Dos batch sort files

Also, check out these handy Windows Command Prompt tricks to use it like a pro. Batch Files are a handy way of doing things. If you are regularly into doing any particular task, then rather than repeating the same steps over and over again, you could create a batch file and simply execute it. In other cases, a batch file is also used if you wish to execute numerous lines of codes at one go, as is the case while entering fastboot commands for flashing the stock firmware.

With that, you might have got the general concept of these batch files. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 8 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 10k times. I have the following within a batch file. The FTP command can be started from a batch file. This example shows how to enhance a program with persistent settings that can be changed using a menu.

Choose 1 again to change the 'Install version' back to 'Client'. Choose 2 to change the 'Size of installation' from Full to 'Regular'. Choose 2 again to change the 'Size of installation' to 'Mini'. Choose 2 again to change the 'Size of installation' back to 'Full'. Choose I to begin the installation. Note: this example is just a simulation and will not install anything on your PC. This batch creates a lookup list of all files on the C: drive.

When running the batch the first time type a hyphen in order to build the lookup list first. This batch allows string substitution in a text file.

It parses each line of a text file for a particular string and replaces it with another string. To replace all occurrences of "Yellow Submarine" in "color. Did you ever pull the paper out of your printer to stop it from printing? Then surly next thing you did was power cycling the printer to empty the printer buffer and then cancelling the print job from the printer spooler on your PC.

The print job sometimes remains a long time in the printer queue before finally disappearing and allowing the next print job to be processed. This is annoying on my box it takes up to 5 minutes. This little batch gets it done. It temporarily stops the spooler service and removes all files from the printer queue. Beware though that all printer jobs will be deleted, not only the ones that got canceled.

This simple menu framework parses itself for batch labels of certain signature and lists them as menu items. The self-parsing feature makes the menu generic. New menu items can be inserted by adding new function blocks without changing the menu infrastructure. Date and Time functions are useful for: Calculations with date and time values Determine the age of files in days Determine the date difference in days. The example in this section demonstrates how to use the :ftime function to determine the age in days of all files in the temp directory.

Two variables are used tnow - stores the current day in julian days format by calling :jdate tfile - stores the file date in julian days format by calling :ftime. Read more about this behavior in the SET command help bottom half of the help text. If you frequently find yourself calling FTP from the command line, each time having to login and change directory and change FTP modes, until you finally get where you want be in order to do some real work then you may wish to get there with a singe click.

This little batch can connect to your FTP server and logs you in before it gives you the prompt. The "C" locale yields the fastest collating sequence and is currently the only alternative. The sort is always case insensitive. Specifies the amount of main memory to use for the sort, in kilobytes. The memory size is always constrained to be a minimum of kilobytes. If the memory size is specified the exact amount will be used for the sort, regardless of how much main memory is available. Specifies the file to be sorted.

If not specified, the standard input is sorted.