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Wai_Wai:
About editing BAT files
I created a BAT file for a program called FSUM (It is a program for checksum).

In my BAT file, it contains:
fsum -md5 -r *.* >md5_checksum.txt

The above command will copy the output to a txt file. However if there's an existing file with the same name already, it will overwrite it without prompt.

How to prompt if the program is going to overwrite a file? Does anyone know any command which can do so?

jonah:
Wai_Wai

Look at this link, it should give you some clues:

http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

You might be able to do something like this:
fsum -md5 -r *.* >md5_%time%.txt

Its been a long time since I've done anything with DOS batch files. There are certainly others here who have more recent experience in this topic. Please correct me if I'm not correct. :)

Wai_Wai:
Hi.
What does "%time%" in >md5_%time%.txt do?

Anyway, I tried it but the comptuter said "parameters are incorrect".

I read your suggested website before you told me, but in vain.

Wai_Wai:

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Look at this link, it should give you some clues:

http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

You might be able to do something like this:
fsum -md5 -r *.* >md5_%time%.txt

Its been a long time since I've done anything with DOS batch files. There are certainly others here who have more recent experience in this topic. Please correct me if I'm not correct. :)
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And since you said you don't use BAT for a long time, so did you find any other more powerful things to replace BAT?
If so, what are they and how good they are?

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