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get filename without extension in BAT (Users)

posted by glennmcc  , North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 04.05.2023, 17:09

> > 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...

Yeah...
I have noticed that many WinAddicts refer to the NTVDM
as being DOS, but it is of-course _NOT_ 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!

Well, at-least you found a workaround to get what you need in _real_ DOS.

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