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Windows 32/64 bit Console Mode - Some tiny "batch" programs for Windows CMD (32 bit, some 64 bit).

Installation recommendation: Extract ZIP files to a program directory, and copy the executable to a directory, that the command processor will find through the PATH variable. To assign such a folder for console tools see Control Panel: System / Advanced / Environment Variables.
CMD Tools for unattended mode
Delete or move files by age (days), options: include subdirectories, selection by date tag (created, last written, accessed), and more.. Version 2.3 28 Oct 2008
Compare time&date stamps of two files; compare with today-n (days), now-n (minutes). Version 2.2 23 Jan 2007
CSV list sort. ANSI/Unicode, 32/64 bit; Version 1.22 17 Mar 2013
Modify (and read from) Windows type INI files. Version 1.6 17 Jun 2009
Write Clipboard text to file, or read from file. Options: append to existing text, OEM/ANSI conversion. Version 2.0 17 Oct 2010
Wait (number of seconds), cancel by (key), message text. Version 1.01 15 Mar 2011
Set console color for succeeding output, display strings (echo) with colors;
32/64 bit; version 1.0
18 Nov 2012
Brings the console window to the foreground, when a batch running in the background or minimized has finished. Version 1.1 22 Jan 2010
CMD Tools with dialog window
Selection window to select an item (line) from a text file and pass it to the batch process. Various options, menu mode; 32/64 bit; version 2.20 13 Feb 2013
Folder selection window (directory tree) for use in batch files (CD and SET commands); Version 1.61 25 Mar 2011
"Open File" and "Save as" dialog windows make user selected file(s) available in a batch process; Version 1.4 13 Jan 2013
Message box with user defined buttons; 32/64 bit; version 1.10, 18 Nov 2012
Simple Yes/No/OK/Cancel prompt boxes with errorlevel response; Version 2.2 04 Jan 2009
String input window with options; 32/64 bit; version 1.28 16 Apr 2013
Busy indicator for time consuming batch processes, with count or marquee style; 32/64 bit; version 1.02 18 Nov 2012
PureBasic source available (download links in txt files)