Proposal: New subforum in Language Specific Discussion for BAT and CMD

[Exit 75]

Since BAT/CMD scripts have become a real scripting language, there should be also a subforum in the Language Specific Discussion forum.    

Just to prove the power of BAT scripts, here a licence key script.  I know there is also a working au3 solution.

@echo off
call :LicenseKeys >"%Temp%\~~%~n0.txt"
"%Temp%\~~%~n0.txt"
erase "%Temp%\~~%~n0.txt"
goto :eof

:LicenseKeys
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft" /reg:64 /s /v DigitalProductId  ^&^& reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft" /reg:64 /s /v DigitalProductId') do (
 set t=%%i
 set t=!t:~0,5!
 if .!t!. == .HKEY_. (echo.
  call :ProductInfo "%%i %%j %%k"))
goto :eof

:ProductInfo
    setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
    set FunctionName=%~0
 echo RegistryName=%~1
 for /f "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('reg query "%~1" /v *Product*  /reg:64') do (
  if %%i==ProductName (echo ProductName: %%k)
  if %%i==ProductId (echo ProductId: %%k)
  if %%i==ProductID (echo ProductID: %%k)
  if /I %%i==DigitalProductId (call :ProductKey "%%k"
   echo ProductKey: !ProductKey!))
 goto :eof

:ProductKey
    setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
    set FunctionName=%~0
    set RegData=%~1
    set Validchars=BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789
 if .%RegData:~0,2%. == .A4. set HexString=%RegData:~104,30%
 if .%RegData:~0,2%. == .F8. set HexString=%RegData:~1616,30%
 for /l %%i in (0,2,28) do (set /a j=%%i/2
  set /a StringArray[!j!]=0x!HexString:~%%i,2!)
 set /a "IsWin8=(StringArray[14] & 8)/8"
 set /a "StringArray[14]=StringArray[14] - !IsWin8! * 8"
    for /l %%i in (0,1,24) do (set value=0
        for /l %%j in (14,-1,0) do (set /a value=StringArray[%%j] + !value! * 256
            set /a StringArray[%%j]="( !value! / 24 ) & 255"
            set /a value%%=24
            set /a Win8Pos=!value!)
        for %%j in (!value!) do set key=!Validchars:~%%j,1!!key!)
 If %IsWin8% == 1 (set /A "Win8Pos1=24-Win8Pos"
  set Win8Pos1=-!Win8Pos1!
  call set t1=%%key:~1,!Win8Pos!%%
  call set t2=%%key:~!Win8Pos1!%%
  set key=!t1!N!t2!)
    endlocal & set %FunctionName:~1%=%key:~0,5%-%key:~5,5%-%key:~10,5%-%key:~15,5%-%key:~20,5%
 goto :eof

May we convince the admins to create such a subforum ?

[guinness 1,458]

Isn't PowerShell really meant to be replacing batch scripting?

Edited July 13, 2015 by guinness
Typo

[JohnOne 1,589]

There are tons of languages, I'd really hate to see the all listed.

[Exit 75]

Isn't PowerShell really meant to be replacing batch scripting?

Due to the default execution policy 'restriced', it is hard to execute PS-scrpts on other PCs.

But we might expand the powershell forum to also handle BAT and CMD ?

[guinness 1,458]

I would add there, as it's kind of related. I agree with @JohnOne that we don't need a sub forum for every language. I would like Java and PHP there, but am fine with C# too.

[Jon 861]

Due to the default execution policy 'restriced', it is hard to execute PS-scrpts on other PCs.

But we might expand the powershell forum to also handle BAT and CMD ?

If you run it like "powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File myscript.ps1" then it works fine. 

The idea was to just have the new common sexy(!) IT admin focused languages explicitly listed. Everything else can go in the general dev forum unless it warrants its own forum.

Edited July 13, 2015 by Jon

[UEZ 1,081]

I would suggest to add Assembler to the list because there are plenty of inline Assembler routines which are useful.

 

Thanks.

[Skysnake 50]

I like this idea.  And, bear in mind that bat and cmd is very close to origins of AutoIt.  GUIs are pretty and probably a whole issue all by themselves

[JohnOne 1,589]

The idea, is now reality.

[TheDcoder 604]

I say remove all the sub-forums & use tags instead, this way we can post questions for any language, TD

[Jon 861]

The search system breaks when you start trying to limit on tags so searching by forum is the best way at the mo.  Hopefully upcoming search changes will address problems like this. 

[TheDcoder 604]

@Jon Oh , I rarely use the search

[JLogan3o13 1,270]

Yes, we are aware

[JohnOne 1,589]

[kcvinu 64]

But learners and newbies are usually using search.

[TheDcoder 604]

Yes, we are aware

Stop teasing me

[JLogan3o13 1,270]

I'd have to start, first

[TheDcoder 604]

@JLogan3o13 I thought that you were teasing me because I ***used to*** ask questions without searching the forums