FOR /F (Windows loop) How to make delims not singl

[xcislav]

In loop FOR /F there is very good block separator delims= tokens=. But
I'm frustrated that delims can hold only 1 symbol. But I want to extract
from list only machines which run on 'Windows 2000' like:
FOR /F "delims='Windows 2000' tokens=2" %%i in (genlist.txt) do systeminfo /s %%i

File genlist.txt was produced by listing all the computers on network:
@echo off
FOR /F %%i in ('net view ^| find ""') do echo %%i

[jvierra]

delims=xxx - specifies a delimiter set. This replaces the default delimiter set of space and tab.

Delimiters in 'delim' argument are a collection of characters used to break a line into tokens like spaces, commas or semi-colons. They are treated one character at a time.

delim=,.;:|!{}[]

delim should not be used to try and match string in a file. Use FINDSTR to find lines that contain a specific string.

[jvierra]

Here is a better way to get the matching OS types from the network:

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wmic /node:ws001,ws002,alpha  os get csname,name | find /i "Windows 2000"
wmic /node:@"c:computers.txt"  os get csname,name | find /i "Windows 2000"
wmic /node:@"c:computers.txt"  os get csname,name | find /i "Windows 2000" /format:csv
wmic /OUTPUT:output.csv /node:@servers.txt OS get csname,name /format:csv
wmic /node:@"c:computers.txt"  os get csname,name | find /i "Windows 2000" /format:rawxml.xsl
wmic /node:@"c:computers.txt" path win32_operatingsystem where "name like '%2000%'" get csname,name

http://support.microsoft.com/servicedes ... eusage.asp

jvierra2010-12-23 10:01:34