Hi,

We are trying to take a regular path and convert it to "short name".  For example:

The normal path:    


Convert  it to:


We understand fir /x returns the short name of a folder or file, but  we are  trying  to convert specific path.

How can we go about this?
(we use Windows 10)

We need to create a bat file for our Delphi program (Windows environment) in order to help our personnel for avoiding manual operations and possible deleting some crucial files.
I  am trying  to explain you  it simply

We have a shared folder located on Z (map network drive) with name X , so
The folder contains a subfolder with name active
•      Every person who is assigned a task (e.g a car plate) is put into active folder.
•      Every person who is free (able to be assigned a job) is outside active folder

For example, We have for the active folder the following
We only use Greek characters for the name of the files.
If a car with plate KNK1234 is assigned to ABC person then the file is
ABC_ΚΝΚ1234.ini, where ABC is the full name of the employee

What we want is
a pilot menu so every time somebody clicks the bat file open a window which says
Which person you want to release? (I will translate all the text into Greek language)
It will display the name of the employees (We can modify it , so the program will read only the names which are inside the active directory)
I will provide the name of the employees (about 6-7 persons)
Do you want to release name of employee Yes or No
Release process (Every time the work on a car is completed, the worker is automatically released from the program.)
There are, however, sometimes for some reasons (repeating a process, etc.), which should be released through a process.

The full name of the person…

what is the command to copy and entire drive with permissions to another server?

How can I run a batch file from within a Word macro?

Most of my work involves video editing.
The folders (Dir) where I keep originals, copies, pre/post-edit files and so forth are all set with the following "sort" attributes (columns):
Name - Length - Size - Frame Width - Frame Height - Data Rate

For each new folder I create or Copy/Move I have to redo all these attributes again, specially when I copy a folder since it always seems to default back to:
Name- Date Modified - Type - Size or similar values.

You can imagine the amount of time & effort required to do this for all new or copied folders..
I've tried every conceivable syntax with Robocopy and cant get it to work for these reasons:
1. When I open CMD it defaults to the current User, which does have Admin rights, but I can't get Robocopy to work with the "COPYALL" or any other syntax other than "\e" and that only gives me a copied Dir/sub-Dir again with default values..
2. When I open CMD and "Run as Admin" it goes to C:\ .. which is fine, except the DIR Im trying to copy shows as "Cannot find path specified" ..

The main Dir Im trying to work with is located:
C:\Users\AV Masters\Video\Edits
I created 2 test folders (DIRS) under \AV Masters\ .. called AVTEST1 and AVTEST2
AVTEST1 contains a sub-Dir named "AV" which contains some sample videos to test this copy process..

What I'm trying to accomplish:
Create one main folder (Dir) with a sub-Dir that contains the video files I want..
Whenever I need to create a new folder/Dir somewhere or copy an …

The original filename is "test.txt".
The requirement is to append the date + Timestamp (format yyyymmdd_hhmmssmsi.txt) at the point the file "test.txt" is generated.


yyyy - year
mm - month
dd - day
ss - second
msi - milli-second

I don't have xcopy for Windows 2000.

I want to write a super simple DOS bat file to do this daily:
1) Copy all files in C:/SourceDirectory and in C:/SourceDirectory2 to D:/DestinationDirectory that are created or modified after and including June 1, 2017.
2) Create a copy of  D:/DestinationDirectory and rename it as DestinationDirectory_MMDDYY where MMDDYY is the current month, day and year.

How do I do this?

I use Ola Hallengren's maintenance for all of my customer's, https://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-backup.html.
Have used it for years, never any real problems -- until now.  For some reason the @CleanupMode and @CleanupTime are not working. The backup step is configured to retain bak files for only 24hrs, and to cleanup the old bak before generating the new.  For some reason, it is not working, and the job keeps failing due to insufficient disk space.

My temporary workaround is below.  I am deleting the largest bak file from disk as a first step in the job, until I get Ola's logic corrected.  Well, it works great as-is, but I've found I need to run it for all subdirectories.

The way it works now is to del the bak file in this path explicitly:
SET @path = 'dir \\backups\servername\dbname\FULL\'

I need it to delete the bak files from all subdirectories within \\backups\servername\

Any help?

SET NOCOUNT ON;

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#files') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #files;
CREATE TABLE #files (Line VARCHAR(512)) 
DECLARE @path VARCHAR(49) 
DECLARE @cmd1 VARCHAR(155)
DECLARE @cmd2 VARCHAR(155)
DECLARE @filename VARCHAR(255)
SET @path = 'dir \\backups\servername\dbname\FULL\'
SET @cmd1 =  @Path+' /A-D  /B' 
--PRINT @cmd1

INSERT #files
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @cmd1
DELETE #files WHERE Line IS NULL
--SELECT * FROM #files

SET @filename = (SELECT Line FROM #files)
SET @cmd2 = 'del \\backups\servername\dbname\FULL\' + @FileName
--PRINT @cmd2

IF EXISTS(SELECT

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is there a DOS command to run to get list of all NT group that contain a certain word like 'sql', 'Reporting' etc.
thanks.

Thanks to the way Amazon Music downloads MP3s, I have 704 files in 592 directories. I want to copy all of the files into a single directory. I tried a utility called XXCOPY. All the files copied to one directory but in doing so all of the filenames were modified to contain the directory structure. Poor solution. Anyone have another idea?

We have a dos computer with ages old accounting software that is absolutely crucial to this day in our company. We use dbase and compile the .prg text files into executable programs. is there a way to write and compile dbase programs under linux. if so what's the best way to go about it. I saw something called flagship and harbor but i'm not sure if this will do the trick. Has anyone ever come up with a solution to compile dbase prg txt file under linux? Any help or more explanation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Please give me one help
Error:
   How to send email by blat as per script below?

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

rem Set destination folders for each weekday, Sunday = 1
set Dest[1]=BKP1-DOM
set Dest[2]=BKP2-SEG
set Dest[3]=BKP3-TER
set Dest[4]=BKP4-QUA
set Dest[5]=BKP5-QUI
set Dest[6]=BKP6-SEX
set Dest[7]=BKP7-SAB

REM Get day of week number, Sunday = 1
for /f "skip=2 tokens=2 delims=," %%a in ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get DayOfWeek /Format:csv') do set /a DowNum=%%a + 1

rem Set todays destination folder
set DestDir=!Dest[%DowNum%]!

rem Copy todays files to their destination folder
set HadErrors=N
    
    XCOPY C:\BNET_CIT\ATI\*.*                       C:\BNET_BACKUP\%DestDir%\ATI\   /S /Y  || (set HadErrors=Y)
    XCOPY C:\BNET_CIT\CIA\*.*                       C:\BNET_BACKUP\%DestDir%\CIA\   /S /Y  || (set HadErrors=Y)

rem Check for any errors during copies and send email
if "%HadErrors%" EQU "Y" (
  rem Send email indicating failure here

  REM * Uses blat.exe and body.txt as body of message:
     set dir=C:\BNET_BACKUP\1_Blat_SendMail_v3217\full
     set hostname=servername
     set subject="* O Backup Falhou. Verifique o erro e tome as devidas providencias."
     set toaddress=xxx@xxx.com.br
     set receipt=NO

) else (
  rem Send email indicating success here

  REM * Uses blat.exe and body.txt as body of message:
     set dir=C:\BNET_BACKUP\1_Blat_SendMail_v3217\full
     set hostname=servername
     set subject="* O Backup foi executado 

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I'd like to be able to run a weekly script on my domain workstations (Windows 7 and windows 10) that will populate a CSV log with username, computername and last successful windows update.

What I currently have is this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
SET filename="C:\Windows\System32\catroot2\dberr.txt"
FOR %%f IN (%filename%) DO SET filedatetime=%%~tf
echo %username%,%computername%,%filedatetime%>>....hotfixes.CSV
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

This kinda works, but doesn't tell me an update failed. Or if updates were downloaded but not installed.

Is there a better way to achieve what I'm looking for?