At 11:31 PM 10/13/2006 +1000, foxidrive Writes ... Greetings Mic, I apologize to you and the group for my delayed responses but I been so busy deleting and...
... <Yosemite Sam voice> you dog-blasted, ornery, no-account, long-eared varmint! Take that [blam] and that [blam]. (holsters pistol)</Yosemite Sam voice> ... ...
At 12:52 PM 11/5/2006 +1100, foxidrive Writes ... @echo on @echo off rem pause start "" "c:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe" %* ... Learned my lesson a few...
I am trying to copy c:\bar to c:\foo, and I need the bar directory created under the c:\foo when the copy takes place. If c:\bar contains 3 files, a.txt,...
... Unfortunately that doesn't work under XP nor NT4. Yes, it prolly should, but doesn't. At least not on my XP or NT4 right here in front of me. Xcopy looks...
I can report that it works for me on XP SP2. I use xcopy all the time without issue. It's not often necessary, but I usually like to include the /H switch. I...
Hi All. I was trying for a method to find out the path to a running process. Let me clarify: Let us assume that I have 2 instances of apache.exe webserver...
Parag P. Doke
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Nov 10, 2006 12:36 pm
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... Can you add a batchfile to start the apache process, and capture the PID to an environment variable for later use? Without checking I would guess that the...
Please help me: I want to start 3 programs at once with a batch file, but I don't know how. Could someone write one for me? Thanks in advance, Peter....
Hello Peter, You might want to use the & conditional statement to make this go. For example: command_1 & command_2 & command_3 You can find out more by looking...
Hi Mic ! Many thanks for the reply. Your suggestion sure did work. I noticed that when I started Apache.exe, it created 2 processes with different PIDs that...
Parag P. Doke
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Nov 11, 2006 9:03 am
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Thanks Sam, Even with the & statement, it's no go. I'm on Server2003 workstation and I want to start my mail client, my spam filter and yahoo pops, which...
I had to repost to edit the code... 11/04/06 6:15pm Hey Guys! Mic... How's it going? Is there an easier and cleaner way to do this? Basically when I copy a...
... by ... Much cleaner...;much like an array -- :) I'm going to see if I can pass each line into a variable so I don't have to repeat the code for all 400...
... E:\ ... See ... Here it is with variables (tested succesfully) Thanks again Mic! Don't ever leave this forum al right... LOL BTW, i'm getting pretty good...
Mic (and others) I used your script and it worked great for renaming. I have to do the same thing again for a new set of files and was wondering if I can make...
... This might be more efficient, if you can filter on the filetype. In the example it looks for *.pdf and is untested: From what I recall the filenames are...
... I noticed an error so am updating the script - still untested: @echo off for /f %%a in ('dir c:\*.pdf /b /s /a:-d') do ( pushd "%%~dpa" for /f "tokens=1,2...
On 16 Nov 2006 at 14:50, foxidrive (foxidrive <batchworld@yahoogroups.com>) commented about Re: [BATCH WORLD] Rename using Excel List: <Snip> Hi Mic, ... It...
... Bingo! You're spot on, coz I checked gmail and my posts are there. Thank you, Gary. I created a gmail filter to forward all mail from me, to my ISP. If it...
... Bugger. Thought a gmail filter was just the thing to fix that but although it lets you create one, it is ignored. Back to the old drawing board. -- ...
Mic, From initial testing, all looks good. Thanks a lot. You just saved me a ton of processing time. For my information, can you explain what the caret...
Hi Anthony. "<" by itself is a redirection operator. The "^" is the escape character. If cmd received the "<" sign by itself it would attempt to direct the...
Parag P. Doke
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Nov 17, 2006 4:40 pm
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Hi All. I'm not sure if this topic has been covered earlier in this forum (if yes please direct me to the link of the post). Can someone please explain how...