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OS: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Using the Windows command line, I can see the current user's logon time using the quser command. This results in more output than I desire, so I'm hoping to use for skip and tokens to get only the logon time and date.

As an example 

c:\quser.exe
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USERNAME         SESSIONNAME     ID    STATE      IDLE TIME      LOGON TIME
GenericUser      console         1     Active     1:22           03/11/2015 1:45 PM

Using for, I can whittle this down, but it's taking the space between the date and time as a delimiter and therefore only giving me the date:

c:\for /f "skip=1 tokens=6" %a in ('quser') do echo %a
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03/11/2015

Note that the output is missing the "1:45 PM". Of note, I can't specify multiple tokens because there are only 6 headers, so I can't get a 7th token from the second line. How can I modify this to collect the time as well as the date?

*Don't worry about calculating the datediff, as I'll be handling that in VBScript once I can properly collect it.

Thanks in advance, Beems

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First, you can get 7th token from second line:
for /f "skip=1 tokens=7" %a in ('quser') do @echo %a produces 1:45
but you may also use a * to get everything to the end of line:
for /f "skip=1 tokens=5*" %a in ('quser') do @echo %b produces: 03/11/2015 1:45 PM
which I think is what you're after.

From help for:

If the last character in the tokens= string is an asterisk, then an additional variable is allocated and receives the remaining text on the line after the last token parsed.

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  • Thanks, I tried using the token with an asterisk per a link I found, but it looks like my big problem was I did @echo %a instead of @echo %b. do you know how to explain that difference to me? Thanks! Beems. Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 21:09
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    @Beems for variables are implicitly created by cmd, starting from first you specify, so in this case %a refers to token 5 (which is last token before what interests you) and %b to rest of the line (minus any leading spaces) Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 21:38

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