Since you want a C and Windows specific solution, I’d recommend using the SetConsoleTextAttribute() function in the Win32 API. You’ll need to grab a handle to the console, and then pass it with the appropriate attributes. As a simple example: /* Change console text color, then restore it back to normal. */ #include <stdio.h> #include … Read more
Regarding setting the buffer size: Using mode con: cols=XX lines=YY sets not only the window (screen) size, but the buffer size too. If you specify a size allowed by your system, based on available screen size, you’ll see that both window and buffer dimension are set to the same value; .e.g: mode con: cols=100 lines=30 … Read more
Even easier, find /c. ex: netstat -an | find /c “ESTABLISHED” find /c: Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
You can use move for this. The documentation from help move states: Moves files and renames files and directories. To move one or more files: MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]filename1[,…] destination To rename a directory: MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]dirname1 dirname2 [drive:][path]filename1 Specifies the location and name of the file or files you want to … Read more
As others have said, CALL is the normal way to call another bat file within a .bat and return to the caller. However, all batch file processing will cease (control will not return to the caller) if the CALLed batch file has a fatal syntax error, or if the CALLed script terminates with EXIT without … Read more
There are three types of variables of which value is accessed using the syntax %variable% or !variable! on having enabled delayed environment variable expansion with using the option EnableDelayedExpansion of the command setlocal from within a Windows command prompt window or a batch file, i.e. using %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe. 1. Persistent stored variables There are environment variables … Read more
Four years have passed, but this question doesn’t get old, and I think now there’s a slightly better answer than using wmic (on win7 onwards). for /F “tokens=1,2,3 delims=_” %%i in (‘PowerShell -Command “& {Get-Date -format “MM_dd_yyyy”}”‘) do ( set MONTH=%%i set DAY=%%j set YEAR=%%k ) echo %MONTH% %DAY% %YEAR% With powershell Get-Date you can … Read more
Thinking in terms of a less tortuous solution, this, too, produces the CCC you desire. setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set AAA=BBB set BBB=CCC for /F %%a in (‘echo %AAA%’) do echo !%%a! edit: to dissect this answer: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion – this will allow for any environment variable setting during your bat to be used as modified during … Read more
There is a GNU tool recode which you can also use on Windows. E.g. recode utf16..utf8 text.txt
For the timer part of your script i highly reccomend using: echo. echo Waiting For One Hour… TIMEOUT /T 3600 /NOBREAK echo. echo (Put some Other Processes Here) echo. pause >nul This script waits for 1 hour (3600 seconds) and then continues on with the script and the user cannot press any buttons to bypass … Read more