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--- software:microsoft:windows:commands [2017/02/07 19:44] – superwizard
+++ software:microsoft:windows:commands [2024/11/07 22:36] (current) – [Windows 10 folder with a name that has a trailing space] superwizard
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+====== Windows Commands ======
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\
+====== Windows 10 folder with a name that has a trailing space ======
+<WRAP center round box >
+-11-05
+Here you go:
+    rd   /s  /q  "\\?\D:\Woodlawn Data\Folder 9 "
+Please remember to mark my reply by clicking "Did this solve your problem?". It's your way of saying "Thank you".
+You have to dig much deeper than "rd /?" to find out what my syntax did. In essense \\?\ bypasses the Windows parsing process, thus allowing file/folder names that are basically illegal. Using the same syntax you could create a folder called "LPT1" or "ABC..." neither of which is allowed with the normal syntax.
+From <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/i-somehow-created-a-windows-10-folder-with-a-name/0968bff5-c5eb-4701-827b-d1bdb084ccc7>
+  Dir /x
+note the short name of the problem folder - this will end in ~1
+to rename the folder type the following and press enter
+  ren shortname~1
+From <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/remove-a-folder-with-space-at-the-end/2db209ad-9e82-41dd-b05b-4ed681845aa9>
+</WRAP>
+====== Windows command line continue line with ^ () or use variables ======
+<WRAP center round box >
+-03-09
+Multiple commands can be put in parenthesis and spread over numerous lines; so something like echo hi && echo hello can be put like this:
+  ( echo hi
+    echo hello )
+Also variables can help:
+  set AFILEPATH="C:\SOME\LONG\PATH\TO\A\FILE"
+  if exist %AFILEPATH% (
+    start "" /b %AFILEPATH% -option C:\PATH\TO\SETTING...
+  ) else (
+  ..
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69068/split-long-commands-in-multiple-lines-through-windows-batch-file/21000752#21000752
+</WRAP>
 ====== Scanner and Camera Wizard ======