Who would have thought a simple question like "what version of windows
am I running under?" would be so complicated?
This stub retrieves the number as a string. A complete working script
which parses ver and responds accordingly is attached as
winver2.cmd.
For practical purposes you might be better off with Simon Sheppard's
approach.
~~~~ {.prettyprint}
@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%x in ('ver') do set WINVER=%%x
set WINVER=%WINVER:Version =%
echo CMD version is %winver%
~~~~
A one liner for the major number (reg.exe not always available, XP and
newer I think):
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentVersion
References
Windows Version Table
Scraped from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...ne_of_releases
Product name
Current Version / Build
Windows 1.01
1.01
Windows 2.03
2.03
Windows 2.10
2.10
Windows 2.11
2.11
Windows 3.0
3.0
Windows 3.1x
3.1
Windows For Workgroups
3.1
3.1
Windows NT
3.1
NT …continue.
Once again I find myself a slightly better Windows script writer thanks
the excellent reference pages provided by
ss64.com. The
particular situation I was stumped by, is wanting to be able to set a
variable to the contents of another variable rather than the variable
name. The answer? Use 3 percent signs in a loop.
:: Notice that to evaluate the contents of %pc1%
:: requires triple ‘%’ symbols i.e CALL SET _pc_name=%%%_pc_name%%%
This is one
CALL
I’m very happy to have made.
What was my goal? To estimate the number of indexable documents in use
on our shared departmental fileserver, in order to get an idea of what
size of Google
Mini
or search …continue.
A recent thread on the osgeo4w mailing list prompted me to scratch an itch
I’ve encountered a few times: trying to figure out if there is more than one
executable DLL or EXE in the search path with the same name. The result is
dupe-search.bat. Invocation is a simple dupe-search [dir to look for dupes
of], example:
dupe-search c:\osgeo4w\bin
Results are saved in %temp%\dupes.txt
It’s not all that intelligent, there is no effort to avoid text files for
example, but it works well enough for what it does (for me anyway). The most
significant thing I learned, had me scratching my head for a couple of hours,
was that a …continue.