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# _generals
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Deyda
04/21/2023, 9:08 AMDo u try find ‘“SearchString“‘ -> single and then the double
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 9:09 AMDoesn't work 😞
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Deyda
04/21/2023, 9:09 AMHmmm then maybe escape with \
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 9:13 AMWell, this seems to work - find """SearchString"""
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Deyda
04/21/2023, 9:17 AMLol ok. Triple are always better
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Webster Webster
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 9:36 AMThanks - is it possible to use a " as a delimiter in the for command? It would appear not 😞
James Rankin
04/21/2023, 9:43 AMAnswering my own question here again 🙂 this works to use " as a delimiter
for /f delims^=^"^ tokens^=1
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Webster Webster
04/21/2023, 10:41 AMThere was a book from the late 80s I kept for years that gave lots of examples of all the odd things you could do with batch/cmd files. It was astonishing what you could do.
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 10:42 AMYep, I wrote a batch file for an NT4 domain that did what GPO Restricted Groups and User Rights policies would do. I also had a batch file that would apply all the latest patches to servers, in the days before WSUS came along
James Rankin
04/21/2023, 10:42 AMDriven by text file databases, both of them 🙂
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Webster Webster
04/21/2023, 10:45 AMMy first AD mentor had a site with tons of examples of very advanced batch files and NT utilities. The site has been revamped from 20 years ago. Here is the current.
https://brainwavecc.com/brainwave-utilities/
Webster Webster
04/21/2023, 10:46 AMThere is also Windows NT Shell Scripting by Tim Hill from 1998 (which I found still on my bookshelf). Too bad you aren't closer. I would give it to you.
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 10:47 AMDon't sweat it, I'm trying to put together a retirement strategy here too 🙂
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Webster Webster
04/21/2023, 10:47 AMNah, you have at least another 30 years to go! LOL
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Nick Panaccio
04/21/2023, 11:57 AM16 replies and not a single person shaming him for using batch files...
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James Rankin
04/21/2023, 12:19 PMI've just written an equivalent routine in PowerShell and it processes slower
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Webster Webster
04/21/2023, 1:04 PMAbsolutely nothing wrong with using a batch file
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