This trick only requires one command: type net session into the command prompt. If you are NOT an admin, you get an access is denied message. System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. If you ARE an admin, you get a different message, the most common being: There are no entries in the list. … Read more
Put pause at the end of your .BAT file.
LabelName doesn’t need to be a shell object, as it’s just a string. Then concatenate the string onto the run command and you are done. Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Dim LabelName LabelName = InputBox(“Please Enter Label to check-out:”, _ “Create File”) oShell.run “cmd /K “”c:\Program Files (x86)\Borland\StarTeam Cross-Platform Client 2008 R2\stcmd.exe”” co -p bla:[email protected]:7777/bla/ -is … Read more
Do not blindly answer “y”, you lose a protection against man-in-the-middle attacks. You should use the -hostkey switch with your host key fingerprint. Actually it’s the same with WinSCP, that you ended up using. WinSCP open command also has the -hostkey switch. If it does work without the -hostkey switch, it’s because the host key … Read more
The DosTips RTRIM function that Ben Hocking cites can be used to create a script that can right trim each line in a text file. However, the function is relatively slow. DosTips user (and moderator) aGerman developed a very efficient right trim algorithm. He implemented the algorithm as a batch “macro” – an interesting concept … Read more
For this task, starting with Windows Vista special exist FileProcessIdsUsingFileInformation FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS. So we need open file with FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES (this is possible even if somebody open file with 0 share mode. of if we have no access to file (by it DACL) but have read access to parent directory). and call NtQueryInformationFile with FileProcessIdsUsingFileInformation. on return … Read more
If you want to write console batch files that use those characters, you need an editor that will save the batch file using the console’s code page. To check what that is, type: C:\>chcp Active code page: 437 This is the result for my US Windows system. Western European versions of Windows will often be … Read more
To use Unicode in the Windows console for Python 2.7 and 3.x (prior to 3.6), install and enable win_unicode_console. This uses the wide-character functions ReadConsoleW and WriteConsoleW, just like other Unicode-aware console programs such as cmd.exe and powershell.exe. For Python 3.6, a new io._WindowsConsoleIO raw I/O class has been added. It reads and writes UTF-8 … Read more
I found out what the problem was. Although the ftype and the assoc values were set as suggested, the actual behavior on my system seems to be determined by the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\perl.exe\shell\open\command It should have a (Default) string value of “C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe” “%1” %* When I found this entry, it was set to “C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe” “%1”. … Read more
Here are two solutions. 1) has surrounding double quotes and removed ^ escape character. 2) uses find as it is on the path. for /f %%a in (‘””%systemRoot%\system32\find.exe” /c /v “” < “c:\something.txt””‘) do @echo %%a for /f %%a in (‘ find.exe /c /v “” ^< “c:\something.txt”‘) do @echo %%a It’s to do with launching … Read more