Batch files - Examples (L*)

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Batch file examples
	Name	Description	OS (1)	Last modified (DD/MM/YYYY)	Remarks
	LastFile.bat	Reopen most recently used file from the Documents folder	NT	20/10/2001
	LeapYear.bat (DOS)	Check if the current year is a leap year or not	DOS	16/12/2002	DOS version uses BatchMan by Michael Mefford. NT version uses code to extract current year by Simon Sheppard. Also available as JScript, Kix, Perl, PowerShell, Rexx and VBScript scripts.
	LeapYear.bat (NT)	Check if the specified year is a leap year or not	NT	05/10/2002
	ListICA.bat	List all IP addresses associated with Citrix' ICA round robin alias in DNS	NT	25/10/2004
	LstOffVw.bat	List all Office Viewers and their version numbers	W2K	17/05/2008	Also available in VBScript. This batch file uses FILEVER.EXE and is about 10 times as fast as the WMI/VBScript version.
	ListPRN.cmd	List specified (NT) or all (NT and OS/2) network printers' UNC path	NT OS2	05/06/2000
	ListSDKs.bat	List installed Microsoft SDKs, or display the version number for a specified SDK	XP	30/05/2008
	LoCase.bat UpCase.bat	Convert filenames to all uppercase or all lowercase	NT OS2	20/11/2001	New LoCase.bat uses a trick by Niels Stout; it is much faster, but can be used in the current directory only; the old version is still available in case you need to rename files in other directories. Available for OS/2 (Rexx) as well: LoCase.cmd and UpCase.cmd Now also available in KiXtart: LoCase.kix and UpCase.kix
	LockProg	How to lock single user programs when in use on a network	All	13/07/1999
	LogBatch.bat	Log every individual command line of a batch file	W2K	07/11/2007
	LogHist.bat	Read URLs from IE history and write them to a file named %UserName%.hst	NT	20/10/2003