Batch Programing: Lesson 3 (Create Text Files and Extract from them)

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Playlist: • How To Program In Batch
In the video we cover how to create text files as well as extract from them. We start of with learning how to output to text file and then create a password create and check program!!
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[@JoseMedina-xl5sj]

Is unbelievable how many people wouldn't even appreciate the effort and the work this kid has put on his tutorials. I would say stop judging him; his tutorials are offering plenty of knowledge for all of us who are new to this stuff. Maybe those judges should just stop watching this videos, since they already know everything, they most likely don't need them. Great job kid! Keep it up! I am learning something new with your tutorials. Oh, and thank you very much for all your efforts!

[@technologycrazy]

Thanks man!

[@technologystrong5190]

That is quiet mean of them. I agree.

[@Jordan-ez2gn]

Well, I was so close to quitting when he brought out the token thingy, I was so confused and pissed I was about to quit programing as a whole

[@Fisterkoo]

@@technologycrazy It doesnt work in 2021 windows 10. :/ it doesnt register if its correct or incorrect

[@brevinpalmes3742]

@@Fisterkoo it does I just did it

[@dfgdfhfgjghjdtyu]

Im a self taught batch programmer and to see your videos explain everything i knew was amazing i think this is amazing for people who are new to batch and want to start with an easy coding language

[@Mizy12239]

Wow I'm learning from him 12 years later. Great Job!

[@pgbgroup]

Same Here!

[@sandratruax715]

I have been playing around with bat files for quite a while, but you are showing me lots of things I did not understand before. Thank you so much for taking the time to share you knowledge.

[@bigollie006]

I feel like anyone who has any solid understanding of basic programming can follow along perfectly. If you're too ignorant to follow along, go read some more, come back, and leave a positive "thank you for these videos" type of statement. I personally love these videos and appreciate sincerely the time and effort it took to put them together for people like me.

[@devilsmusic1327]

yeah! you literally don't even need to read a book. I started by copy and pasting simple programs into np and playing around with things and googling commands until I had a basic understanding of how batch works. do that and come back and you will get a more formal understanding and maybe learn something new. i know the for command was a new one for me

[@0xifer326]

9 years later, and you have helped me through every problem I've encountered...

[@arsgaming2532]

I just wanted to point out, after each pause, you can type >nul, so it looks nicer without the "Press any key to continue..." thing.

[@baba-ti2gb]

Nyc👌👌

[@BurnerAccount777]

cheers

[@Kiwifruit00]

thank you

[@LowKDR123]

thank you

[@michaelharvent7221]

hey man, just wanted to leave a quick "thank you" behind in the comments. I'm studying programming and these videos really help explain things that I didn't really understand in my lessons. Thank man!

[@VKjkd]

Bro, I've been able to freestyle 2 very helpful batch files using your tutorial series as the base guide - Great explanations, Many Thanks. Should cut down time at the office nicely.

[@jitunisu]

You are simple genius! You explain in very clear and easy demonstrate way.

[@barrelkiller101]

very cool series i hope you continue with it you are truly helping people around the world with it even though simple this is where all programmers start off with keep it up man will be watching the series to like and share your videos to people who want to learn about this

[@hassanyare9963]

bro thank you this tutorial playlist changed my IT skills i just don't know how to say thank you to you. love from Somalia

[@nebuchadnectarthe2nd688]

I am new to this, but you are easy to follow along with. Am I the only one that after finishing the video tried answering 'What do you want to do? : correct' haha. this is a funny sort of coding. thanks

[@The-Real-Skinny-Bob]

Dude your last video, I have been searching online calculator this whole time and there was a calculator right in windows the whole time I actually learned something.

[@TerrorByteTW]

I am making a highly complex batch OS. This really helped me because my variable system was VERY buggy. Now I don't have to worry about it! Thank you very much!

[@æ_guy]

how it is still going?

[@zLightc]

I learned from this series and now I made my own program which creates a random password to use if you can't come up with one tysm for that!

[@francislambert5189]

Loving this...really needed to know these batch programs...Peace:)

[@tdubbed_]

I want to know what's in the "iBooty-for-..." folder...

[@edithfelebrico9137]

You saw that too?

[@jay-hb7el]

bootloader thing for iphones and i saw it too

[@baddisneye9517]

Waffles

[@ohno3730]

"dads usb" hmmm.

[@rukna3775]

www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IBooty

[@alex-desroches]

man i cant believe no one teaches this. its never been easier to write to a file in any languages. Normally its much more complex. here all you do is >> myfile.txt ... omg this is nice

[@SteamsNightcore]

When giving the user options, especially when there's a lot of them, I find it's easier to use "if" commands. Example: @echo off echo [1] Create echo [2] Check echo. set /p PROGRAM= What do you want to do?: if %PROGRAM%==1 goto createpass if %PROGRAM%==2 goto checkpass :createpass cls echo (CODING HERE) :checkpass cls echo (CODING HERE)

[@videozz1079]

+Steams Nightcore™ nice

[@SteamsNightcore]

Allow me to revise... @echo off :main echo [1] Create echo [2] Check echo. set /p PROGRAM= What do you want to do?: if %PROGRAM%==1 goto createpass if %PROGRAM%==2 goto checkpass :nonvalid cls echo Please enter a valid option! pause>nul goto main :createpass cls echo (CODING HERE) :checkpass cls echo (CODING HERE)

[@SteamsNightcore]

No, anything inputted other than the options (1 and 2) will run the non valid loop. Also, just noticed... it would be a good idea to add "cls" in the line after ":main"

[@samuelborst3937]

Steams Nightcore™ ã

[@SuperKopond971]

Hello, I'm french and we don"t get many programming youtubeur, i subscribe to your channel and i just wanted to congrat's you for this video,I'm learning english and Programmation so i make 2 by 1 with you ;) Thanks man !

[@MrAuro]

If you use Notepad++ it shows the text format if you save it as a bat. It changes the color of some text if they are like if, else, etc.

[@pranoydutta5435]

same with VIM!

[@Tamara-ym7ui]

i am watching this in 2020 cus my teacher is unable to explain me how cmd works... I learned more in 30 min watching your videos than listening to him like for multiple days xD so thanks a lot even if this video was created long ago :)

[@robbielawsonguitar6446]

dude your amazing,thanks, ive learned so much from this series even in the first 3 episodes, thanks!

[@kromyth_old]

Wow. I found this 2012s videos very useful in 2021 👍

[@EvanSamano]

THIS TUTORIAL IS THE BEST TUTORIAL IN ALL THE LAND OF THE USA! Sorry for the caps, I am making a REALLY big project in batch and this solved a lot problems :)

[@TheClockmister]

What kind of project? I need some ideas :D

[@dragonkid928]

Yeah me too

[@dimenzio]

too, like a batch social network over Dropbox? who can help me developing that together? :3

[@TheClockmister]

A social network with batch? I don't think that's possible man.

[@dimenzio]

Poseidon it is with Dropbox

[@robertschippers4065]

in really like these tutorials, i can make bat files on my own now... when i was learning i even tried to improve these basic files using previous tutorials

[@kevinb4564]

This is very helpful, keep the good work up, I have to learn batch programing for my degree and this help as my professor is an ass :

[@Sharedlines]

this was made almost 9 years ago and it still helps, also if you see this, thanks.

[@Minimum3Dashers]

No way!, i was so stupid the entire time, thank you! now i can work on my RiskTools Update 2.

[@adyn315]

you know it’s old when the replies aren’t even in the reply section

[@StMichaelkarateclass]

I can't tell you how much help you are.

[@electroninja862]

I would Recomend that you get Notepad++ because it is easier to use, can be used to program in many different languages, has colors to help you know what each part of code is with each language and It is completely free.

[@Piks38]

nice mic upgrade! big fan of you re batch videos! -yoyo

[@951036]

I have found a better looking (in my opinon) way to do that show options thing in Batch. This I what that look like: @echo off echo What do you want to do? echo Option1 echo Option2 set /p options=[Enter a space here] pause>nul exit For those of you who don't know, pause does show a "Press any key to continue." but if you don't want that, just put a >nul next to it. This also works for things like timeout.

[@nacuesta]

Appreciate this tutorial big time!

[@951036]

I am also having trouble understanding the part in your script that said: For /f "Delims=" =%%a in (test.txt) do ( set TEXT=%%A ) Please just explain that a bit better

[@lurkerrekrul]

Better late than never... FOR creates a loop, although in this case, it only reads one item, so not really much of a loop. /f tells it that it's going to be reading data from a file. "Delims=" tells it to read the entire line by setting the 'deliminators' to nothing. Deliminators tell it where to stop reading data and the default deliminator is a space. So without that, it would stop reading the data if it encountered a space. This can be used with a more complex form of the command to read multiple items on a single line, separated by spaces. %%A basically works like a variable that will hold the data read from the file. It has some special properties that variables don't, but also some limitations compared to variables. It is REQUIRED to use this in a FOR loop rather than a regular variable, although you're free to use other letters. IN tells it that data from the file is going to go into %%A. (TEST.TXT) name of file to read data from. DO tells it to 'do' the commands that follow. In this particular instance, the SET command could have been placed directly after it on the same line, however using an open parenthesis '(' allows you to include multiple lines and have them all treated as one command. SET TEXT=%%A tells it to take the contents of %%A and put them in the variable TEXT. The close parenthesis tells it that that's the end of the commands that should be executed by the DO command. Before moving on. If there were multiple commands, or the FOR loop was reading multiple items from the file, all the commands between the parentheses would be executed each time the loop ran. Although trying to do much with variables inside that loop is a whole other story.

[@anubhavsharma1761]

@@lurkerrekrul You helped me a lot bro thanks.

[@lurkerrekrul]

@anubhav sharma - You're welcome. :) I'm still learning myself and often have to ask for help with more advanced stuff.

[@amelatrbusina8915]

Omg bro it is easy

[@sb_infi]

@@lurkerrekrul hello bro I have a question

[@squidgamelesgoooo]

so easy to understand with ur help

[@TheReal6ro]

Wicked awesome vid... Your very smart...I'm now getting into programming you know using hex and so on...

[@DecreeB]

WHOA! Now I know how to make a SAVABLE game! THANK YOU!

[@sSoKoSs]

you have to use the "cd C/...." command to go to that place first put "cd /?" in cmd to help you(without these "" ).

[@mohammadyasir8116]

wonderful explanation ! Thank you.

[@connwise]

Thanks for the pick me shout out!!!

[@kavonboucher6163]

Thank your so much i was stuck with a problem but now i know what to do :)

[@Scarylillebror]

Can you choose the destination for the .txt file? I made a login, so everytime my windows started my batch would make the txt file with date and time... BUT i don't want the txt file to be inside start folder. I just really want to how/if that's possible to choose your own destination.

[@ABMA79]

very useful lesson. thanks a lot man, I will be looking forward for more advance lessons my friend, keep it up

[@lurkerrekrul]

Personally, I prefer the CHOICE command for creating menus. That way the user only has to press a single key to choose an option. Although for some strange reason, MS omitted the CHOICE command from XP, then released it in a resource kit and then changed the syntax for Vista and beyond.

[@lisadowns3183]

thank you so much this video was extremely helpful

[@sichlo8159]

I think you should explain the set /f command and delims.(not too fast)

[@MattVariety]

Wow, I didn't know that learning a programming language could be so easy! I've already created a neat little program where you can enter a number and it will lead you to a certain "page" within the program. It's going along very well. Also, hate to be a bother, but would you care to consider picking me? I have these abstract-like videos, quite unique. Just a want. Thanks!

[@bitonic589]

Is this what you mean by "page"? @echo off cls echo 1 - HACK your school echo 2 - Shut down echo 3 - R.I.P PC set /p a= goto %a% :1 shutdown /i goto 4 :2 shutdown /f /p goto 4 :3 set /a b+=1 md RIP%b% goto 3 :4

[@ethanberkey6066]

At 7:35 how would i use Delims= to search a certain line of text? I wanted to make a batch program that saves a username to the first line of a text document and the a password to the second line of a text document, Which then i can check to login to a personal account...

[@josho.n.5181]

Here is the code: @echo off ::Initiate the variables here set user= set pass= setlocal enabledelayedexpansion ::Creates the username and password echo %user%>test.txt echo %pass%>>test.txt ::initiates the counter variable set /a counter=0 for /f "Delims=" %%a in (test.txt) do ( ::Adds 1 to the counter set /a counter=!counter!+1 ::If %counter% = 1, aka the first line of the document, then it will set usernamea ::equal to %user% if !counter!==1 set USERNAMEA=%%a ::If %counter% = 2, aka the second line of the document, then it will set ::passworda equal to %pass% if !counter!==2 set PASSWORDA=%%a ) ::Display your username and password echo username:%USERNAMEA% echo password:%PASSWORDA% pause

[@Xrball]

whenever i create a password, it doesnt change test.txt. when i open test.txt, all it says is "echo is off". help anyone?

[@tarunkolvi7201]

i am not able to get the expected output if string like "i am fine" is entered as a password and checked for. when checked, whether the password is entered right or wrong....i get the output as password is wrong. any fix for this ?

[@DeXzzZ27]

Is there an advance codes that will make your texts saved into a .doc(Microsoft Word) with Fonts style, size, and colors with certain positions. Is it possible? ..and add text or words in a .txt file that will keep the previous words.

[@FussyvideosYT]

thank you!! this is the best scripting video iv founded on youtube! thank you!!!

[@jacobf7409]

Cool 😄 thanks this series is helping me learn code

[@mcapp71]

How do you save a text document in a different location other than the location/folder of the batch file?

[@vortexeverything7617]

How do you make it where someone could set a preference then later on they could open the cmd file again and the preference is the same?

[@snvvbl]

set /a is used when you want the computer to take something mathematically. set /p is used when you want the player to choose what you want to say. Hope I helped :/

[@ahmaddaaboul4033]

yah u did :)

[@0xbitbybit]

I have the EXACT same code(checked it ten thousand times) yet when I goto check password, it exits immediately, i managed to print screen in time to see what the error was and it says "goto unexpected at this time". Any ideas?

[@aronmtchell3328]

every beginner programmer should learn this language then you can move on to other languages like js, java, python, ect.

[@giocogames]

how do I see how many characters are in the text file with the batch file? (like how many spaces and stuff)

[@technologycrazy]

YES! Very good point. I totally didn't think of that!

[@toressuarez]

I have a batch file that is suppose to help me convert a .class file to .dex, when i click on it, it just pop up for like 2 mili-seconds and vanish, i don't know if I am using it the right way or if i was suppose to apply any edit to the batch file.

[@truepvp5463]

Is there any way to extract a message from a txt file into a batch file bcs I've been working on a Messenger app and the only thing missing is, it showing in the batch not in a txt file like it's now, I even did a multiplayer on it so I can text with another computer in local host and host ip's

[@DeXzzZ27]

More Batch series! Yeah!

[@EnrisueJozardino]

Hi buddy !! and thank you for this tutorial. All i wanted to know is how to do it if the text file contains multiple lines and not only one. Thank you

[@hjaltello]

plz make more of these like make one about internet connections or about all the features in the net command sorry for my bad english

[@bigmancozmo]

5:20 When i test it, why is it closing right when i start it and tell it to create even when i have the pause? Edit: 6:01 wait nvm its working now

[@DCCXIII]

i am looking to create a batch file that will locate and convert all TIFFs in a folder and its sub-folders (most are multi-page tiff so action wizard in adobe does not work) and save the PDF as the same name as the TIFF in the same directory the tiff was in originally. Is this possible?

[@therealrgb2354]

what A 😀legend hope he comes back

[@metalmon34]

you could try using a timer like TIMEOUT /T (your time here) /NOBREAKS >nul

[@ABMA79]

Hello my friend, I think you just explained a very useful lesson. But I do have a question though How can you make for /f search for a specific word in a text file. in your example, it is searching for one word, and returns one value. Lets say we used >>, which means it appends new inserted values into the text file. How can the loop search for the input in the text file and make an accurate comparison. if you can upload a lesson with regard to my question, i will greatly appreciate my friend. Thanks a lot and I did learn a lot from your example.

[@sSoKoSs]

you know when i save the pass into the txt file it is come encrypted.I need to do somethink or not? Because i don't know if i want to use it (the .txt file) without to be encrypted(windows 7 just to know :) thx for the videos keep it up!!!).

[@SnevMC]

Can you make a master batch file that can open programs? Like if you type paint it would start mspaint

[@gravitowl]

how to read FULL text files, instead of just the last thing added? i want to show all passwords previously made but it just shows the last one that has been made!

[@anthonyc3941]

How do you make it search among a list of passwords in a multi-line text document rather than one password on a single line?

[@CouchSquirrel]

Continue this series PLEASE!!!

[@reggiehan977]

If I wanted to show a message that says "Incorrect command" when you set the variables(I think), what do I have to do? We can create password by typing command "create", and check by typing "check", and what if the user accidentally or intended to type other commands, etc.?

[@josho.n.5181]

Well you can simple add this: :start cls echo -create (create password) echo -check (check password) echo. set /p PROGRAM= What do you want to do?: ::This part right here checks if you have entered correct input values. If so, it will ::goto the input specified. if "%PROGRAM%" == "create" goto %PASSWORD% if "%PROGRAM%" == "check" goto %PASSWORD% ::How it's broken down: ::if "%PROGRAM%" == "create" goto %PASSWORD% ::Basically, if %PROGRAM% equals create, it will goto create. ::Another way is to do this: ::if "%PROGRAM%" == "create" goto create ::it does the same thing, because %PROGRAM% and create are the same thing. echo Incorrect Command. pause goto start

[@knowledgeanddocumentationm9074]

I got an "echo is off" in the text file while outputting password to text file. Why?

[@knowledgeanddocumentationm9074]

The solution is don't leave gap between the equal sign and the adjacent characters

[@olegmaz3969]

In 8:38 code for /f "Delims=" %%a in (test.txt) do ( set TEXT=%%a ) echo %TEXT% We get last row of test.txt. I have case that I need all rows of text file. How do it ? Thanks in advance.

[@TomGelmers]

but what if there are more 'accounts' registered in the text file? how do i use the delims then?

[@thegreenguy8837]

Got it working!!!(i am so happy i got it working!)

[@volomori6662]

shit dude just saw your video, just saw ur videos as a kid...thats sick

[@minhnguyenhainhat234]

i can't assign text=%%a in my program and i don't know why

[@ignazdvdev4981]

Everything went well until I tried executing the :check part. There it just fails Edit: Now I could finally make my program run succesfully. *Make sure the syntax has no errors such as unnecessary spaces in between the commands maybe (that was my problem).*

[@bharris7369]

after i type the correct password it closes it does not go to start or pause but i typed every thing you did pls help me

[@Justin_Truax]

Thank you! But maybe you can describe what "/p" and "/f'" mean?

[@Maaar10Avali]

How do you make it, so it creats a txt file :on desctop:? Mine just makes it in documents, and when trying to open (in batch) it can't find it... what did I do wrong?

[@iliqnspasov448]

what should i do if for example password (123) exist and i dont want to be able to create password 123 again ? because if i type create 123 and go back type create 123 again it doesnt say that this password already exist and is it the same if i want to add a name and passowrd to log in to a sertain information, hopefuly you will understand me because my english is bad :X

[@poop2961]

I just got a laptop for Christmas and I was really interested in creating things like this but I don't see exactly what this program is for

[@luckychicken3277]

+poop Training for batch files that make more sense then this one (I'm assuming you're talking about the thing he made, not notepad)

[@lethalwolfe179]

to create viruses

[@DerpProductionz]

Lethal Wolfe no it isn't :/

[@luckychicken3277]

Dezqn HD Batch can be made to make semi-damaging stuff, so it can kinda be used for viruses

[@DerpProductionz]

Lucky Chicken yes but he was saying he didn't know what this program was for

[@BlockBustersChannel]

How do you extract more than one piece of information at a time and use it to add things? could you make a program like that or could you give me the code for it?

[@ijustsaidthat_1460]

Is there a way to make the batch file search for the password without you having to type it in

[@ssttijijnn]

how to do with username and pass and you can do more accounts? (you already realy helped me but if you tell this i realy love you)

[@tiggax2000]

i made a starting sistem for a program using this help. thx realy helpt!

[@bobmanbook2395]

How do you use delims if you have more then one value in your text document?

[@josho.n.5181]

This only can read 2 lines from the document. Here is the code: @echo off ::Initiate the variables here set user= set pass= setlocal enabledelayedexpansion ::Creates the username and password echo %user%>test.txt echo %pass%>>test.txt ::initiates the counter variable set /a counter=0 for /f "Delims=" %%a in (test.txt) do ( ::Adds 1 to the counter set /a counter=!counter!+1 ::If %counter% = 1, aka the first line of the document, then it will set usernamea ::equal to %user% if !counter!==1 set USERNAMEA=%%a ::If %counter% = 2, aka the second line of the document, then it will set ::passworda equal to %pass% if !counter!==2 set PASSWORDA=%%a ) ::Display your username and password echo username:%USERNAMEA% echo password:%PASSWORDA% pause

[@galaxybot1182]

I want to create a file with > inside just using batch Let's say i write the following code @echo off echo test>(>here is a part of text) >(>here is not a part of text) test.txt it gives me error because there are two > But then how can i make a > inside of a text file Please help

[@pattabhimadhavaram7725]

@Technologycrazy wont work for passwords that have numbers in them. Do we have to use a different kind of "Delims=" token?

[@gregoryfenn1462]

It's not a tutorial about actually making or storing passwords for fuck's sake. A password manager would be more advanced and made in a more powerful language like C++ or Python or Ruby. And you NEVER EVER EVER save passwords on a computer, you save the hash of them, preferably salted hashes. For example: use a 128-bit random salt such as salt = "8a6b7ef97ab919a928efcd2028abd820", along with the SHA256 hash of your password-salted: SHA256(salt + "th1sisaRUBBISH passw0rd"). Only the OUTPUT of the hash function, and the value of the salt, are saved in the password file, not the value of the password itself.

[@sameerkadam4830]

after set /p PROGRAM=what do you want to do?: then goto %PROGRAM% so then it should again ask the question of program? why it is not asking?

[@spectrum6474]

for some reason after I use if %input%==yes start it says then closes immediately. what am I doing wrong!? D:

[@videozz1079]

can u tell me what "Delims=" %%a do?? if u tell me these two things it'll clear my Concepts