Re: Announcing jj5-win

    del /s *
?

Maybe that doesn't work on XP..?   Try this...

    for /f "usebackq delims=" %I in (`dir /s /b /a-d`) do @del "%I"

Or expand to something like this, if you need special handling for
readonly/hidden files, or symlinks.

    for /f "usebackq delims=" %I in (`dir /s /b /a-d`) do (
        @attrib -s -h -r "%I"
        @del "%I"
    )

Even I haven't yet found the patience to learn powershell.   It was a great
idea, but the fact that they built the console UI with WPF frightens me
greatly.  (And I say that as a huge WPF fan...  it's just the wrong tool
for the job.  And the wrong job for the tool, from a program mgmt
perspective -- there are dozens maybe hundreds of OS features that could
benefit from a WPF rewrite.  But the cmd console?  wtf...  yeah I really
wanted my cmd console process to use 30x more memory, and scroll shit slow
because my server box can't do hw accel clipping, or rasterization of font
glyphs, or what have you)

Anyway, long ago, before the advent of powershell...  for anything that I
couldn't reasonably do via ordinary cmd script, I wrote a little 2-line
script to compile and execute a JScript.NET file.

I still have a collection of about a dozen of those little .js scriptlets,
which I use for things like beautifying xml files, converting a text file
to/from UTF8 or UTF16, converting tabs to spaces in source files, etc etc.

I should clean up those scripts and post them somewhere.   JScript.NET is
all but abandoned, as a language, I gather, but the jsc.exe compiler for
CLR v2 is preinstalled on Windows, so as long as that remains true, who
cares.  :-)

-S


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:46 PM, John Elliot <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-03-25 11:25, Adwait Ullal wrote:
> > Powershell?
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> BASH? :)
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> I think I'm done learning about new Microsoft technology. :P
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> I'm still running Windows XP (in VMWare Fusion on my Mac) and can't see
> myself upgrading any time soon.
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> I'll just kick along with my old tricks for now.
>
> What did you think of my idea of finding distinct characters to use in
> 'IDs' and 'codes' provided by my software? I think this could be a huge
> boost to productivity as misheard and misread characters waste the time
> of a lot of people every day.
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