Useful Windows Command Shell Scripts

This is a collection of Windows command shell (.cmd) scripts that I find useful.

Scripts

• admin -- Execute command as administrator
• batch-lf-fail -- Illustrates how cmd files may fail if they have LF line endings
• clip-edit -- Invoke %EDITOR% to place content on the clipboard
• envgui -- Launch the Windows environment variable GUI
• get-tempfile -- Creates a temporary file (or directory) name for command scripts
• pathlist.py -- Pretty report of current path list, noting non-existent and duplicate entries
• pdfcat -- Concatenates multiple PDF files into one
• sleep -- One-liner simple sleep (in seconds)
• touch -- Creates/updates the timestamp of a given file
• upsearch -- Locate nearest target file upwards from current working directory
• vmove -- Batch move/rename utility using the preferred %EDITOR%

Snippets

• admin-launch.cmd -- Demonstrates how to auto-relaunch a script with admin priviledges
• failexit.cmd -- How to properly exit a CMD script with a non-zero exit code & ERRORLEVEL

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Steve Hollasch
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