I'm posting this in case someone else is haunted by the same "bug". Well, maybe it really is a bug, but not with what I thought. Lately it has happened from...
... Lotta, I get the same result, blank or all lines commented out selected text is cut. One working line, setting a variable, ie, interrupts the text cut. -- ...
Thanks for the post Lotta, This explains a mystery I had encountered in the past, but could not duplicate. I guess if a clip is empty and you execute it on a...
... I suspected I wasn't alone. :-) ... Yes, that seems to be what happens. But figuring that out wasn't painless. A dummy command goes at top of unfinished...
Is there a way to grab the output? I want to do a trace route that is pretty long and not have to type the output. Can I run the command prompt and capture...
... Probably a silly question: Just adding "> file.txt" after the command does not work? N.B: For those who have not heard: 4DOS has become freeware! Looking...
... Not sure whether they're mandatory, but I always place a space before and after the ">". I mostly use this redirect for stdout with dir and sometimes with...
... Funny, it shouldn't. But obviously the command is more tolerant about its command syntax than the help leads you to believe. As far as I'm aware the...
... I tried this a got the output below. I need help interpreting it. Since this is OT please email me privately or move to NT/OT Thanks, -mb ... Tracing route...
... Works for me as well now in your format. I'm thinking that maybe when I specified nothing for directory that it worked and I just don't know where it went...
... Don, The format: command [options] > filename.txt takes the output of the command and puts it in the text file in the directory from which the command was...
... One other way to get the text of a command's output is with copy & paste. In Windows it needs to be in a window. Right-Click the title bar and there are...
Excuse me. I found answer to part 2 about removing words in all caps. I asked the question earlier in the year and someone answered. I had not followed...
... GetDocMatchAll uses regular expressions where the parentheses have special meaning. So you need to escape them if you mean them literally. Without changing...
Larry Hamilton wrote: I didn't know this ... I didn't know this either -- my gosh you people are smart. ... I did know about f4 and f5, so that helped so that...
... Thanks Lotta, I missed this one. ^$GetDosOutput(tracert domain.com)$ Works fine. Now I can spice that up by asking for the domain.name in a wizard. I could...
If I read what you have written correctly, you don't know what character is going to be between the parens. If that is the case, you would find it as follows: ...
Don, I find it so handy I put the clip on a button. My version is simply: ^$GetDosOutput("^?[Dos command=dir c:\projects\*.*]")$ *************** Since about...
I know I can use search disk to search a group of files and open them if they have my search term. In this case I don't want to actually open the files, I just...
... Will a quick half-answer suffice? You can call the program in a clip with > temp.txt and then open that file right after. I don't know how to wait for the...
Jody is missed today. Nothing new there. I am using his DirStuff clipbook today. I encountered a minor error in one of the clips so I thought I would point...
... Given that the single character in parentheses is a word character, you may try... ^!Set %Search%=^?{Enter search string:} ^!SetListDelimiter ^P ^!Set...
... If I understand correctly, your (?) means any one of these: (A), (B), ...,(Z), (a), (b),..., (z), and it must occur at the line end. In that case, I would...
Wondering if anyone has written clips to convert accented characters to UTF-8 format. The problem: XML files written by some applications are UTF-8. When those...
Bob Gorman (bgorman@...) wrote (in part) (on 2008-09-06 at ... Great tip ... be careful not to run the clip while you have this clip or another open. ...