And yet the more I actually attempt to wrap my brain around some of this stuff, the more this ridic uber-advanced stuff is added to the list of stuff that I actually "get".
https://sites.google.com/site/dbenhamfiles/home/CharLib_bat.txt?attredirects=0
^ link to a .TXT that is a DOS batch file that does ... stuff.
via http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6953#p6953 (because I was having fun trying to add a LineFeed character to an environment variable in my own rather complex script, and ... well, I got sucked into this rabbit hole, thanks Google!)
"dbenham" is a frickin' GENIUS. Seriously. At least when it comes to rightfully earning the respect of the DOS/.BAT coding world.
https://sites.google.com/site/dbenhamfiles/home <-- The original cave text adventure there. IN A .BAT FILE.
Whoa, that takes me back!
These days it's all Powershell (in my world anyway)
And you're certainly lucky.
But sometimes you need to make something do an automated task and know it will work on any damn machine anywhere in your network.
And as a result, you start to "get it" when you read stuff like this...
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25225#p25225
"CharLib_bat.txt" still hurts my brain.
But it's surprisingly still download-able at the link above.
Also, wow 3.5 years ago was when I posted this. I don't want to think about what it means knowing how much time has passed and why I posted this... yikes.