Charles, yes, that's generally recommended even though it's not always essential. I still often write commands at the prompt that have no daylight in them, but I have tried to force myself to be more proper in my batch files. I figure the fewer ways my own coding might trip up the parser, the...

I admit to not fully understanding your explanation of the problem but I guess that's not necessary. I've edited the file, left a note in it as to why the options are all now mashed together (a habit I used to have which took a long time to break) and can confirm that all now works as expected...

Success! Well, success in the sense that I think I found the cause of failure. I played around with the very simple form of the command that I used in my original post pretty extensively at the prompt and had the sorting perform as requested every time, so I eventually revisited the original...

Rats, I was really hoping this issue wasn't specific to me. I get different results from the same batch file and same test commands in side-by-side v15 and v19 windows. Rex: 64-bit 19.00.52 on Win 7 Pro. No alias for DO, now or ever. I'll try going to 19.00.54, though I'm not expecting that...

I ran an old v15-era batch file in v19 yesterday and got some unexpected results. I got the information I expected but in the wrong order. Some investigation quickly revealed that the sorting option I use on the batch's DO command isn't being honored in v19. It can easily be tested at the...

I never knew that LIST /U will display a ruler on the second line until I read it in the help file a few minutes ago. When I tried this in v15, it worked perfectly. However, it didn't work for me in v19 (64-bit 19.10.51, Win 7). Not only was the ruler not displayed, LIST itself immediately...

...says the mathematics professor. :smile:

pb4072, @EVAL lets you do some pretty advanced math as well. It supports exponentiation, bit-manipulation operations, logarithms, trigonometric functions, etc., etc. Want to know what pi is out to 15,000 decimal places? It's got that covered. It's really quite a powerful function should you...

As the title says, TCC v19 does not seem to properly sort DIR and PDIR output by description for me when /O:I or /O:AI is specified as the sorting option, which is very necessary for me to do a few specific tasks that aren't worth explaining. Instead, I get a purely alphabetical (by file name)...

NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

It's slow, kludgy and probably not an ideal solution but when I want/need something like you mentioned, I merely pipe the output from TREE into LIST. That gives me the ability to scroll downward and upward through the list -- unlike a simple TREE /P -- as well as search it. Issuing **\ from a...

Will TCMD launch successfully with any true console app in its second tab? "Good" ol' CMD, for instance. If so, then I might tend to suspect something with your editor itself or a strange interaction between it and TCMD. (I'm assuming the editor loads without incident in a standalone instance...

Try entering "about:about" (without the quotes, of course) into the address bar sometime to see more of the secret things you can explore. There are quite a few.

DJ, please excuse the extremely tangential and off-topic nature of this post but the linguistic stickler in me noted something that I felt compelled to mention. "Depreciated versions should adapt to the next higher supported version." I'm virtually certain that the appropriate word in that...

Just as an aside, Classic Shell is the only thing I found that gave me back the plain, simple (and for me, preferred) Start menu, which is otherwise unavailable in Vista+.