Archive for the ‘dos’ Category

The FOR Command Again, More Complicated Tokens

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

One of the posts that keeps coming up in comments and email is the one I wrote about using the FOR command to rename files from the command line. I just got another request about it that intrigued me: how can you rename files that have spaces in them? ...

Using FOR to Rename Files from Command Line

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Although I mess around with DOS batch files and the command line, I've never really gotten into the FOR command. Wow, what a powerful little puppy that is. I read a post at LifeHacker today that has inspired me to figure out how to use the FOR command ...

SlickRun on LifeHacker and app.bat

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

There's a nice post over on LifeHacker that talks about SlickRun - like it took them soooo long to figure out how cool it was! Anyway, one of the comments refers to app.bat, a batch file that will let you append text to any file. Turns out that ...