I thought I could make a simple, one-line script to add the current user to the local admins group: runas /env /user:administrator “net localgroup administrators /add %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%” …but it doesn’t work when run from a network drive because Administrator doesn’t have the ...

Hi! I am a newbie in bach programming, and I’m having some truble programming questions and answers into a batch file. My platform is a 486 with ms-dos 4.01 Example: @echo off cls :quest echo. echo. echo What is the name of our ...

I have a big batch file where Im using setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION several times. Im wondering if typing it once is enough or does it have to be typed every single time im setting some variables. Is this why Im also ...

i am writing a paper and need some help.how do you declare local and global variables using pseudocode or flow chart

how do i find a string and then goto if found? i mean i know how but it fails not sure why. FINDSTR /C:”TEST” “%CD%\something.txt” || goto start :start {code} but it fails.

Hi Im hoping someone can help me with a batch file, I need a script to read a simple csv file that contains email addresses emailaddress bob@company.com john@company.com mary@company.com etc… then i need for every email address thats read for the script to ...

I have a batch file that requires administrative privileges to perform most of its task for which it has this bit of code to do that. >nul 2>&1 “%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe” “%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system” if ‘%errorlevel%’ NEQ ‘0’ ( echo Requesting administrative privileges… goto UACPrompt

I need to store these with the date in the filenames. They are different formats so, I think the best thing would be to store the filename with the date modified @fdate but it’s in a wierd format. Help? forfiles -p ...

i have a bunch of text files with last character  in a folder. instead of opening every txt file and manually delete that last character, i was thinking writing a dos batch file to remove it. thanks in advanced.