Winbatch

I've posted quite few batch commands to this site in the past, including the very first Tip of the Night on April 10, 2015, which showed how to use the DOS batch command dir to get a list of files in a folder.

WinBatch is a scripting language that uses DOS batch commands with the Basic and C scripting languages. There is a WinBatch tech database in which you can find scripts to accomplish a variety of common tasks, and a trial version of WinBatch Navigator can be downloaded for free here, http://www.winbatch.com/download.html .

So if you open WinBatch Navigator and click on the WinBatch Studio utility, a script editor will open. You can copy scripts from the tech database, enter them in the editor and then save them as files with a .wbt extension.

A script such as this one:

;Count lines in a file - one way anyway fn="C:\test\filename.txt" count=0 handle=FileOpen(fn,"READ") While @TRUE line=FileRead(handle) If line=="*EOF*" Break Else count=count+1 EndIf EndWhile FileClose(handle) Message("Lines in the file",count)

. . . will count the number of lines in text file listed on the second line.

So for this text file:

. . . we get this result:

Find the IP Address of a Website

If you want to find the IP address of a web site, simply use the tracert command in Windows. Simply follow tracert, with a web address. The first line will indicate the IP address of the targeted site.

Windows command where

You can use the windows command 'where' to find all of the .exe executable files in a given directory. See this example:

The where command find all files followed by the extension '.exe', in the C drive directory, and then lists them in c<\foofolder in the text file named 'exelist.txt' that is generated.