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A batch file is the name given to a type of script file, a text file containing a series of commands to be executed by the command interpreter under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.

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I have a remote machine which executes a number of measurement tasks. Users are supposed to execute a startup via command line (login via SSH). The machine has one non-admin user which is supposed to ...
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Trying to drag and drop onto a Python script does not work. Dragging over it does not show anything and ('consequently') dropping is not working. Dropping a file on a bat file works. Also dragging ...
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I am trying to create a pair of group policies, one that removes Office365, and one that deploys Office2024 LTSC during startup. I have created XML files for each of these processes and tested them ...
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I had a sleep loop at first that used timeout /t 300 but then I needed simple interop, like being able to restart the script without waiting ~2.5 minutes. My only attempted solution is to run timeout /...
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One wildcard batch copy works for me: sudo cp /home/jenkins/dist/*.war /opt/tomcat/webapps/ but another similar doesn't: sudo cp /opt/tomcat/webapps/*.war /home/jenkins/archive cp: cannot stat '/opt/...
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Win+R. dcomcnfg > I need to register a new dll using this tool as a COM. I can do this manually. But I have a lot of WS. regsvr32 is not enough. The COM App need to exist in dcomcnfg So, can it be ...
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I need to Delete selected subkeys in a registry key. For one of the subkeys I need to delete I tried: (SET _KEY=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UFH\SHC) REG Delete "HKCU\%_KEY%" /V ...
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I have a set of older batch files that scheduled the running of some maintenance tasks for a database that I look after. They used the AT command. The database has been moved to Windows server 2016 ...
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Edit: This question has been answered, please scroll down ⬇️ This question is related to Server Fault because I am automating minifying some web files before deploying them to my server. So I have a ...
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I'm having a weird issue with creating Group Policy on an inherited Domain Controller. This thing was never set up properly, and I'm not well versed in working with Group Policy. We are running ...
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im trying to run psql.exe (postgreSQL) with an active code page set to 1252. I want to have a batch file that opens up a command prompt with that code page, then navigates to the psql directory to run ...
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I have some terabytes of data in our legacy system which runs SQL server. Our newer version runs on MongoDB. We are migrating this data to MongoDB. We have python scripts written and verfied, all data ...
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I have to restore a backup from a Linux MariaDB to a Windows MariaDB, where the PowerBI gateway will import its data. "mariabackup" is MariaDB's physical backup tool. But to restore it, the ...
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I have been advised to ask this question here on ServerFault. I've searched StackExchange, StackOverflow, and Google and I'm not finding any insights on how to reset the prompt when first connecting a ...
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I have about 10 "at" jobs. There are cases where there is a conflict of resources and I am trying to find a neat way to schedule this. Say, job#5 may want to start before the job#4 ends. ...

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