I am debugging a windows batch command file. It is failing when extended (> 0x7f) characters are used in the paths or file names. The problem seems to be related to passing parameters to a command file that is CALLed from another. For an example, this command works as expected: xcopy "Pezuñero\1 - 001.wav" \temp This does not: call ...
The question ultimately aims at answering this question: can a batch script run an AIR app? The goal is to setup an AIR app on a web server and make it run through batches. I simply have to know whether this is possible by default or not. Thanks. ...
I'm wonderin' how I can write a script to calculate the time the script took to complete. I thought this would be the case, but obviously not.. @echo off set starttime=%time% set endtime=%time% REM do stuff here set /a runtime=%endtime%-%starttime% echo Script took %runtime% to complete ...
I am developing a game for Android in Windows Vista environment. I want to automate the exporting unsigned application operation in a batch file. So, I wouldn't have to Right click on the project, go to Android Tools and then select Export Unsigned Application Package... anytime I want to run my project. Thank you. ...
Hey guys Just wonderin' if anyone here knows how to display startup items from within a batch file? ...
Hi I'm tryin' to find a script that will let me display "linenumber# and linenumber# as well as lines#-#" from a text file in a batch file? I found this script here on this site.. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion if [%1] == [] goto usage if [%2] == [] goto usage SET /a counter=0 for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in (%2) do ( if "...
I have a very simple batch file that lauches a Java app (Saxon) with the simple command "java net.sf.Saxon.transform..." This app requires java version 1.5. This batch file will be used by 400+ users who each may or may not have some versions of the JRE installed on their machines. I had thought that simply installing the most recent ...
Hey guys Just building a batch file to delete temp files on my vista machines @ home that i want to add to task scheduler. i have this so far, but i get alot of access denied, and it never finds a thumbs.db file or index.dat and there are heaps of them. what am i doing wrong? attrib +a -s -h -r "%windir%\Temp\*.*" /s del /f /s /q "%...
I work with multiple projects and I want to recursively delete all folders with the name 'bin' or 'obj'. That way, I am sure that all projects will rebuild everyhing (sometimes it's the only way to force visual studio to forget all about previous builds). Is there a quick way to accomplish this (with a bat file for example) without ha...
I am trying to create a batch script that would connect to a mySQL database and issue a delete command: @echo off echo Resetting all assessments... mysql -hlocalhost -urdfdev -p%1 rdf_feedback delete from competency_question_answer; I will run this script providing the password as a command-line argument, but all this script does is, ...
I would like to have a non-modal alert box called form a batch file. Currently I am using vbscript to create a modal alert box: >usermessage.vbs ECHO WScript.Echo^( "Generating report - this may take a moment." ^) WSCRIPT.EXE usermessage.vbs But I would like to proceed with the script (generating the report) without waiting for user ...
Hi guys just wondering if u can help me modify this script that ive been playing around with, i cant get it to accept wildcard charcters '*' @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set /a value=0 set /a sum=0 FOR /R %1 %%I IN (*) DO ( set /a value=%%~zI/1024 set /a sum=!sum!+!value! ) @echo Size is: !sum! k Its in a batch file calle...
Hi, I want to create a script that will run whenever a server is turned on to do basic things like create a directory and copy a binary from an FTP server to it. I need it to run before a user logs in, as soon as the server is turned on. This will be deployed on my EC2 windows servers. Checking around (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/t...
I am running an executable in a batch file with two parameters; cmd /k ""executable" "param1" "param2"" This returns a string that I want to launch. I can't figure out how to set this return in a variable and subsequently launch it in IE. Any ideas? ...
I would like a Win32 process to launch an external script and be able to retrieve the ERRORLEVEL that it returns. The other way around is quite easy. Just use exit(errorcode) or return errorcode; in your Win32 app and the calling script gets its ERRORLEVEL value set properly. But, from a Win32 calling application, getting the script e...
Hi guys me again :) I have a problem with a batch file I wrote. It works fine on 32-bit, but apparently it doesn't work on 64-bit systems, and I don't know why because I do not have access to a 64-bit system. This is the code that works on Vista 32-bit system @echo off Set Reg.Key=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Set Reg....
I'm trying to modify a legacy Delphi 5 app so that it can be launched either from it's icon/via Explorer, or from the console (command-line). When it gets launched from the console, I want the program to detach itself from the console process, so that the console can continue to execute other instructions without waiting for my program t...
Hello, and thank you for reading. I'm making a .bat file and i'd like it to write ASCII-Art into a txt file. I was able to find the command to append a new line to the file when echoing text, but when I read that text file, all I see is a layout-sign and not a space. I think it would work opening that file with Word or even WordPad, b...
I'd like to get the parent directory of a file from within a .bat file. So, given a variable set to "C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt", I'd like to get "C:\MyDir". In otherwords, the equivalent of dirname() functionality in a typical UNIX environment. Is this possible? ...
EntityManager doesn't seem to care in which order to persist entities but I need that. Any ideas? ...