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Start application via batch hiding console

I've made an easy batch to start an application (it opens a pdf in pdf reader): @ECHO off start ../folder/index.pdf When I launch my batch, the console is shown for a couple of seconds and then is closed when the reader is launched, Is it possible to hide the console when I launch the batch? So on launching the batch only the reader ...

How to kill a windows service with a space in the name using taskkill within a batch file

Hi all, I am attempting to write a batch file that kills the windows audio service using the following taskkill /F /FI "Services eq Windows Audio" however I am unable to get taskkill to handle the space in the service name. Any ideas? Thanks ...

Command Line Script to Delete Header Row from a number of TXT files.

What's the best method to delete the first line of text from a large (10k+) group of text files. ...

How to call two batches from a third one?

When my Windows Batch file (.bat) calls other two BAT files it exits after the first one. How to make it run both of them? ...

Reading empty values in "for" command in a windows batch file

I have a question with the "for" batch command in windows. I have a file called keys.txt which contains this line.. key,value,x86,windows7 I want to parse this line and store the 4 comma seperated variables in 4 variables. I accomplish that by the following windows batch script. for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4* delims=," %%i in (keys.tx...

Windows Batch Script

Hi All, I am executing a Batch Script which executes a set Of SQL Statements.The Output of a Result Set is Name,Amount,Match 1 10 1 2 20 1 3 30 0 When a Match goes to = 0, The Execution of a SQL Script should be stopped and an o/p file should be created I am using this Command in Batch Script: S...

C#: How do I run a batch process after a program exits (not called during it).

I have the following setup: MainApp.exe checks for updates, downloads latest updates. The problem is that sometimes the updates are DLLs that the MainApp.exe is currently using. So, I thought maybe just dump all the files into an Update (temp) folder and when the program exits run a batch file that overwrites the DLLs and then relaunche...

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I have a program I made in C that will restart my Java application after running for 2 hours. First of all, I run my java program using a batch file, @echo off java -server -Xmx1024m -Xbootclasspath/p:"bin;" website.Server >>C:\web_logs\console.log It works perfectly fine, but after the 2 hours is up I use Runtime.getRuntime(); in Ja...

.bat Merging header.txt to all *.txt files

I have a file called header.txt I want this file to be prepended (first line) to all *.txt files in the same directory. How could I achieve this? Thanks in advance, Joe ...

.bat Find and Replace text

I have some files that contain some of if not all of the following: Program RxBIN RXPCN RxGroup MemberID not all files will have all of those headers but the ones that do I will need to replace so it looks like this: @Program @RxBIN @RXPCN @RxGroup @MemberID Thanks in Advance, Joe ...

.bat If Then Statement

I need help with writing a batch script for if file newfile.txt exists then del "InDesignData.txt" ren "newfile.txt" "InDesignData.txt" Thanks in advance, Joe ...

.bat Find and Rename

I have outputted some text files all in the same directory. Each .txt file has within a group number, this number always starts with RXC and can go upwards of 5 characters afterwards, giving us RXCXXXXX i need the script to find this RXC number and rename the file to its corresponding group number, then do the same for all files in the s...

Batch script for outputting list of specific log files to a text file

Hi All, I am trying to create a text file that contains a listing of all log files that contain a certain string in the first line. More specifically, SAS log files. Currently I have a simple script that will search the entire system for "*.log" files and output the entire list to a text file. Is there a way to only output the log fil...

How to handle spaces in path names in for loop?

Trying to use the path to the current script, and the path contains spaces in it. I can't seem to get it to work though: C:\Test Directory>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 7486-CEE6 Directory of C:\Test Directory 08/31/2010 07:28 PM <DIR> . 08/31/2010 07:28 PM <DIR> .. 08/31/2010...

Batch script Latin characters

I am writing a batch script to go through some directories doing an specific task, something like the following: set DBCreationScript=//Here I set the full path for the script echo %DBCreationScript% Problem is the path has got some latin characters (ç, ã, á) and when I run the script, the output shows strange characters, not the ones...

How to use REG_EXPAND_SZ from the commandline?

Hi, I was reading the Windows Commandline Documentation (Win+F1) about the commands that modify the Windows registry, particularly the the "reg add" command. reg add HKCU\testfolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v Stokrotka /d "%systemroot%\system32" Now, I don't know how this was designed to work. When I invoke the command above, the variable %s...

Copy a file to all folders batch file?

I need copy credits.jpg from C:\Users\meotimdihia\Desktop\credits.jpg to D:\Software\destinationfolder and all subfolders I read many and i write /R "D:\Software\destinationfolder" %%I IN (.) DO COPY "C:\Users\meotimdihia\Desktop\credits.jpg" "%%I\credits.jpg" then i save file saveall.bat but i run it , it dont work at all. help me ...

MS DOS 'for' command to access file contents -- spaces

If a.txt contains a b c abc The command for /f %x in (a.txt) do echo %x is printing a abc What am I doing wrong? ...

I want to make a batch file with the path and commands i used

Hello I want to make a batch file from the below given procedure.. my original directory was C:/Users/Suvin..I changed the Directory to C:/AnimationApp.. After this i setted the path as set path=C:\bada\1.0.0b3\Tools\Toolchains\Win32\bin%path%C:\bada\1.0.0b3\Include..Then i setted the environmenat variables as set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\b...

Rename different files to one file name, one at a time

i have files named.. 82011.nsf 63113.nsf 55555.nsf i must rename each file to single.nsf (for example ren 82011.nsf to single.nsf) then use a program to act on that file (single.nsf) then rename the next file (63113.nsf to single.nsf) then use a program to act on that file (single.nsf) etc I want a batch file to do the nename, pau...