Checks to see if a specified amount of disk space is available. When used in a batch file, freedisk returns errorlevel=0 if there is enough space and errorlevel=1 if there is not enough space. For unattended installations, you...
Format a disk for use with Windows. The FAT and FAT32 files systems impose the following restrictions on the number of clusters on a volume:FAT: Number of clusters <= 65526FAT32: 65526 < Number of clusters < 4177918
Select a file (or set of files) and execute a command on each file. Batch processing. To include special characters in the command line, use the hexadecimal code for the character in 0xHH format (ex. 0x09...
Conditionally perform a command several times. The operation of the FOR command can be summarised as… Take a set of data Make a FOR Parameter %%G equal to some part of that data Perform a command...
Loop command: against the results of another command. FOR /F processing of a command consists of reading the output from the command one line at a time and then breaking the line up into...
Manage MiniFilter drivers. Load a Filter driver, Unload a Filter driver, List filter information, List all instances or the instances associated with a Filter or Volume, List all volumes (including the network redirectors), Attach or Detach a filter from a Volume. FLTMC requires an Elevated command prompt (either CMD or PowerShell)...
Search for a text string in a file (or multiple files) unlike the simple FIND command FINDSTR supports more complex regular expressions. When using /G or /F the text file should be a plain ANSI text...
Search for a text string in a file & display all the lines where it is found. If a [pathname] is not specified, FIND will prompt for text input or will accept text piped...
Compare the contents of two files or sets of files. Display any lines which do NOT match. Powershell also has an Alias FC for the Format-Custom cmdlet, therefore to run the ‘old’ FC under PowerShell you can explicitly...
Uncompress one or more compressed .CAB cabinet files. Extrac32.exe can be used from the command line but does not display any output on the console. (Extrac32.exe is part of Internet Explorer.) The output can...
