[PATCH v2 0/1] MR9007: wmic: Add a basic help option "/?".

[Louis Lenders (＠xe)]

Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45343

The installers from that bugreport use this (in Win7 mode) to check if wmic is present.
(The installer still fails after this patch as findstr.exe lacks
some support: "match_regexp character ranges (i.e. [abc], [^a-z]) are not supported")

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  v2: wmic: Add a basic help option "/?".

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9007

[PATCH v2 1/1] wmic: Add a basic help option "/?".

[Louis Lenders]

From: Louis Lenders

Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45343

The installers from that bugreport use this (in Win7 mode) to check if wmic is present.
(The installer still fails after this patch as findstr.exe lacks
some support: "match_regexp character ranges (i.e. [abc], [^a-z]) are not supported")

v2: Improve help message.
---
 programs/wmic/main.c  | 6 ++++++
 programs/wmic/wmic.h  | 1 +
 programs/wmic/wmic.rc | 1 +
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/programs/wmic/main.c b/programs/wmic/main.c
index f71c54e8071..9d1748ca753 100644
--- a/programs/wmic/main.c
+++ b/programs/wmic/main.c
@@ -354,6 +354,12 @@ static int process_args( int argc, WCHAR *argv[] )
     const WCHAR *class;
     int i;

+    if (!wcscmp( argv[0], L"/?" ))
+    {
+        output_error( STRING_HELP );
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     for (i = 0; i < argc && argv[i][0] == '/'; i++)
         WINE_FIXME( "switch %s not supported\n", debugstr_w(argv[i]) );

diff --git a/programs/wmic/wmic.h b/programs/wmic/wmic.h
index b5779bd6eb9..fff3bd969c8 100644
--- a/programs/wmic/wmic.h
+++ b/programs/wmic/wmic.h
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@
 #define STRING_INVALID_QUERY            103
 #define STRING_INVALID_PATH             104
 #define STRING_USAGE                    105
+#define STRING_HELP                     106
diff --git a/programs/wmic/wmic.rc b/programs/wmic/wmic.rc
index 80d76ac1447..431bbf6e474 100644
--- a/programs/wmic/wmic.rc
+++ b/programs/wmic/wmic.rc
@@ -29,4 +29,5 @@ STRINGTABLE
     STRING_INVALID_QUERY, "Error: Invalid query\n"
     STRING_INVALID_PATH, "Error: Invalid syntax for PATH\n"
     STRING_USAGE, "Supply a command\n"
+    STRING_HELP, "Example usage: wmic ALIAS get PROPERTY[,PROPERTY2,...]\n"
 }

[Louis Lenders (＠xe)]

On Fri Sep 19 14:15:30 2025 +0000, Louis Lenders wrote:
> changed this line in [version 2 of the diff](/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9007/diffs?diff_id=210722&start_sha=4c1a07cab3067080bc639b6f3283b45ad8666a14#5215423ef926bed91dea7782a33e637b9c4c1ddf_32_32)

I've changed it.

[PATCH v2 0/1] MR9007: wmic: Add a basic help option "/?". - approved

[Hans Leidekker (＠hans)]

This merge request was approved by Hans Leidekker.