I would want to copy a text to the clipboard using batch script so I don't have to open a text file to select all text and copy. I tried this code:
echo | set /p= hello & echo.world |clip
Output
world
Expected clip (desired)
hello
world
but it only clipped:
world
What are options so I can copy and paste multiple line text or paragraph using batch file?
Thanks!
Like Nico wrote, if you have several lines of text, then you’ll need to wrap them in brackets () like this:
echo off | clip
(
echo This is line one
echo This is line two
echo this is line three
)| clip
More information about it you can find here.
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With command line in Windows, I have a game score system which goes on. It saves the scores into a text file by using the code:
if %LS_RegioLex_EndSave%==1 (echo Single Player Latest Score 1 - RegioLex: %S_REGIOLEX_SCORE% > LostChamberSinglePlayerRegioLexSCORE01.txt)
How do I do the opposite and get the saved scores from the text file and display them?
Assuming you load the .txt to a string, you can split a string as shown in this thread, or as shown here
Any reason you're tied to batch? Powershell makes it a cakewalk with Import-CSV
This gives you the data on the first line.
set /p "var="<"LostChamberSinglePlayerRegioLexSCORE01.txt"
echo "%var%"
I am need creating a batch file to take an input and separate the content in different lines to a file.
For example:
Apple Banana Orange
And make the file look like:
Apple
Banana
Orange
Is there a way to do this?
You can create a script based on the following to ask for input and write the different items to the file result.txt
#echo off
set /p fruit=Give input:
for %%f in (%fruit%) do (
echo %%f >> result.txt
)
If result.txt already exists, it will append the new items to the existing file. If you do not want that, then just delete result.txt at the beginning of the script.
You can either enter the input by hand, or take input from a file using something like fruit.bat < input.txt
I want to use echo to add data into a text file progressively. I wrote a small batch code as follows:
#echo off
echo >text.txt
set DllCopier_d=./DllCopier
echo %DATE:~04%>text.txt
echo %TIME:~0,5%>text.txt
echo %~dp0%>text.txt
When I look at text.txt at the end, i found only one line:
C:\omsstest_automation\win32\
Which is result of last line.
Why is the "echo" resulting into replacing previous contents of text.txt?
> means create a new file with these contents (replace the old if it exists), >> means append or create a new file if none already exists.
So to spell out the answer to your question, replace subsequent usages of > after the very first one with >>.
This question already has answers here:
How can I echo a newline in a batch file?
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Is it possible to put a new line character in an echo line in a batch file?
Basically I want to be able to do the equivalent of:
echo Hello\nWorld
You can do this easily enough in Linux, but I can't work out how to do it in Windows.
echo. prints an empty line.
Example:
echo Hello
echo.
echo world
prints
Hello
world
It can be solved with a single echo.
You need a newline character \n for this.
There are multiple ways to get a new line into the echo
1) This sample use the multiline caret to add a newline into the command,
the empty line is required
echo Hello^
world
2) The next solution creates first a variable which contains one single line feed character.
set \n=^
rem ** Two empty lines are required
Or create the new line with a slightly modified version
(set \n=^
%=DONT REMOVE THIS=%
)
And use this character with delayed expansion
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
echo Hello!\n!world
To use a line feed character with the percent expansion you need to create a more complex sequence
echo Hello^%\n%%\n%world
Or you can use the New line hack
REM Creating a Newline variable (the two blank lines are required!)
set \n=^
set NL=^^^%\n%%\n%^%\n%%\n%
REM Example Usage:
echo There should be a newline%NL%inserted here.
But only the delayed expansion of the newline works reliable, also inside of quotes.
After a little experimentation I discovered that it is possible to do it without issuing two separate echo commands as described in How can you echo a newline in batch files?. However to make it work you will need a text editor that does not translate CR to CR+LF.
Type:
#echo First Line
then with NumLock on, hold down the ALT key and type 10 on the numeric keypad before releasing ALT (you must use the numeric keypad, not the top-row number keys). This will insert a CR character. Then type the second line. Depending on your editor and how it handles CR compared with CR+LF you may get:
#echo First Line◙Second Line
or
#echo First Line
Second Line
This works from the command line and will work in a batch file so long as the text editor does not translate CR to CR+LF (which Windows/DOS editors do unless you configure them not to). If the CR is converted to CR+LF, or if you use just LF, the second line is interpreted as a new command.
However, I cannot see why this would be preferable over simply:
#echo First Line
#echo Second Line
Ahaha,
I think I've worked out something close enough...
echo hello&echo.&echo world
Produces:
hello
world
echo.
or
echo(
will do the blank new line. Hope this is helpful.
I found this very informative, so wanted to post a better example using the answers provided
This provides a nicely formatted usage message
if "%1" == """" goto usage
:usage
echo USAGE: %0 [Set properties using -D flag] [Ant Task to Run] &
echo. &
echo Availble Command line properties &
echo -------------------------------- &
...
I think it is not possible. You could only try an ascii-character to this:
http://www.asciitable.com/
But this will perhaps crash your batch-file.
I have a batch file that does this.
ECHO A41,35,0,a,1,1,N,"Mr ZACHARY KAPLAN">> test.txt
There are about 30k similar lines. It takes the batch file about 5 hours to run.
Is there a way to speed this up?
/Jeanre
Try this:
Put an ECHO OFF at the top of the batch file.
Then change each line to:
ECHO A41,35,0,a,1,1,N,"Mr ZACHARY KAPLAN"
and call your batch file:
mybatch.bat >> test.txt
Edit the first line to remove the echo off print out.
If You do this, it will be way quicker:
JAM DO %%Fo CAt Pa (set /p %yodo%=jol)
RUn
Write a custom script or program to open the file test.txt once, and write all the data into it in one shot.
Right now each line is executed separately by the command interpreter, and the file is opened and closed each time.
Even a small qbasic program should be able to strip out the data between the echo and >> and write it to a text file more quickly than your current method.
-Adam
you can use a scripting language to strip the leading ECHO and trailing >> test.txt with a small regular expression
here's an example in python:
>>> import re
>>> text = 'ECHO A41,35,0,a,1,1,N,"Mr ZACHARY KAPLAN">> test.txt'
>>> re.sub( r"ECHO\s*(.*?)>>\s*test.txt", r"\1", text )
'A41,35,0,a,1,1,N,"Mr ZACHARY KAPLAN"'
do this for all lines in the file:
import re
f = open("input.bat")
of = open("output.txt", "w" )
for line in f:
of.write( re.sub( r"ECHO\s*(.*?)>>\s*test.txt", r"\1", line ) )
I didn't test this code ...
Here's an example using a Java program - with BufferedReader/PrintWriter
http://www.javafaq.nu/java-example-code-126.html
You can also use a BufferedReader and BufferedWriter
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/buffers.html
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/io/10file/10readfile.html