Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/30
This is what I needed:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f
And this one to verify the current settings:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
:: possible names
:: ScreenSaveActive
:: ScreenSaveTimeOut
:: ScreenSaverIsSecure
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" | findstr /I /C:"ScreenSave"
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/29
I needed to compare the local group memberships on a few systems.
I knew there is the distinction between
So I came up with this batch file thanks to Command Line Kung Fu:
:: http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/06/episode-43-users-groups.html
for /F "skip=4 delims=*" %%g in ('net localgroup ^| find /v "The command completed successfully"') do @net localgroup "%%g"
It can be done in PowerShell too, but is more work.
Based on that and Beyond Compare I created some diff scripts.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/29
On a system where I just added a new E: drive, it was indeed available as
wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=3 get caption,filesystem,drivetype,providername,volumename
would output:
Caption DriveType FileSystem ProviderName VolumeName C: 3 NTFS D: 3 NTFS E: 3 NTFS
But it would not list as an administrative share since
net share
would give:
Share name Resource Remark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPC$ Remote IPC ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin D$ D:\ Default share C$ C:\ Default share The command completed successfully.
I wonder why the E$ drive was not visible. If anyone knows a better solution than a reboot, please let me know.
This was after the reboot:
Share name Resource Remark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPC$ Remote IPC ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin D$ D:\ Default share E$ E:\ Default share C$ C:\ Default share The command completed successfully.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/25
Very smart case insensitive way answered by jeb:
if NOT "%foo%"=="%foo:bar=%" echo FOUND
–jeroen
via windows – Find out whether an environment variable contains a substring – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/26
Thanks Jon for answering this:
for /lis your friend:for /l %x in (1, 1, 100) do echo %xStarts at 1, steps by one, and finishes at 100.
Use two
%s if it’s in a batch filefor /l %%x in (1, 1, 100) do echo %%x
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
If you are running OpenSSL as a regular user, or cannot perform “RunAs Administrator”, and you get this error message:
unable to write 'random state'
then make sure you have set your environment variables correctly before running OpenSSL:
RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd
A full batch file front-end for OpenSSL.exe is this one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/22
Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol.
The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by seeing how others have solved tasks or draft tasks.
So in a sense it is similar to the Rosetta stone: it has different languages phrasing the same tasks.
There are already a whole bunch of languages on RosettaCode (of which a few are in the categories below), and you can even suggest or add your own languages.
When you want to solve tasks, be sure to look at the list unimplemented tasks by language that leads to automatic reports by language (for instance two of the languages I use most often: C# and Delphi).
I’m sure there are lots of programming chrestomathy sites, even beyond the ones, and it feels very similar to programming kata sites.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/06
Two interesting links today about Delphi and Batch files.
–jeroen
PS: If you want to see some serious Batch file and PowerShell related scripts, then read through the Build Automation part of my session materials I posted to ITDevCon and EKON session materials on Delphi Unit Testing + Build Automation and Continuous Integration on-line.
More details are in the batch files here:
and PowerShell scripts here:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/08
I never realized you could overwrite the CD pseudo environment variable. If you do, the automatic value of the pseudo variable will not be udpated any more:
You have at some point set the CD variable explicitly. If you do this it will no longer automatically reflect the current working directory. To undo this, set it to empty:
set CD=
Thanks Jonathan and … for explaining this in both your answers.
Thanks to another answer by Endoro I now also know of the %=C:% pseudo variable (you have one per drive letter) that indicate the current directory per drive letter.
–jeroen
via: batch file – When is the CD environment variable updated? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/06
I just found this [Wayback] great answer (which by now regrettably is deleted; the previous Wayback link still has it) by [Wayback] Јοеу a.k.a. Johannes Rössel on [Wayback] What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using.
The whole answer is worth reading, so I won’t quote only some bits.
Edit 20210609: the answer now has been replaced by an even more detailed answer [Wayback] by [Wayback] andrewdotn. Also recommended reading. The summary of the new answer is this:
The moral of the story?
typecan print UTF-16LE files with a BOM regardless of your current codepage- Win32 programs can be programmed to output Unicode to the console, using
WriteConsoleW.- Other programs which set the codepage and adjust their output encoding accordingly can print Unicode on the console regardless of what the codepage was when the program started
- For everything else you will have to mess around with
chcp, and will probably still get weird output.
–jeroen
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