Top "Dos" questions

A family of disk-based operating systems (Disk Operating System) for mainframes and minicomputers in the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently IBM PCs and compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS.

Batch Combine CSV Remove Header

I have multiple CSV files with the same header and I'm trying to combine them together in Batch and keep …

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What is the DOS equivalent of 1>/dev/null?

I want to suppress the output of my script running under DOS, similar to the following under a *nix environment: $ …

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Iterating through folders and files in batch file?

Here's my situation. A project has as objective to migrate some attachments to another system. These attachments will be located …

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Batch copy only modified files

I have 2 folders (say Source and Working)...Now within these, there are 100s of other files/folders.. Now, the folder …

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Print integer to console in x86 assembly

When I add two values in 16 bit assembly, what is the best way to print the result to console? At …

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.bat file to create a complex string variable with special characters

I need to create a single string variable by concatenating multiple strings. The final string i need is as below &…

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Delete all files while maintaining directory structure

Given the directory structure c:\a\b\c\d\ - what DOS command will delete all files contained in c:\…

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System() calls in C++ and their roles in programming

I've often heard that using system("PAUSE") is bad practice and to use std::cin.get() instead. Now my understanding …

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Is there a way in a batch script to keep the console open only if invoked from Windows Manager?

I have a DOS batch script that invokes a java application which interacts with the user through the console UI. …

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In Batch: Read only the filename from a variable with path and filename

I am currently looking for a way to take a variable in batch and only parse out the filename. For …

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