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Determine version of TCMD.EXE available for download

Joe Caverly

Joe Caverly

Aug
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.btm to show the version of TCMD.EXE available for download.

Code: 
R:\>aiu 
Getting File info for https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/TCMD.EXE
Name           : Take Command 33.0.9
Product Version: 33.0.9
Release Date   : 19/09/2024

Code: 
@SETLOCAL
@ECHO OFF
::    File: aiu.btm
:: Created: 2024-09-20
::   _4ver: 33.00
:: _winver: 10.0
iff %_x64 eq 1 then
    iff %_admin eq 1 then
        iff %_elevated eq 1 then
        :: NEXT SENTENCE
    else
        echo Note that this .BTM was tested on a 64-bit version of Windows,
        echo as Administrator,
        echo from an elevated process.
        echo.
        echo You are running the following;
        echo      _x64: 1
        echo    _admin: 1
        echo _elevated: 1
        pause
        endiff
    endiff
endiff

:: Drive R:\ is a 2GB RAMDrive
if isdir r:\temp set temp=r:\temp

iff %1 eq edit then
    tcedit aiu.btm
    quit
endiff

iff %1 eq view then
view aiu.btm
    quit
endiff

echo Getting File info for https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/TCMD.EXE
copy /q https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu %temp
  
iff exist %temp\tcmdupdate.aiu then
  echo Name           : %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,Name]
  echo Product Version: %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,ProductVersion]
  echo Release Date   : %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,ReleaseDate]
else
  echo %temp\tcmdupdate.aiu does not exist.
endif

ENDLOCAL

Joe
 
Alternatively (for part of it)

Code: 
v:\> type "https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu" | tpipe /grep=3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"^Name|ProductVersion|ReleaseDate"
Name = Take Command 33.0.9
ProductVersion = 33.0.9
ReleaseDate = 19/09/2024

Or with Gnu grep.

Code: 
v:\> type "https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu" | grep -E "^Name|ProductVersion|ReleaseDate"
Name = Take Command 33.0.9
ProductVersion = 33.0.9
ReleaseDate = 19/09/2024

I tried IF EXIST on the URL and got strange results.

Code: 
v:\> if exist "https://jp" echo yes
yes
 
Works quite well as an alias;
Code: 
aiu=type "https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu" | tpipe /grep=3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"^Name|ProductVersion|ReleaseDate"

Code: 
U:\>aiu 
Name = Take Command 33.0.9
ProductVersion = 33.0.9
ReleaseDate = 19/09/2024

U:\>which aiu 
aiu is an alias : type "https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu" | tpipe /grep=3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"^Name|ProductVersion|ReleaseDate"

Joe
 
Several of us are seeing this. It is being discussed here, in the Support forum.
 
Apologies.

I updated this back on October 9 to use curl instead of internal copy.

Joe

Code: 
@SETLOCAL
@ECHO OFF
::    File: aiu.btm
:: Created: 2024-09-20
::   _4ver: 33.00
:: _winver: 10.0
iff %_x64 eq 1 then
    iff %_admin eq 1 then
        iff %_elevated eq 1 then
        :: NEXT SENTENCE
    else
        echo Note that this .BTM was tested on a 64-bit version of Windows,
        echo as Administrator,
        echo from an elevated process.
        echo.
        echo You are running the following;
        echo      _x64: 1
        echo    _admin: 1
        echo _elevated: 1
        pause
        endiff
    endiff
endiff

:: Drive R:\ is a 2GB RAMDrive
if isdir r:\temp set temp=r:\temp

iff %1 eq edit then
    tcedit aiu.btm
    quit
endiff

iff %1 eq view then
view aiu.btm
    quit
endiff

echo Getting File info for https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/TCMD.EXE
::copy /q https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu %temp
::As of 2024/10/09 returns TCC: HTTP protocol error. 403 Forbidden. "https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu"
::Switched to curl.exe instead of copy.
curl.exe -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0" -O https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu

if exist tcmdupdate.aiu move /q tcmdupdate.aiu %temp
  
iff exist %temp\tcmdupdate.aiu then
  echo Name           : %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,Name]
  echo Product Version: %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,ProductVersion]
  echo Release Date   : %@iniread[%temp\tcmdupdate.aiu,Update,ReleaseDate]
  echo Installed Vers : %_4ver.%_build
else
  echo %temp\tcmdupdate.aiu does not exist.
endif

ENDLOCAL

Results:
Code: 
U:\>aiu 
Getting File info for https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/TCMD.EXE
Name           : Take Command 33.0.18
Product Version: 33.0.18
Release Date   : 04/11/2024
Installed Vers : 33.00.15

Joe
 
While that's being fixed, you could use CURL.EXE and FINDSTR.EXE (both Windows built-in) to download the the .aiu file and get version info out of it. This works here. [Or TPIPE's grep as you did for more information.]

Code: 
v:\> curl.exe -s -A "moi" -O https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu & findstr /C:"Version = " tcmdupdate.aiu
ProductVersion = 33.0.18
Version = 33.0.18.0
 
Indeed.

Thanks Vince;
Code: 
curl.exe -s -A "moi" -O https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu & type tcmdupdate.aiu | tpipe /grep=3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"^Name|ProductVersion|ReleaseDate"

Output;
Code: 
Name = Take Command 33.0.18
ProductVersion = 33.0.18
ReleaseDate = 04/11/2024

Joe
 
About curl:

Apparently, the curl.exe in Windows is v8.9.1. It's somehow related to Gnu and it has no manual.

Code: 
v:\> curl --version
curl 8.9.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.9.1 Schannel zlib/1.3 WinIDN
Release-Date: 2024-07-31
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets

v:\> curl --manual
Warning: built-in manual was disabled at build-time

This was easy to find.

Code: 
v:\> d:\gnu\curl --version
curl 8.11.0 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/8.11.0 LibreSSL/4.0.0 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.6 WinIDN libpsl/0.21.5 libssh2/1.11.1 nghttp2/1.64.0 ngtcp2/1.9.1 nghttp3/1.6.0
Release-Date: 2024-11-06
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli CAcert HSTS HTTP2 HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM PSL SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe UnixSockets zstd

And g:\gnu\curl --manual gives a ~7000 line manual. I copied only curl.exe and libcurl-x64.dll from the distribution zipfile.
 
And you don't have to save it to a file. Without "-O" it goes to stdout. A binary file would probably make a mess.

Code: 
v:\> curl -s -A "moi" https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmdupdate.aiu | grep Version
ProductVersion = 33.0.18
Version = 33.0.18.0
 
You can get header info also.

Code: 
d:\gnu> 2>&1 curl -s -v -X HEAD -A "moi" https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v33/tcmd.exe | grep -E "last-modified|content-length" | cut -d " " -f3-
92558160
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:11:27 GMT
 
Joe Caverly said:
Here's the unofficial manual page for CURL, which was added to Windows 10 (1803) from build 17063 or later.

CURL - Windows CMD - SS64.com

ss64.com ss64.com

Joe
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I'll bet a lot of the stuff mentioned there has been removed from the WIndows one (like the manual). The Windows curl.exe is 676,400 bytes while the one I got today is 3,638,888 (plus a 3,188,840 byte libcurl-x64.dll).
 
Here's how to get the commands available with the Windows version of curl.exe;
Code: 
curl.exe --help

Joe
 
Joe Caverly said:
Here's how to get the commands available with the Windows version of curl.exe;
Code: 
curl.exe --help

Joe
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But the manual in the one I downloaded shows hundreds of command line options. You can also, for example, curl --help http and get more help. That's as far as I looked and I didn't find any mention of -X HEAD, needed to get file size and time. I like having all the help in one file. I knew the HEAD method was needed so I searched the file for (case sensitive) "HEAD" and found the -X option.
 
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