Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
Since I always forget:
for /l %1 in (1,2,200) do echo %1 >> text-%1.txt
This creates files with incremental filenames like this:
text-1.txt
text-3.txt
...
text-199.txt
–jeroen
via: For – Loop through a range of numbers | Windows CMD | SS64.com [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/13
How bad is the Windows command line really?
The Windows command line is bad. Very bad.
But it took until recently for old Windows versions – that out of the box had either no or poor PowerShell versions – to have slowly died.
So only now PowerShell finally has become an option that really works across all Windows versions I use. Go PowerShell!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/04
I wanted to compress a few files from the current directory in a zip file using the 7z.exe command-line version of 7zip.
The trick is about finding where 7z.exe is as the directory containing 7z.exe is not in the Windows PATH.
Notes:
7zExe as environment variable as it will class with %7 being a parameter.SortDateTime.bat fills the environment variables SortDate, SortTime and SortDateTime with the current values yyyymmdd, hhnnss and yyyymmddhhnnss for sortable archive namingsetlocal call SortDateTime.bat echo %SortDateTime% %SortDate%-%SortTime% for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip" /v Path`) do ( set sevenzExe="%%d7z.exe" ) endlocal & if exist %sevenzExe% %sevenzExe% a -tzip _my-build.%SortDate%-%SortTime%.zip MyServer.exe MyServer.map MyClient.exe MyClient.map pause
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/17
When you want to defrag.exe (the built-in Windows one, not the SysInternals Windows NT4 one, so make sure SysInternals comes last in your path) a volume, you have to run it with an elevated UAC Admin token.
But I just found out that you can do this without an Admin token:
C:\Windows\System32>Defrag.exe C: /t /v /u
Microsoft Drive Optimizer
Copyright (c) 2013 Microsoft Corp.
Tracking operation on (C:)...
Performing pass 2:
Free Space Consolidation: 31% complete...
This makes it much easier to separate monitoring scripting from execution.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
A while ago, I bitched that Microsoft moved away the Windows Update out of the Control panel into a language depended place (in Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues).
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:
It replaced this simple batch-file which has worked for like 10 years:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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