batch-file Questions

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I have a bat script that I'd like to make work on windows/Mac/linux, but I read .bat is only for windows. How can I make this script work on Mac and linux, or what type of script can I write that w...
Sturgeon asked 16/11, 2011 at 18:50

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When trying to open vscode folder using a batch file, Visual Studio opens up with that folder, but also a cmd window pops up and does not go away if you use exit command. @echo off start code "C:\...
Holston asked 22/6, 2019 at 0:43

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I'm attempting to force a VM to log the current user out and send the session to the console via running a .bat script. I can get this working if I manually run a .bat file on the VM which contain...
Elsey asked 11/7, 2016 at 14:55

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How do I use the SET command in windows for floating point arithmatic. /A stands for arithmetic and %VAR% prints the data of VAR not the name. For example when I do: SET /A VAR="2.5+3.1" ECHO %VA...
Stormy asked 20/9, 2014 at 16:59

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I'm using Ubuntu and Windows on the same machine, and always have problem with incorrect time when booting into Windows, so I like to execute w32tm /resync at startup. So I'm trying to put this co...
Internationalize asked 12/4, 2014 at 23:35

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In Linux we can do echo -n -e '\x66\x6f\x6f' > test.txt to write HEX values to a file. How can this be done simply in Windows batch?
Yolande asked 11/12, 2017 at 10:21

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The following will print the current data and time within a windows batch file: for /f "tokens=2,3,4,5,6 usebackq delims=:/ " %%a in ('%date% %time%') do echo %%c-%%a-%%b %%d%%e I found ...
Gamages asked 28/6, 2015 at 12:30

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I have a windows batch file that does this: for %%s in (*.sql) do call It loops through all the sql script in a folder. In the folder the file names are like: s4.06.01.sql s4.07.01.sql s4.08.01....
Lobworm asked 31/8, 2010 at 6:22

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I have a code that I am writing that can change the screen brightness according to user input, but this is based around the current screen brightness. Is there a way to obtain the screen brightness...
Mortality asked 15/5, 2019 at 12:43

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I have a fairly good amount of knowledge with Batch. I'm trying to port a batch script over to Mac/UNIX, but my batch file has a drag-and-drop thing to it. Through countless Google searches, I have...
Tribute asked 27/4, 2013 at 23:19

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How do I echo the "greater than" character in cmd? I would like to escape the "greater than" sign (>) because I need it to echo to another .bat file. Echo net session>nul ...
Fenrir asked 8/8, 2021 at 6:41

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I'm working on a program which generates the day's weather for D&D games. I want the program to display a warning in red text when a storm is generated so the DM is aware that this weather is n...
Franchescafranchise asked 9/2, 2014 at 14:26

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I have two batch files, task.bat and runtask.bat. The runtask.batcalls task.batand I would like runtask.bat to get the exit code of task.bat into a variable. How could this be done? task.bat: @ec...
Medeah asked 11/1, 2013 at 11:47

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I need to have a timeout in powershell code where I'm running batch file, in case the batch file runs for a longer time or gets stuck. I also have a timeout in the batch script timeout 300> nul ...
Pulsation asked 18/12, 2022 at 16:35

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I have the following batch file @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "delims==" %%J in (File_List.txt) do ( call :setDate %%J MYD echo/Date is: %MYD% ) endlocal &goto :eof :setDat...
Lecher asked 10/7, 2012 at 17:52

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I am trying to download a Google sheet via a batch file. This works: powershell -Command "Invoke-WebRequest https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/SPREADSHEET_ID/export?exportFormat=tsv -OutFile o...
Kemme asked 28/2, 2019 at 1:40

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I've more than 200 MP3 files and I need to split each one of them by using silence detection. I tried Audacity and WavePad but they do not have batch processes and it's very slow to make them one b...
Reposit asked 5/8, 2017 at 22:46

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I'm writing a script that will run from the Task Scheduler. It's not executing correctly from the Scheduler, but will execute correctly from the command line. (Possibly a permissions issue?) I want...
Tyrothricin asked 16/11, 2011 at 19:53

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What's the easiest/best way to find and remove empty (zero-byte) files using only tools native to Mac OS X?
Boorer asked 13/2, 2009 at 1:45

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How can I pass more than nine parameters to bach file. I tried another SO question How do you utilize more than 9 arguments when calling a label in a CMD batch-script? but not working for me. I a...
Celanese asked 11/2, 2014 at 6:37

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I am trying to schedule a job to run a batch file with Windows 10 Task Scheduler, but it results in return code 2147942401. The batch file is on remote location so I am giving the absolute path "\...
Millenary asked 19/1, 2018 at 15:5

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I am using Runtime.getRuntime().exec() command to start a batch file which in turn starts another process for windows platform. javaw.exe(Process1) |___xyz.bat(Process2) |___javaw.exe(Process3) ...
Drainage asked 12/4, 2012 at 13:12

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I have found numerous ways to base64 encode whole files using the command-line on Windows, but I can't seem to find a simple way to batch encode just a "string" using a command-line utility. How d...
Stunt asked 5/5, 2016 at 9:15

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I am trying to use this GUI mod for a Minecraft Server. I wrote a batch file so the server can start with more RAM. When I run just the .jar file, no command window opens and it runs just fine (of ...
Glockenspiel asked 19/4, 2011 at 2:8

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I want to build my application with the function to restart itself. I found on codeproject ProcessStartInfo Info=new ProcessStartInfo(); Info.Arguments="/C choice /C Y /N /D Y /T 3 & Del "+ A...
Cyrie asked 7/3, 2012 at 15:7

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