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| Batch file examples | |||||||
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| 💾 | ❔ | Name | Version | Description | OS (1) | Last modified | Remarks |
| 💾 | ❔ | LastBoot.bat | 1.01 | Display the last boot time of any WMI enabled computer | XP | 2010-02-10 | Requires WMIC. |
| 💾 | ❔ | LastFile.bat | 1.00 | Reopen most recently used file from the Documents folder | NT | 2001-10-20 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | LastWUpd.bat | 1.00 | Return date and time of the last successful Windows Update | XP | 2009-09-11 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | LDIF2vCard.bat | Very basic LDIF to vCard converter | XP | 2013-11-28 | Fails on unescaped ampersands. May require some manual editing after conversion: e-mail addresses and phone numbers should always be preceded with either WORK: or HOME: or PREF: and sometimes these prefixes are swapped or left out. |
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| 💾 | ❔ | LeapYear.bat | 2.00 | Check if the current year is a leap year or not | DOS | 2002-12-16 | Requires BATCHMAN. Also available as JScript, KiXtart, Perl, PowerShell, Rexx and VBScript scripts. |
| 💾 | ❔ | LeapYear.bat | 1.01 | Check if the specified year is a leap year or not | NT | 2002-10-05 | Uses code to extract current year by Simon Sheppard. Also available as JScript, KiXtart, Perl, PowerShell, Rexx and VBScript scripts. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListADComputers.bat | 1.00 | List computer objects in Active Directory | XP | 2013-10-20 | Requires DSQUERY. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListDHCP.bat | 1.00 | List the DHCP server for every network adapter | XP | 2010-07-25 | Uses NETSH. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListHDDs.bat | 1.11 | List all physical harddisk models on a remote PC | W2K | 2009-12-02 | Requires WMIC or DEVCON. If neither WMIC nor DEVCON is available, you will be prompted to open the DEVCON download page. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListFilesBetween.bat | 1.02 | List matching files with timestamps between 2 specified dates | NT | 2011-11-12 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListICA.bat | 1.00 | List all IP addresses associated with Citrix' ICA round robin alias in DNS | NT | 2004-10-25 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListPRN.cmd | 2.01 | List specified (NT) or all (NT and OS/2) network printers' UNC path | NT OS2 | 2000-06-05 | Bonus C# source and compiled EXE included with ZIPped sources. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListProgs.bat | 1.11 | List all programs registered in Windows' Uninstall keys | NT | 2015-01-15 | Also available as ListProgs.exe (much faster). |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListSDKs.bat | 1.00 | List installed Microsoft SDKs, or display the version number for a specified SDK | XP | 2008-05-30 | Requires REG 3.0. |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListVerbs.bat | 1.00 | List all verbs for the specified file extension | W7 | 2022-02-17 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | ListWMIClasses.bat | 1.01 | List (a tiny fraction of the) available WMI classes in the "root\CIMV2" namespace | XP | 2010-09-29 | Requires WMIC. Also available in VBScript. |
| 💾 | ❔ | LoCase.bat | 3.00 | Convert filenames to all lowercase | NT OS2 | 2001-11-20 | 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. Also available as KiXtart and OS/2 Rexx scripts. |
| 💾 | ❔ | LockProg | How to lock single user programs when in use on a network | All | 1999-07-13 | ||
| 💾 | ❔ | LogBatch.bat | 1.00 | Log every individual command line of a batch file | W2K | 2007-11-07 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | LogHist.bat | 1.11 | Read URLs from IE history and write them to a file named %UserName%.hst | NT | 2003-10-20 | |
| 💾 | ❔ | LstOffVw.bat | 1.00 | List all Office Viewers and their version numbers | W2K | 2008-05-17 | Also available in VBScript. This batch file uses FILEVER.EXE and is about 10 times as fast as the WMI/VBScript version. |
| Notes: | (1) | Operating System version these batch files were written for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All | No version specific commands are used, though it is (obviously) not tested with every DOS version available | ||
| 95 | Windows 95 (and probably Windows 98 as well) | ||
| 98 | Windows 98 | ||
| DOS3 | MS-DOS 3 and 4 | ||
| DOS6+ | MS-DOS 6 and later | ||
| NT | Windows NT 4 and later | ||
| NT4 | Windows NT 4 (Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition too) | ||
| W2K | Windows 2000 and later | ||
| XP | Windows XP | ||
| W2K3 | Windows Server 2003 | ||
| W2K8 | Windows Server 2008 | ||
| W10 | Windows 10 | ||
| WV | Windows Vista | ||
| W2K8R2 | Windows Server 2008 Release 2 | ||
| W7 | Windows 7 | ||
| OS2 | OS/2 Warp | ||
| TS | Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition, or Windows Server 200* with Terminal Services | ||
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