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“psloglist” for system event returns an error: -1073740940
My batch must extract system and application events.
I use two psloglist (vers. 2.82) cmd one after the other.
psloglist \\Home -d 7 -f we sys > system.log
psloglist \\Home -d 7 -f we app > ...
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DOS batch file to display netsh channel output
I'm trying to get wifi Channel output from netsh command to be 2.4GHz or 5GHz
The following provides me with Channel output:
netsh wlan show interface name=Wi-Fi | findstr "Channel"
Output ...
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How to discover the page code to show a specific character in MSDOS/Batch?
I made a batch-file snake game and inserted some special characters via HEX to ANSI conversion in Notepad++.
It worked normally. But I noticed that there was an update to the Consolas font and two of ...
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Why is change directory not working when SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION is used
I have an existing windows batch script (named as test1.bat) as below :
@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set nop=4
for /l %%z in (1, 1, %nop%) do (
set x=%%z
echo !x!
)
chdir /d D:\app\
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Loop n-times on DOS 6.22
FOR /L %%parameter IN (start,step,end) DO command does not work on DOS 6.22.
The /L argument to loop through a set of numbers is not available in DOS 6.22.
FOR in DOS 6.22 can merely loop through a ...
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How to list all files on all hard drives with output in MS-DOS batch?
How can I list all files (including system and hidden) on all hard drives (not removable drives)?
I think in something like a:
dir -a -h *.* /s > file.txt
but this is for the specific drive ...
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How do I download the RSS Feed XML file in dos command batch mode?
I have a specific requirement that I need to download the RSS feed file (it is in XML format) from the given link using dos command.
I have tried the following command and it keeps giving me syntax ...
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How to read files name last character and and rename them by running a batch file
I have 3 files in a folder which are:
XXX_a.txt
XXX_b.txt
XXX_c.txt
The filename can be varied, only the last character of the 3 files
a, b and c are not changed
I need to rename the files as below:
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batch file put if inside for loop error
I have a working for loop to print all zip file's name under one working directory:
@echo off
setlocal
for %%i in (*.zip) do (
echo %%i
)
I have another working if block to check and print ...
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Running file from batch file
I am working in Windows 10.
This is my code saved in .bat file:
%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\...
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How to start Notepad++ from a Windows 10 batch file?
When I Google this, I get pages about running Notepad++ from the command line, running batch files from Notepad++, and pages that start by explaining how I set my path variable.
I am not allowed to ...
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How can I check if a file starting with a letter is in the folder?
Why does this script always return "A" even when there are no files starting with A in the folder, but there being files starting with B and C?
@ECHO OFF
if exist %cd%\a* goto A
if exist %cd%\b* ...
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Writing out to a file based off of the output of the command
I have seen many examples of how to create a file through command line using a static name but I need to get it to show a dynamic name based off of my commands output. What I mean by this is the ...
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Log date and time accurately with batch file
I have a batch file that backups my files and works nicely, however I wanted to be able to log the exact time each task starts, but it is not working as I expected.
@echo off
> C:\log\%date:~3,2%-%...
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*NIX getopt alike for DOS
I want to write a DOS script with multiple optional option flags. I have to parse these optional options.
An example:
get_resolution.bat /?
get_resolution.bat /h input.jpg
get_resoltion.bat /v ...
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