wmic

I used wmic to get the version of a EXE stored in a variable. It works fine when I execute it from CMD (that I ran as Admin) but when executed either in a .cmd or .bat files (even when ran as admin) the variable is not populated. This works directly in CMD: set "npver="&for /F "tokens=2delims==" %a in ('wmic datafile where "Name='c:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe'" get version /format:list') do set "npver=%a" When I created the .cmd file, I doubled the % signs. You forgot to echo the variable with the command echo %npver% With Command line : set "npver="&for /F "tokens=2delims==" %a in ('wmic

Using batch, trying to get output of the following command: wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename Thus, I'm simply doing the following: wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename >>"C:\out.log" Unfortunately, this is the output I'm getting: The output from WMIC is unicode, your "spaces" are nulls from the two bytes unicode characters in file. Try with wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename | find /v "" >>"C:\out.log" wmic has an output flag that you can use in place of redirect symbols that might work out better for you. wmic /output:"C:\out.log" logicaldisk

I've been struggling to get a specific output using WMIC in batch in order to build an automatic uninstall script. The issue I'm running across is that the uninstaller for the application I'm trying to remove is created under an auto-generated SSID on each system (e.g.: C:\ProgramData{07BFF8FA-C12F-46C7-8239-8EE83E21B5DA}\program-name\Uninstall.exe). Because of this, I can't build a static uninstall location based on the registry as the uninstaller string also is under the same SSID in the registry. I've tried a couple of different ways of pulling the uninstall info and the only one I've

I've been exploring various options, such as the /format flag, however it appears that sorting is only possible in XML or HTML output. I would like to sort within command prompt itself. It seems that even TaskList cannot do this (and I would prefer to use wmic since it seems to perform faster). An example of a command to run would be wmic process get name,processid,workingsetsize . Processes appear to be sorted by processid, but it would make much more sense (in my use case, at least) to sort by name or memory usage ( workingsetsize ). As requested, here's an example wmic process table output: