The trick is to use the choice command; see [WayBack] if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/14
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Run cmd as elevated user (via: windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User)
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Based on [WayBack] windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User:
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas"
This works better than "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe" as that forces to use the specific Administrator account, whereas the PowerShell way allows you to specify the actual account during elevation.
–jeroen
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msbuild: /p: or /property: but be ware of the equals sign
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
From [WayBack] How do I pass this common property to MSBuild using TeamCity? – Stack Overflow, I learned you can pass properties to msbuild using the /p:propertyname=value or /property:propertyname=value syntax (where you can quote "value" when needed):
I am using the TeamCity Visual Studio runner. I want to add a setting that is not accessible from Visual Studio./Property:FileAlignment=4096I typed that directly into the build step “Command line
However, when passing these parameters to batch files first, be aware that they can strip equals signs from parameters:Â [WayBack] windows – Preserving “=” (equal) characters in batch file parameters – Stack Overflow
I bumped into this when passing properties to https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat
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Windows <= 10: batch file to open Windows Update panel
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/15
Up until Widows 8.1, you could use wuapp to start the Windows Update panel.
For a while, Windows 10 needed a cumbersome language specific workaround described at Windows 10 – language neutral batch file to start Windows.
That stopped working after a few builds, but I forgot to make a note in which build exactly. Already in Windows 10 build 10122, the icon in wucltux.dll, so this might have been shortly after the initial “RTM” (retroactively named 1507).
So for a while, I had this batch file:
Since then I had to maintain too many locales running Windows 10. So here is the batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('PowerShell -Command "(Get-Culture).Name"') do explorer "%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\%%A\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms"It uses these tricks:
- Set output of a command as a variable (in this case a for loop variable)
- Execute PowerShell script in a .bat file
- PowerShell Get-Culture (which gets a .NET CultureInfo instance)
- CultureInfo.Name property (which has the nl-NL, en-US, etc codes in it)
But now I have extended it to support old and new Windows versions:
if exist %windir%\System32\wuapp.exe ( %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe ) else ( %windir%\explorer ms-settings:windowsupdate )
–jeroen
via:Â Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line? – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14
Interesting thought [WayBack]Â In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line? – Super User.
The only problem seems to be a good way of creating/removing those pipes.
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