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Parsing Dates in Batch Files & Regional Settings / Locale Determining day, month and year on the command line is surprisingly difficult if the solution is to work across locales, i.e. on international systems with different regional settings. Although we can use the variables %DATE% and %TIME% their contents is specific to the locale. If set to German, the date is displayed in the format dd.MM.yyyy, if set to English (United States), the date format is M/d/yyyy.
How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line Published by Helge Klein on 01/14/2010 \| 13 Comments \| 31,230 Views How to easily create a list of all programs and (MSI) packages installed on a system for later processing? That sounds like a simple task, and it is. Interestingly, a quick web search revealed primarily more complex solutions where a script is used to iterate through the uninstall information in the registry. That not only is far too complicated, but also inaccurate.

Parsing Dates in Batch Files & Regional Settings / Locale

Determining day, month and year on the command line is surprisingly difficult if the solution is to work across locales, i.e. on international systems with different regional settings. Although we can use the variables %DATE% and %TIME% their contents is specific to the locale. If set to German, the date is displayed in the format dd.MM.yyyy, if set to English (United States), the date format is M/d/yyyy.

How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line

Published by Helge Klein on 01/14/2010 | 13 Comments | 31,230 Views

How to easily create a list of all programs and (MSI) packages installed on a system for later processing? That sounds like a simple task, and it is. Interestingly, a quick web search revealed primarily more complex solutions where a script is used to iterate through the uninstall information in the registry. That not only is far too complicated, but also inaccurate.


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