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Taurophylax
Taurophylax

Reputation: 455

batch: ignore last line of an output

I have a pretty basic script that echos local administrator accounts. My goal is to get rid of all of the header/footer information.

So far I have:

FOR /F "skip=6" %%G IN ('net localgroup administrators')  DO echo %%G

Which echos:

Administrator
MyName
The

"The" being the first word in the footer: "The command completed successfully."

So I'd like to get rid of "The" but I understand that I may have to restructure the entire script, which is fine. I have tried saving to a variable %str% but you can't set multi-line variables. Also, using a txt file as a buffer is not an option.

Any input?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5523

Answers (1)

dbenham
dbenham

Reputation: 130819

I can think of two simple solutions:

FOR /F "skip=6" %%G IN ('net localgroup administrators')  DO if %%G neq The echo %%G

or 

FOR /F "skip=6" %%G IN ('net localgroup administrators ^| findstr /vb The')  DO echo %%G

I suppose one could argue a user name could be "The", in which case you can be more precise with the filter:

FOR /F "skip=6" %%G IN ('net localgroup administrators ^| findstr /vc:"The command completed successfully."')  DO echo %%G

Upvotes: 6

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