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  Asked: Mar 7 2008   4:53 AM GMT
  Asked by: ELtangaZ

.Bat that extracts an specific regsitry key (SID) to a .txt or .reg file


Batch files, SID, Registry

Hello, how can i extract only the exact SID key from the registry with a .bat like this:

ExtractSID.bat:
REG QUERY HKU |Findstr /R "DEFAULT S-1-5-[0-9]*-[0-9-]*$" >> SID.txt

With result on file SID.txt:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-57989841-484763869-1957994488-1003

What i need on SID.txt:
S-1-5-21-57989841-484763869-1957994488-1003

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Last Answered: Mar 7 2008  8:19 AM GMT  by Mrdenny




You may want to look into using the FOR command to process the SID.txt file line by line looking for the line which doesn't end in .DEFAULT.

Something like (this isn't tested):
FOR /F "delims=\ skip=1 tokens1,2" %%a in (SID.txt) do echo %%b > SID.txt
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TomWahl  |   Mar 7 2008  4:06PM GMT

Add a line that filters using the FIND command to exclude lines with a specific string in them.

type SID.txt | find /v /i “default” >ONLY_SID.txt

The /v tells FIND to ignore the string “default” and the /i makes it case insensitive.

 

TQuinnelly  |   Mar 7 2008  11:32PM GMT

Just to add to Mrdenny’s answer…check out this site for some great command line reference.