the BAT file).

The intention is to take all files with a given extension, concatenate them and add some extra information "between the files". To...

Can someone show me WORKING SAMPLE SYNTAX to turn a exe into a service with the sc.exe utility?

I turned a batch file into a exe with a bat2exec utility, but no dice on getting it to run as a service.

::simple bat contents
:again
ping...

Hi, I want to have a batch file that will:

1. Check to see if the file exists
2. Try to delete it if it does exist
3. Output what happened

I got something here but it's not doing what I want.  For example, if the file doesn't exist, it...

At the command prompt (Windows XP system), if I type in the command:

net use x: /delete /y

it will delete the drive mapping, but only if not in use.

is there a way to force the deletion *even if files are in use*??
(i know this can lead...

First of all I am aware that DosBox is intended for gaming but it is the only program that will allow 16 bit apps in a 64 bit enviornment.

I am trying to make DosBox print to an lpt port in windows 7 64 bit. I found a version of DosBox that is...

Hi,

My Symantec Endpoint Protection Server running on Windows 2003 crashed and i have to rebuild the same. Now all my clients are not part of the Endpoint Protection Server and i want to bring all of them to the new Endpoint Protection Server....

I am getting the error message "The system cannot find the drive specified." when I use multiple comment lines in the "do" portion of a "for" line in my batch file.  OS is Windows Server 2003 and also happens on Windows XP.

I am using "::" to...

Hi,

I have Web Logic Server,  Forms/Reports 11g all installed on my PC with XP.
I created a hello.fmb and generated hello.fmx on my c:\temp

How to run this form?
    What services need to be started 1st?
    What URL to use ?
    Can I...

How do I create a batch file that will read a csv or txt file as input to ping a list of computers and then output a file of the computers that did not reply? I will not be pinging IP addresses; I will be pinging computer names. I've been using...

hello,
i have a very tough problem.  i have to update about 500 computers (1 msi file) and would like to do this with a bat file (user will execute the bat file,  ill send an email to the users with the network path to the file ) This bat file...

Recently, I just turned 2 of my 3 domain controller servers back on after being off for quite a while.  Each one is configured to replicate AD from one to another one.  However when the replication process is started I get a exceeded tombstone...

Experts,

In a DOS command window running Windows XP, I can enter the command:
 
notepad filename.txt &

and notepad opens a file with the name filename.txt for editting, but allows me to continue to use the command window for additional...

Hi All,

Looking for DOS (Ghost 11.5) NDIS drivers for a Dell Optiplex 390 with an onboard Realtek ethernet card.  I download drivers from both Dell and Realtek but I can get my USB Ghost boot key to work.  I have other drivers on this boot key...

I am piping data into a txt file in windows 2000 with a CMD file like this:

ECHO %date% , %TIME% >> Mylog.txt

The data is being stored like this:

Wed 06/29/2005,17:22:57.98

How do I get it to pipe like this:


06/29/05,17:22

...

I'm writing a windows batch script to uninstall some software.  I need to be able to find the GUID with my script.

I can find it other ways outside of the script but I want to know how to do it within the script.

I looked in...

If I have environmental variables like:

X3DESTDIR="C:\Destination Folder"
X4DESTFIL="\zzzfiles\SubfolderLevel2\SubfolderLevel3\file 553.zzz"

how can the two strings be concatenated.  The use of percent signs like

SET...

I am trying to use psexec to run remote DOS commands on a server. Unfortunately I am not permitted to copy the files I am running to the remote machine for security reasons. Therefore I have used the following command...

psexec cmd

This...

Big points because of the urgency. In the following batch file I generate a CHM file, but the CHM compiler is not reliable. As a result I want to check if my batch file is smaller than roughly 2 megs and abort copying it to the clean file...

Hello,

I'm trying to trim whitespace from a string variable.  I've figured out how to left trim, but can't figure out how to right trim.  There are some examples on the web, but to work they make assumptions like the maximum length of string,...

In VB Scripts you can supress and resume errors by using "On Error Resume Next".  How can you do that in a DOS batch file?

I have a script that shuts down virtual servers in VMware for backup purposes, but if the virtual server is already...

Hello

How can I get the return (or exit) code of a batch script when it completes? In this case I'm calling a batch script within another batch script (using 'call batch_prog.bat') and I need to get the return code of the patch_prog when it...

I am trying to copy some files into the %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 folder.

I DO NOT want to over write any existing files (skip existing files).

I need to include this command in a batch files.  I have gone through all the xcopy commands, but...

Hi,

I have a batch file to connect to the remote server using the net use command and i am using a service account for it.
But, the problem is that the password is in clear text so is there any way so that i can encrypt the password or any...

Is there a case or switch statement in dos to use it in the batch file?

Thanks.

Hello All,

I'm new to web programming so i'm trying a few tutorials to improve my understanding of how to load and configure web application solutions and projects in VS2005 and came across what will probably be  a simple error for most of you...

Hi,

I'm having a text file which i want to read through a .cmd file

Sample Text file: abc.txt
Line 1
Line 2

Please note: i want to read only through the .cmd file and i want these two lines has to go into two separate variable in the...

Where can I down load a full version of MS-DOS that works???  I really need one, someone deleted it off my computer.

I've got a dos batch file that is scheduled to run every night to copy/backup files from different workstations at different branches to my server across different VPN links.

Right now, the batch file runs one line after the other.  Is there...

I would like to automate a series of NSLOOKUP commands. We use nslookup to generate a list of entries in our DNS

Because these commands are run from inside NSLOOKUP is there any way to make a batch file or script to run the series of...

Hi,

I'd like to reformat drive D. Windows XP installed on drive C. Those are actual two hard disks.
In command prompt I typed format D:
Below is copied text from cmd window:

<<<

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright...

Hi,

I have a bat file but need to convert it to an msi file. How can I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

What is the easiest / fastest (and free!) way (under DOS or Windows) to delete pagefile and hibernation file from my NTFS system partition so that I can take a ghost image?

Notes:
1) I currently boot up BartPE (installed on a dos partition)...

Hello,

I would like to know how to export tasks and import tasks using command line in windows 2008.

Currently i have this command which exports all tasks to a single xml file.
schtasks /query /xml > AllTasks.xml

However, when trying to...

I appreciate that Ghost is a pretty old fasioned way of imaging PC's, but I've just not had the time to learn RIS.

I have just purchased some Toshiba L630 laptops that have Atheros AR8151 Gigabit LAN onboard.
I order to ghost the HD i usually...

Hello Gents,

Can you pls have a look @ this statement...

I can't get the ELSE statement to work.... (the batch closes, and can't see the error)
The IF is working....

I would like to move a file to a dir "1" IF its bigger then 300 kb....

Hi experts

Windows XP doesn't have the old Win9x CHOICE command, but there is a workaround using SET /P instead.  I know I can copy over Choice.com from a Win98 system and use that, but does anyone know of any other ways to create a menu in...

Hello all,

I have a current need for a way to automate login and commands to fiber switches (Brocade, McData) from a DOS batch file, and save the output to a text file.  I cannot install an application, as this will be run on different windows...

Hi,

I want to read a xml file inside a batch file to read a value in specific tag of xml file. The value read from the xml has to be stored a variable inside the batch file.Your help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Is there a way in a batch file to have the user input a variable without using the SET /P

I would like a menu count down for 15 seconds then automatically pick the default option at the end of the set timer. The example would be something like...

Previously I recieved help from SteveGTR to create the batch file below which changes the UserName variable into a different format then calls on a standard PRF file and creates a new one with the correct UserName format.  The problem was that...

Hi All,


I've written a batch script that runs via a scheduled task.  It runs fine with my user-id, but not under a normal user account i created to run it.


Question: what permission do i need to run a batch script on a windows 2003...

Here is a quick 50 points. What is the maximum file size limit for fat16 and fat32? I have tried to copy a 4gb file to a fat32 drive but it pukes. I suspect it is a file size limit.

Thanks.

Does anyone know how to write up a login script to copy a shortcut link to the "all users" desktop?

This is what I have now, but it fails.


copy \\sqlserver\focus\focus.lnk %COMPUTERNAME%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

What...

I am trying to mirror a network share to another server using Robocopy.  Half the files and folders work ok, however the other half I get this message:

ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory

All help appreciaited!

Okay, this is what I'm trying to do, I want to install OpenOffice 3.3 silently with a batch of other programs included.  I'm trying to add it to my current batch file, but I wrote it seperately at the moment.

This is SUPPOSED to install...

I am trying to use the certutil command in windows command line to add a certificate.  With this I am trying to install a certificate to the personal folder which can be seen in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).  I have gotten far enough to...

I am PsExecing to a remote computer to launch a batch file named remote_fd_info.cmd.
In that command it runs the following: fcinfo | find "PortWWN" >> test.txt file.
I'm passing the credentials I need on the remote system and therefore I...

Hi
I want to register a dll on 200 users and they don't have admin rights on their PC. is there a way i do this remotly.

thanks in advance.

We (unfortunately) still use a DOS program that will of course only print to a LPT port, but we only have TCP/IP printers on the network.  I need to redirect any print job sent to LPT1 to a specific printer's IP address.

I am aware of the
...

I would like to find out what drives are mapped on a remote computer using net use. When I run this command net use //computername I don't see that output like you would if you were running the command on the local machine.

Does anyone no how...

Hi,

I want the date format as Follows May 1st 2004 as 050104.
I am using the following code in my batch file.
set date=%DATE%
set time=%TIME%

for /f "tokens=2-7 delims=/: " %%a in ("%date% %time%") do (
set vDate=%%a%%b%%c

)

I am...

I'm trying to launch a command window on a remote computer.  The way it works on the local computer is that I have a .bat file that I can double click or run from a cmd window and it runs a .exe.  I have used Remote Desktop to log into the remote...

Im in the process of creating a .bat file that
1. Creates a LPR port
2. installs a printer and driver

my script thus far is this

REM       Win7 sys32 Installer
REM      1-26-10 (j.f.)
REM       ONCE THIS INSTALLER HAS STARTED DO NOT STOP IT...

I have a folder of files.  From within a batch job, I want to rename them by adding a prefix onto the name using wildcards.  Using DOS under Win 2K, when I try it, the two character prefix ends up replacing the first two characters of the name.  ...

Due to serious lack of sleep I am having difficulties concentrating on the following:

The problem is this. The simple condiional statements work well on their own however, when the conditional statements are combined the code produces an...

Hi,

I need to create a DOS batch file to run one of many possible programs, determined by the argument (a number) to the script.

What I'd like is if there is no argument given to the script, then it should give a list of the possible...

Hello:
I am using the XCOPY command from a DOS session on an XP Pro PC.  I need to know if there is any way to display a progress bar  while XCOPY does its thing.  I guess I am looking for something ot display (on a per-file basis) the number of...

I'm running a perl script from a Windows 2000 Dos Prompt. This script generates output on stdout and stderr. I want to capture both of these into a single file. I can capture them both into seperate files using:

command.pl 1>stdout.txt...

This isn't so much of a question as a notation of odd behavior.  I have always assumed that the batch interpreter interprets multi-line blocks as a single line as follows:

if [%1]==[] (
  echo No parameters!
  goto :EOF
)

gets...

Is there a way to make a bat file wait a or delay a set period of time like 30 sec?

Hello,

I am attempting to write a dos batch file which will replace a string within a file.  I have utilised the FIND command to find the strings within the file.  However I am unable to replace the string with another.  Do any of you know of...

I have this little loop to copy and delete files to a zip disk.  I am using this to test the longevity of the disk.  I would like to add a counting routine to this loop to display how many times the loop has ran.  Can someone please help me on...

Hi,

I am trying to set up a batch file that uses schematron to validate xml data.  However, I am having some trouble with the DOS command syntax, I keep getting an error message "was unexpected at this time" at various points in my program...

Due to a problem in WSUS I need to delete registry keys on up to 250 networked machines.

The process below needs to be run...
delete the below keys..
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\SUSClientID...

HI,

i get error 'File not found' when i run a bat file that normally works. It's failing now because it's not taking the relative path, it's reading instead from another default location. How can i change the bat file to fix this? Bat file is:...

I have a DOS batch script test.bat in a network directory. When I executed it, I got the error message:
---
'\\netdir\test'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows...

Users on my network have a logon script called LOGON.BAT

I want to perform specific processing based upon day of the week.  Basically if the day of the week is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday I want some specific processing to take...

Hello Experts:

Currently I have an access db that runs the macro to create odbc connection to connect to sql server and below is the code that I use. I need to create odbc connection through the batch (bat) file. I need help writing that bat...

Hi,

I'm trying to create a .bat file that shows a progress bar while a command is runing, such as a xopy command, for example. In my code, i'm just pinging the localhost.

What I want is to have a bar with 10char and when running the...

I'm trying to move rightfax images from one drive to another using the forfiles command but for the life of me I can't seem to get the command right.  I keep getting the syntax of the command is incorrect.
Here's what I have

forfiles /p...

Im using psexec -s \\computer cmd to remote to a machine under the localservice account

Once there I try and do a net use like this

net use x:\\remotecomputer\share$

Error: The password is invalid for \\remotecomputer\share$

Any...

The command: for /f %a in ('time/t') do echo %a

The above command outputs the current local time. What command do I use to get an output in 24-HR time?

For example: If I run this command at 6pm, it will output '6:00pm'. I want to see...

How can I echo special characters to the command line using MS DOS 'echo' command?

For example, I want to echo a greater-than sign or a less-than sign, rather than DOS thinking I'm redirecting something.

  echo <
  echo >

does anyone know what the command and syntax are to move a batch of files (anything up to approx 200) and delete them as they are moved, not at the end of copying them.  The problem is that files could be placed onto the server as the copy...

Windows 2000 or Windows XP:

In the explorer GUI if I right click on a file I have a "VERSION" tab if the file has this attribute.  How do I read this from the command line?

I am trying to run a command on a remote machine with the following:


C:\>psexec \\BTOP-1028 -u administrator -p 12345678 CMD


The message below is the result. I am logged on as an administrator. I would have expected the command prompt...

I found the below article on another site (Link provided at the bottom of my post) Essentially it talks about creating a wait command however when I follow the directions it says that " "CHOICE" is not a recognized internal or external command,...

I need to create a batch file to execute two exe's (file1.exe & file2.exe).  These files are zip archives that self-extract.  The important thing here is that file1.exe needs to be unzipped first before file2.exe starts unzipping.  (It will show...

How to read file in batch file .  

I have a file called records.txt and it has a value of "5".  Now I want to read this file in a.bat file and get "5" value into a variable.  Can any one help me how to do this

Thanks
Sridhar.B

Hi All,

I have a command script that performs the following tasks:

1. Opens a PDF File on a server
2. Prints it
3. Renames the file
4. Loops to the next file

I am having a problem getting the script to close adobe reader after it has...

I'm trying to rename SF0310271145.CSV (SFyymmddhhmm.csv) to SISCR12mmddhhmm.csv in command prompt using 'rename' but it truncates the filename.

Here's what I enter at the prompt...

   ren SF03*.CSV SISCR12*.CSV


The result is...

  ...

I've had some issues lately with a server not rebooting when its been told to. I've tried using the shutdown command with force flags but nothing seems to work. The only way I can get it to reboot is a hard-reboot.

Is there any software or...

We do a lot of backups before we 'play with program' configurations, as I am sure everyone does.  We like to use an  XCOPY command in a batch file to copy entire directory trees to another location as a backup.  We also output the results of that...

I've got a batch script and it needs to delete archive folders that are older than 4 days.  Here are the steps the batch files does (extreme pseudocode):

Delete archive folders older than 4 days
Create archive folder for today ("04_05_2007")...

I am trying to get a FTP batch file to prompt the user for a login ID and password.  I found code on this site but I do not have much FTP experience and am having trouble applying it to my batch file successfully.  Any help is greatly...

Experts - I am writing a web-app that will in essence upload a file via FTP to a mainframe running (MVS).  I could not get the FTP part to work so I simplified things.  Now I am just trying to use the DOS ftp command-line utility to upload the...

I'm trying to figure out which XCopy switch combinations will allow me to look into subfolders for missing files and only copy those missing ones only.

Example:
PC1 has -> C:\Folder\Subfolder1\Pic1.jpg
              ->...

I am automating the use of robocopy from the WIndows Server 2003 Resource Kit.

I have been unable to find any information on the exit codes.  From what I can tell, anything less than 8 is a success anything above is a failure.  Does anyone...

i am trying to use PSexec to delete a directory on a list of computers. I am not real good at writing Bat files so not sure if i should use a bat file to do this. i have tried sending normal delete commands but from what i am reading a bat file...

I have a batch file that I want to add the ability to find the position of a character in a string that the user types in and is maintained in the %1, %2, ... variables. This is a DOS batch file.
Example, the user types in "1234.5678" I want to...

The following installation command with the 7z920.msi file has been working.
msiexec.exe /i "7z920.msi" /qn

But I found that the 7-Zip File Manager didn't set up all file associations automatically after the silent installation. How can the...

I am trying to create a process using either a command or a bat file that I can kick off at a dos prompt in windows xp that will open internet explorer to a url, print the url, and close ie. I know I can do "START iexplore.exe www.whatever.com"...

Hi all and thanks for your help in advance.

I am trying to get a list of all the address leases we have across multiple DHCP scopes in our environment.

When I run the below command it only gives me a list of the scopes but not the address...

Experts-
I am doing an XCOPY for a directory. I want to copy the directory to have a datestamp with the current date. So, if I copy the foo directory on June 1, 2007, the copied directory would be foo_06012007 or foo_01JUN2007. Can someone...

I'm looking for a command line utility which allows me to send CTRL+ALT+DEL, so that I can lock the computer after a batch file run.

I need a batch script that will download multiple files from a remote (unix) site.  The catch is I need to safely delete those that I download safely.  How do I do that?  

I have to use a batch file.  My script so far is attached:

Hi All,

I'm not going to pretend that I know much about DOS batch files other than fairly simply operations. Here's the situation at hand: I need a file that will loop through a directory and for each file in that directory, call a Java jar...