(view source code of wmialias.bat as plain text)
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
:: Check command line and WMIC availabilityIF NOT "%~2"=="" GOTO Syntax
IF "%~1"=="/?" GOTO Syntax
WMIC /? >NUL 2>&1 || GOTO Syntax
SET SortOrder=ByAlias
SET Alias=
IF NOT "%~1"=="" (
IF /I "%~1"=="/SORT" (
SET SortOrder=ByClassName
) ELSE (
REM Alias consists of 2 or more letters, no other characters allowedECHO "%~1"| FINDSTR.EXE /R /X /I /C:"\""[a-z][a-z][a-z]*\""" >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Syntax
SET Alias=%~1
))CALL :List
ENDLOCAL
GOTO:EOF
:ListECHO ALIAS: WMI CLASS NAME:
ECHO.====== ===============
SET AliasList=
SET ClassList=
FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=1,5" %%A IN ('WMIC ALIAS %1 Get FriendlyName^,Target') DO (
REM Append 20 spaces to aliasSET AliasList.%%A=%%A
SET ClassList.%%B=%%A
REM Chop alias plus spaces at 20 charactersSET AliasList.%%A=!AliasList.%%A:~0,20!
SET ClassList.%%B=!ClassList.%%B:~0,20!
REM Append class nameSET AliasList.%%A=!AliasList.%%A! %%B
SET ClassList.%%B=!ClassList.%%B! %%B
)IF "%SortOrder%"=="ByClassName" (
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('SET ClassList') DO ECHO.%%B
) ELSE IF NOT "%Alias%"=="" (
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('SET AliasList ^| FIND /I "=%Alias%"') DO ECHO.%%B
) ELSE (
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('SET AliasList') DO ECHO.%%B
)GOTO:EOF
:SyntaxECHO.
ECHO WMIAlias.bat, Version 1.01 for Windows XP professional and later
ECHO Return WMI class name for specified WMIC alias, or list all if none specified
ECHO.
ECHO Usage: WMIALIAS [ alias ^| /SORT ]
ECHO.
ECHO Where: alias is a WMIC alias, e.g. "bios" for the "Win32_BIOS" class
ECHO /SORT sort output by WMI class name (default: sort by WMIC alias)
ECHO.
ECHO Notes: If no alias is specified, all WMIC aliases and their WMI class names
ECHO will be listed.
ECHO Listed output is sorted by WMIC alias name by default, or by WMI class
ECHO name if the /SORT switch is used.
ECHO.
ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude
ECHO https://www.robvanderwoude.com
ENDLOCAL
EXIT /B 1
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