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StackOverflow have another interesting topic about: Underused features of Windows batch files. Of course there are many things I didn’t know about. Some highlights: PUSHD path Takes you to the directory specified by path. POPD Takes you back to the directory you “pushed” from. By using CALL, EXIT /B, SETLOCAL & ENDLOCAL you can implement …
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Recently I started getting the following errors from one of my batch files. Invalid drive specification 0 File(s) copied The problem was, that I didn’t have specified drive at all, because I was using UNC path (\\ComputerName\SharedFolder\Resource). So, xcopy is reporting with the wrong error message. One possibility is, that it is possible to disable …
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How to delete all folders in current directory using command line (cmd.exe) or batch files? How to delete all empty directories in current folder: FOR /D %f IN (*.*) DO RD “%f” How to delete all directories / folders in current directory / folder: FOR /D %f IN (*.*) DO RD “%f” /S /Q If …
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