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get filename without extension in BAT (Users)

posted by stabud, 04.05.2023, 04:35

> In which OS _does_ it work correctly ?

freedos (default)

> Please elaborate on exactly what you are trying to do
> and what the _expected_ result should be.

It is necessary to send a text file to the BAT parameter of the file and get its name without the extension , because the EXE file will be compiled from this text file. The name of this EXE is required to run. On other systems, this is not a problem, but on DOS the COMMAND.com interpreter is very simple and it does not seem to be able to get part of a filename in a simple way.

> That is NT's CMD.EXE, not DOS' COMMAND.COM.

I have already understood that DOS COMMAND.COM cannot do this without third-party tools. For some reason, some sites wrote that it works in DOS...

I found an alternative way: pass one more parameter to the BAT file, where I will specify the exact name.

Thanks everyone for the replies!

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