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i probably should have called this post 'stupid batch file tricks' or 'how much time do you want to waste on batch files' as well. =P anyway, i needed to graph something else, and i was fiddling around with logparser. if you have ever fiddled, you have probably googled, and if you have ever googled for logparser, you probably have come across Ken Schaefer's blog post about graphing ping results. it's at http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2005/05/30/22.aspx if you haven't. go check it out. i will wait. it's quite short. wayyyy shorter than this. =P
anyway, i wanted to represent several test result series from...
net use * /d /y
the /y is undocumented as far as i can see. it provides a 'Y' when it asks if you're sure.
so i have this video camera and it records files to mod files. i dunno why. mod's are just like mpegs. you can just rename them and open them. i don't know why they aren't just saved as mpegs, but whatever. so i got tired of dropping out to dos and just renaming the files so i could review them. i could also i'm sure find a way to just register mod files with my computer but bah. i decided to just create a custom sendto item so i could just mass rename them. so if you want to rename...
i've received this question from many developers who either weren't sysadmins ever or just forgot. some, perhaps, are just lazy and don't want to look it up or remember it. it may be that others still just want to see if *i* remember. =P
the command line to view what nt groups you are in is, literally:
net user %username% /domain
include the % symbols and it will use the environment variable for your username.