Given your list of file names in a file called File-list.txt, the following lines should do what you want: @echo off set src_folder=c:\whatever set dst_folder=c:\target for /f “tokens=*” %%i in (File-list.txt) DO ( xcopy /S/E “%src_folder%\%%i” “%dst_folder%” )
youtube-dl already contains this functionality – just specify that you want mp3: youtube-dl -x –audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc Replace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc with your actual URL.
You have it almost done. Just explicitly say where to create the file @echo off echo.>”d:\testing\dblank.txt” This creates a file containing a blank line (CR + LF = 2 bytes). If you want the file empty (0 bytes) @echo off break>”d:\testing\dblank.txt”
Anders’ recipe has detailed control over a new environment, and I’m leaving that as the accepted answer because of that depth control. However one phrase in that answer led to me the method I’ll actually be using for the particular problem which prompted this enquiry. An “environment that is equal to the initial explorer.exe environment”. … Read more
It is because everything between the parentheses is loaded as one line. So %FileName% is expanded (at load time) before it is set (at run time). If you need to use the second format, you need to enable delayed expansion. Then you will have difficulty if the filename contains a !. This would work if … Read more
There is a “recycle.exe” command part of the a collection called cmdutils “Recycle.exe is a safe replacement for the DEL command, that sends files to the recycle bin instead of deleting them. Recycle is also more flexible than DEL; you can specify multiple files at once (or use wildcards)” Available at http://www.maddogsw.com/cmdutils (Tool last updated … Read more
if you start your path with \, it’s an absolute, not a relative path. Try copy “Debug\text.txt” “..\..\new” instead
In this answer the ERRORLEVEL values returned by all internal cmd.exe commands are described; they are grouped by the way the value is changed and presented as quick reference tables. I reviewed other similar tables in order to assemble this one, but filled the missing values via tests performed in a Windows 8.1 computer. I … Read more
Possibly the npm program is a batch file itself. Then you need to use call, as only then the program control returns to the caller. call npm install -g bower call npm install -g grunt-cli call npm install call gem update –system –verbose call gem install compass –verbose pause
Adapted from this answer to a very similar question: FORFILES /S /D -10 /C “cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path” You should run this command from within your d:\study folder. It will delete all subfolders which are older than 10 days. The /S /Q after the rd makes it delete folders … Read more