Look at the following examples… Example 1: The following code DOESN’T use delayed expansion, so the variables in the for loop are expanded only one time. This means that %Count% will always expand to 0 in each iteration of the loop, no matter what we do to it with the set command: @echo off set … Read more
PetSerAl, as he routinely does, has provided the crucial pointer in a comment on the question: Member-access enumeration – the ability to access a member (a property or a method) on a collection and have it implicitly applied to each of its elements, with the results getting collected in an array, was introduced in PSv3.[1] … Read more
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Option 1 After you change PATH with the GUI, close and re-open the console window. This works because only programs started after the change will see the new PATH. Option 2 This option only affects your current shell session, not the whole system. Execute this command in the command window you have open: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\your\path\here\ … Read more
A) How does Windows command processor search for commands? Windows command processor searches for a COMMAND to execute which is not an internal command of cmd.exe and is just specified with file name without file extension and without path for a file matching the pattern command.* and having a file extension listed in local environment … Read more
See Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format: @echo off For /f “tokens=2-4 delims=/ ” %%a in (‘date /t’) do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b) For /f “tokens=1-2 delims=/:” %%a in (‘time /t’) do (set mytime=%%a%%b) echo %mydate%_%mytime% If you prefer the time in 24 hour/military format, you can replace the second FOR line … Read more
& between two commands simply results in executing both commands independent on result of first command. The command right of & is executed after command left of & finished independent on success or error of the previous command, i.e. independent on exit / return value of previous command. && results in a conditional execution of … Read more
A lot of the answers here helped point me in the right direction, however none were suitable for me, so I am posting my solution. I have Windows 7, which comes with PowerShell built-in. Here is the script I used to find/replace all instances of text in a file: powershell -Command “(gc myFile.txt) -replace ‘foo’, … Read more
We performed experiments to investigate the grammar of batch scripts. We also investigated differences between batch and command line mode. Batch Line Parser: Here is a brief overview of phases in the batch file line parser: Phase 0) Read Line: Phase 1) Percent Expansion: Phase 2) Process special characters, tokenize, and build a cached command … Read more
You are not the first, who fell into the famous “delayed expansion trap” (and you won’t be the last). You need delayed expansion if you want to use a variable, that you changed in the same block (a block is a series of commands within parentheses (and )). Delayed variables are referenced with !var! instead … Read more