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I have scripts which has many DOS copy / xcopy / move statements.  I do not want to code if %ERRORLEVEL% after each statement which is completely inefficient, anyone have thoughts for the best way in handling this? 

copy statement 1
call errorhandler
copy statement 2
call errorhandler
copy statement 3
....
if errorfile size greater than zero, email error
:end

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the errorhandler, it would be best if it can CHECK for the errorlevel from the copy | xcopy | move,
if errorlevel equal zero:  return to caller
if errorlevel greater than zero:
   write to some errorfile
   return to caller to EXECUTE next statement....

I would think that as soon as I issue a call statement, the errorlevel would change.  Any ideas? Quote from: et_phonehome_2 on November 20, 2011, 09:02:48 AM

I do not want to code if %ERRORLEVEL% after each statement which is completely inefficient

I'm used to using the PL SQL if-then-else CONCEPT, so this is really frustrating me.  I've found some examples, but evidently I'm doing something wrong, because when I add my if statement to the code, the file just bombs out and can't even capture what the error is.  Anyway, can someone show me a good example of an If statement, comparing two variables?

THANK you.
Jeanette Code: [Select]if %var1%==%var2% (
  echo Match
) else (
  echo No match
)
Use this when comparing two string variables to see if they match (Note: That is two equal signs.) As far as the structure goes, the "THEN" in what you are used to is implied after the logic test, making it a simple IF-ELSE structure, or even just an IF statement if nothing needs to happen if the logic test returns a "no" value. As I learned earlier today, watch out for quotation marks within the strings, as if there is only one, it can cause the IF construct to not WORK.

If you are comparing numerical values, you can use different compare operations such as equ, neq, gtr, lss, geq, leq; equal, not equal, greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to; respectively. Also, be sure that your parenthesis (if used) are correctly placed. The open parenthesis must start on the same line as either the IF or the ELSE commands, and the ELSE must be on the same line as the close parenthesis from the IF statement.Raven  .  .  .  thank you very much.  I will TRY that.  All the samples I found didn't use the 'else'.  Good to know that I can.

Thanks again.

First let me appologise if this has been covered somewhere. i did look, but its hard to find something when you dont know the words you need

ok when you install games and programs in windows, it asks you to choose an installation location.

Is there a way to put into a batch file code that will seek the location of the folders you wish to modify.

in most instances the FOLDER i seek would normally reside in either C:\Games\folder or C:\Program Files\Folder.

based on my need, this would be run on several OS's(mainly XP/Vista/7), but hopefully apart from any syntax issues, it should be a simple batch that is able to run on all.

If it is not possible to program the batch to seek the location, is it possible to enable the user to manually enter it through the cmd box?

I really hope you guys can help You seem to be wanting the use of the dir command if you are just looking for locations.

dir /s /b "*somegame*"

That will search for all instances of "somegame" in the directory the batch is run under (which means if you "cd.." until you get to just the drive, you will search the entire drive.) Most times, where you run your batch will not be more than 10 folders deep in the file structure, however you can add more onto the below if you think you need to. Put this before the dir to search the entire structure:

cd..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\

If you are just wanting to search in the specified folders (Games and Program Files) then change the cd command to cd c:\games or cd "c:\Program Files"

Of course all of this just outputs the full file path of the location of those files. When you say Quote

Is there a way to put into a batch file code that will seek the location of the folders you wish to modify.

Most times, where you run your batch will not be more than 10 folders deep in the file structure, however you can add more onto the below if you think you need to. Put this before the dir to search the entire structure:
cd..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\

Or just use \ to specify the root directory.

"give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life"

Yeah, but that's pretty close to, "The best way to teach a man to swim is to throw him in the water. The success rate is 100% for those who survive." 

I just finished my epic program, now I need it to run in the background.
I compiled it with BAT To Exe Converter and set it to invisible, but when I try to run it, i get the following error:
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Does anybody know why this is happening and how to fix it?
Which OS do you have?
Some folders belong to other users or are somehow restricted to you. How this works depends on the OS and the SECURITY policy on you computer. In a BUSINESS environment the policy might have been set by SOMEBODY else.

This is Windows XP. I just use it at home, and I have administrator rights.
Here's the top of the error box (it's a popup):
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\3E2.tmp\run.bat
By the way, my batch works on its own, but the converted format gives the error.bat2exe only works on plain DOS batch files. If you use long file names or any NT command-line extensions than it won't work.Try this one instead.
http://download.cnet.com/Bat-To-Exe-Converter/3000-2069_4-10555897.htmlIt works like a CHARM, but I just tried it on a different Windows 7 computer, so I'm not 100% sure it'll still work (the new Bat to Exe looks just like the one I was using!). I'll try it on the XP on Saturday.

EDIT: Holy crap, I cannot get it to stop. I've ended the run.bat process in Task Manager, but it keeps running! D:Try posting the revised code so we can determine what it's doing and why,,,Maybe at the end of your code you could use the taskkill command on conhost.exe.

Code: [Select]for /f "delims=" %%A in (List.txt) do (
  sc %%A stop [BITS]
  sc %%A config [BITS] obj=TeeCee DisplayName=%user% Password=%pass%
  sc %%A start [BITS]
  sc %%A stop [BITS]
  sc %%A config [BITS] obj=TeeCee DisplayName=%user% Password=%pass%
  sc %%A start [BITS]
  ...lather, rinse, repeat...
)

Hello all,

This is my first time posting here. I have been googling this non-stop and I can't seem to find anything to make a batch file do what I want it to do, so I figured i'd ask you gentlemen.

My goal is to (through a batch file) open Microsoft Outlook's Global Address List preferably for a specific user.

Right now all that I have is start outlook.exe, which opens outlook to the main screen.

Inside outlook there is a search bar ALONG the top, if I could get this batch program to insert a pre-defined username into that box and then press enter- that would do EXACTLY what I need it to do.

Does anyone KNOW if this is possible via batch? Or if not that way, is there any other way to achieve my goal?

Thank you all in advance for any help.
A MUCH better way to do this would be through a VBscript. I'll try to work one up.Here is the VBscript for this. I am not a VBscripter by any definition of the term, but I know enough to get by. There may be some others on this board who can clean this script up, but it gets the job done that you are looking to get done. Type this out in notepad and save it as "VBOutlook.vbs" (or something similar, but with the .vbs extension.)

Code: [Select]On Error Resume Next
dim WshShell,oArgs

set oArgs=wscript.Arguments

sName=oArgs(0)

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

rc=WshShell.Run("cmd", 2, FALSE)
Wscript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.AppActivate(cmd.exe)
WshShell.SendKeys CHR(34) & "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\outlook.exe" & CHR(34) & VBCRLF
WshShell.AppActivate(cmd.exe)
WshShell.SendKeys "exit" & VBCRLF
Wscript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.AppActivate(outlook.exe)
Wscript.Sleep 10000
WshShell.SendKeys "+^b"
Wscript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.SendKeys sName

set WshShell=Nothing
set oArgs=Nothing

Open the cmd prompt to the location of the script and type

Code: [Select]cscript VBOutlook.vbs Name

The sleeps are delays in milliseconds. I put in some LENGTHY delays because I know sometimes outlook doesn't like to open fast for me. You can adjust these numbers to suit your needs.Thanks for the help. I guess it just isn't possible from batch then, maybe I can have my batch script call this vbs. If I could make it transition smoothly this might work. Thank you very much for the script  , I will use this as a launching point to figure out if I can make this work or not.

I want to COPY the file from subfolder C  (Folder--->subfolder A----> subfolder B------>subfolder C) and move the same file to a new folder.
Kindly assist me. Thanks in advanceTry using the copy command.

Code: [Select]copy "c:\folder\a\b\c\file.doc" "c:\newlocation\"
Hi Raven,
Thanks for your reply.

I think i have not explained the issue properly.

I need to copy *.txt from set of folders->subfolders->subfolders to a specific path.

i.e
C:\>Dir *.txt/s

I want to copy above out put files to a particular path.

should be similar to that of below command.
copy dir *.txt/s d:\text
But this will THROW error.
Hope i have explained clearly

thanks in advance
Jas
 Then try:

Code: [Select]xcopy "c:\folder\a\b\c\*.txt" "c:\newlocation\"

You may need to add some switches if you are needing additional THINGS, like subdirectories created and such. I would at least throw a /c in there so that the entire command completes despite errors which you can then review later. Try typing xcopy /? at the cmd prompt to see a full list of the switches available. If you are looking for everything in the subfolder, just endquote after the folder name: eg. "c:\folder\a\b\c" Quote

I need to copy *.txt from set of folders->subfolders->subfolders to a specific path.

i.e
C:\>Dir *.txt/s

The Poll is coming along nicely...

just use xcopy if more than one file ie: xcopy c:\folder\folder\folder x:\destination
 oh and not sure but file types need{ *.*.whatever} to work

Hi.  I have a program where the user specifies a game directory and I create a bat file to launch the game.  Part of the bat file is switching to their directory.  I'm having an issue when people have foreign characters in their directory.  For example, someone from Brazil causes this command in their bat file:

Code: [Select]C:
cd "C:\Sérgio\Games"

Now, when I setup that same directory on my system, it WORKS fine.  But, I'm from USA.  However, on his, it doesn't work, and I suspect it's because he's USING a different language Windows (Portuguese). 

So, my QUESTION is, how can I deal with ISSUES like this?  My program simply cd's to their game directory in the batch file.  This is a big problem because I suspect many foreign users may have these characters in their path and I need to be ABLE to switch to this directory in order for things to work correctly.
You could try setting the console codepage to one with accented characters, e.g. 1252

Code: [Select]chcp 1252
I'll try that.  I'm starting to think it might be a Unicode thing since he's from Brazil and I'm from USA.  My program doesn't use Unicode.
*censored*, you were right.  Thanks!

Hello folks, i want a bat file to remove every thing from the %temp% directory and my code is Code: [Select]del /q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.* but this bat file only removes the files and not the folders as ccleaner does.
So i am asking if anyone knows of a better bat files that could remove the folder as well.

Thank you, hoping for a suitable solution:Try using this:

Code: [Select]rd /s /q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp"

You may need to add this to ensure you don't have system issues.

Code: [Select]md "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp"

BTW, this isn't working on my system because there are processes still running that are connected to files within the Temp directory. You may need to taskkill some stuff before the whole thing will work.

Personally, I think they should just bring back deltree and we'll call it a day.  Code: [Select]del /q /s "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*

There is no reason to delete the temp folder itself. And using that path specification is specific to Windows XP... why not use:

Code: [Select]del /q /s "%temp%\*.*"

This is more of a suggestion than an answer to your question, but anyway. It's so much nicer to just make a RAM disk and then re-route all your temp files to the RAM disk so whenever you reboot, then temp is automatically lost because the RAM is cleared. If you're going to delete the temp anyway, then why even store it on the hdd? It's just going to get fragged faster and bloated with crap. I think this should be built into future versions of Windows. BC: I know you're going to say why I am wrong. Go ahead.

Anyway, if you're interested, I can provide you with more instructions on how to do this. Quote from: Linux711 on November 15, 2011, 10:49:03 AM

BC: I know you're going to say why I am wrong. Go ahead.

Main problem would be rerouting the temp files to the RAM disk, since %TEMP% is a per-user variable.

Try using this:

Code: [Select]rd /s /q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp"
BTW, this isn't working on my system because there are processes still running that are connected to files within the Temp directory. You may need to taskkill some stuff before the whole thing will work.

by the way rd is the remove directory isn't it:then how come it removes the file as well .

Any suggestion i have to be better aware next time when i thank someone.
Little help here.

Little help here.

echo off
TITLE ^>^>Temp Cleaner^<^<
start %cdrom%\CleanIt\sizeold %temp%
start /D%temp% /max .
rem start /D%temp% .
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\CHOICE /T:N,3
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\taskkill /im sizeold.exe
attrib -r -s %temp%\*.* /s
del %temp% /f /s /q
rmdir %temp% /s /q
del "%userprofile%\Recent" /q
start %cdrom%\CleanIt\sizenew %temp%
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\CHOICE /T:N,3
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\taskkill /im sizenew.exe
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\CHOICE /T:N,1
start %cdrom%\CleanIt\tempclose.exe
start %cdrom%\CleanIt\AllDone %temp%
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\CHOICE /T:N,3
call %cdrom%\CleanIt\taskkill /im AllDone.exe
exit

Hey, I compiled my batch file into an exe and it does not work. When I run it, it just says "Press any key to continue. . ." (pause).
Here is the code:
Code: [SELECT]ECHO OFF
SET BINDIR=%~dp0
CD /D "%BINDIR%"
"%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xincgc -Xmx1G -jar Minecraft_Server.jar
PAUSEI'm using Windows 7 Home Premium if that makes any difference.
I have the bat to exe compiler from here: http://www.f2ko.de/programs.php?lang=en (not the online version)
-NathansswellNever mind, no help is needed. I just changed the directory from %programfiles% to C:\Program Files\ and took out all of the BINDIR stuff. Quote from: Nathansswell on December 03, 2011, 05:51:29 PM

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium if that makes any difference.
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It would if it is 32 bit or 64 bit.  With a 64 bit OS, java is installed in the the Program Files (x86) folder.

With a 64 bit OS, java is installed in the the Program Files (x86) folder.

When the resulting .exe file is run, it extracts the original batch to a folder somewhere and runs it, so it is quite possible that %0 expands to something you don't expect.

No need for GNU echo or other 3rd party apps.

Code: [Select]echo off
REM You need this
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

REM How to print over and over again on the same line

REM      This is a trick to get an ASCII 13 character
REM      (CR - Carriage Return) into a variable
for /F %%a in ('copy /Z "%0" nul') DO set "CR=%%a"

REM This is a demo that repeatedly echoes the time in the same place
REM Stop with CTRL + C
:loop

  REM <nul set /p "=xxx yyy zzz" is a trick to print xxx yyy zzz without a new line
  REM and echoing !CR! returns the cursor to the start of the line
  REM Must use the ! delayed expansion format for !CR!
  <nul set /p "=The time now is is %time%!CR!"

  REM make a delay
  ping -n 1 127.0.0.1 > nul

goto loop

It didn't perform in XP, the output was displayed as one continuous line indicating that both CR and LF were suppressed.  Any words of wisdom?

This worked, a tad slow probably due to the Cls repeats but gets there.  Same Ctrl+C to exit:

Code: [Select]echo off

:loop
  cls
 
  <nul set /p ="The time now is %time%"

  ping -n 1 127.0.0.1 > nul

goto loop


Quote from: Dusty on December 01, 2011, 07:26:59 PM

It didn't perform in XP, the output was displayed as one continuous line indicating that both CR and LF were suppressed.  Any words of wisdom?

This worked, a tad slow probably due to the Cls repeats but gets there.  Same Ctrl+C to exit:

Code: [Select]echo off

:loop
  cls
 
  <nul set /p ="The time now is %time%"

  ping -n 1 127.0.0.1 > nul

goto loop

I have run the same code that I posted above, in Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) and it works equally well in both.

I am working on a way of actually embedding the jscript into the batch so it doesn't need to create and kill a separate temp vbs file and therefore could be run on a non-writeable medium.

Hi
I am new to IT.
I have a batch file named myfile.bat placed at D:\myfolder1\

I WANT to know batch script which can identify the directory from which this batch file is currently executing even if the file has been moved to a new location.

is it possible? if yes then how? The parameter %~dp0 contains the batch script's DRIVE and path


Quote from: khurram Ilyas on December 02, 2011, 10:24:05 PM

Hi
I am new to IT.
I have a batch file named myfile.bat placed at D:\myfolder1\

I want to know batch script which can identify the directory from which this batch file is currently executing even if the file has been moved to a new location.

is it possible? if yes then how?

Fred, that doesn't actually answer the question which was asked: how can a batch file know its own directory?

What happens when myfile.bat is stored in more than one directory?

I have a batch file named myfile.bat placed at D:\myfolder1\

I want to know batch script which can identify the directory from which this batch file is currently executing even if the file has been moved to a new location.

The parameter %~dp0 contains the batch script's drive and path

the below code is working to move File.txt from Input folder to OutPut.

echo off
chdir c:\InPut
dir /B > File.txt
move File.txt c:OutPut
PAUSE

But when i try to move that to desktop, its telling error as
"the syntax of the command is incorrect".like below

echo off
chdir c:\InPut
dir /B > File.txt
move File.txt %userprofile%\Desktop\
pause
Have you checked the value of the %userprofile% variable? It probably CONTAINS space(s) which require you to use quotes.

Code: [Select]echo off
chdir c:\InPut
dir /B > File.txt
move File.txt "%userprofile%\Desktop"
pause

 If using Windows XP, it definitely contains SPACES, as it contains "Documents and Settings"Thanks Sidewinder - I made the same rookie mistake.
ANYHOW, the OP has cancelled his or account...
her... QUOTE from: patio on December 02, 2011, 12:03:12 PM

her...

I am trying to do something I think is simple however I am having difficulty. I am trying to create a simple smpp application to send messages that will read the Numbers as well as text from a file as a variable. I can do one or the other but have been unable to do both at the same time.
This will send to the list of phone numbers in the list1.txt file

echo off
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%I in (C:\Users\Clay\Desktop\batch\list1.txt) do call :smppclient %%I goto :eof

:smppclient

echo %TIME% >> bulk.txt
smppclient -u username -p password -a ipaddress/port -s 1 -T "batch file test" -O Alerts -D %1  >> bulk.txt
:: DONE



The above will read the numbers from the  text file called list1.txt and send the text batch file test to each number.

What I want to do is one step FUTHER and make the text "batch file test" a variable and put it in a seperate text file.
Any help is appreciated and or samples / examples.


Clay
[email protected]
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%I in (C:\Users\Clay\Desktop\batch\list1.txt) do call :smppclient %%I goto :eof

Why is that there?

also, pls show at least part of list1.txt

Quote from: Zev on December 15, 2011, 02:04:00 PM

What I want to do is one step futher and make the text "batch file test" a variable and put it in a seperate text file.

Did he just delete his account.  Man that ticks me off.  Try and help someone and they just give up.  So all the time that you put in to helping them is just wasted.

Best thing to do is just go pick up your favorite violent game and kill something. That always helps me feel better and is a great way to relieve frustrations. 

hey guys new here, i wanted to pick your brains as im struggling to find an answer to what im looking for!

basically IVE got some software that my dad had wrote by a programmer it ships with hardware he sells, (vehicle diagnostics etc) im editting his installer that runs from a usb key which also acts as a security dongle so it has to be by dongle and i cant SWITCH to CD or DVD , it uses a batch file which i will eventually convert into a .exe as long as the code all works

the batch file works great, it all installs fine and goes thru spot on, the only thing i cant get to grips with is i would like to delete some driver files from the usb once it has installed, this is so people who try to steal the software will be missing crucial drivers (long story but go with me on this one for now!) my problem is when you put in a usb key, its normally a different drive letter everytime, so i cant link to a static drive letter to delete from  ie; C:/ D:/ etc etc, ive tried using CD\ (to go to top directory) and then DEL for delete but i cant seem to get it to work, im not overly experienced with ms dos, but ive coded in other languages so i understand the fundamentals just not the syntax,

heres what i have:

ECHO Y
CD\
del folder/file1.dll
del folder/file2.dll
del folder/file3.dll
del folder/file4.dll

i know its probably rubbish but hey ive tried for days on this before asking for help! thanks

SteveDo you care how long it is? If not, you could set up a bunch of if statements to search for a specific file on the drive then set the drive. A lot of this:

Code: [Select]if exist a:\folder\file1.dll set drv=a
if exist b:\folder\file1.dll set drv=b
etc...

Then you can do

Code: [Select]del %drv%\folder\file1.dll
etc.

Hope this helps. Let us know if not.
The OP had posted the same question in the Batch Programs Thread and I already answered it more fully, but in essence:

In a batch script %~d0 will expand to the drive letter of the drive that the script is on, so %~d0:\ is the root directory of that drive. You know the rest of the path to the files you want to delete so your commands will be something like this

Code: [Select]del "%~d0:\folder\file1.dll"
The quotes aren't essential if the whole path + filename does not contain any spaces but they don't do any harm. By the way the character after the percent sign is a ZERO.

Quote from: Salmon Trout on December 01, 2011, 01:21:26 PM

The OP had posted the same question in the Batch Programs Thread and I already answered it more fully, but in essence:

In a batch script %~d0 will expand to the drive letter of the drive that the script is on, so %~d0:\ is the root directory of that drive. You know the rest of the path to the files you want to delete so your commands will be something like this

Code: [Select]del "%~d0:\folder\file1.dll"
The quotes aren't essential if the whole path + filename does not contain any spaces but they don't do any harm. By the way the character after the percent sign is a ZERO.

do i still use CD\ or is that now redundant as %~d effectively does the same thing?

is it meant to have a double colon?

So the script should look like this

Code: [Select]del %~d0\folder\file1.dll
del %~d0\folder\file2.dll
del %~d0\folder\file3.dll
del %~d0\folder\file4.dll

\folder\file1.dll

Is there a way I could stop writing echo so many times but NOT in a continuous line?

What I mean is how could I do this

Code: [SELECT]echo Hi
echo other
echo stuff
echo here

but without writing echo so many times.

THANKS in advance!CTRL C
CTRL V ? ?I would still be writing a whole bunch of echos. The thing I'm trying to fix is not writing echo itself so many times.You could put your text into a file then TYPE it - as long as all the text is needed to appear together
So you don't like writing echo?  Join the madhouse!

Try this:

Code: [Select]set fred=echo

%fred% Hi
%fred% other
%fred% stuff
%fred% here
Quote

Is there a way I could stop writing echo so many times but NOT in a continuous line?

So you don't like writing echo?  Join the madhouse!

Try this:

Code: [Select]set fred=echo

%fred% Hi
%fred% other
%fred% stuff
%fred% here

if you were brought up on BASIC you could do this to make yourself feel at home

Would that be IBM Basic assembly language for system 360?

Win XP Home 32 bit SP.3+ Cmd.exe

The following script returns Pi with 14 decimal places.  Is it possible to select the number of decimal places returned by Eval please?

Code: [Select]echo off
cls
setlocal 
echo wscript.echo eval(wscript.arguments(0))>%temp%\eval.vbs

set a=22
set b=7

set calc=%a%/%b%
call :calculate
set Pi=%result%

echo %Pi%

del %temp%\eval.vbs

exit /b

:calculate
for /f %%1 in ('cscript //nologo %temp%\eval.vbs "%calc%"') do (
    set result=%%1
)
Why?
Is this homework?
If you need a short  pi, just use a value you want as a global constant.
Of course, it will not be as accurate.

Pi to 12 decimal places is 3.141592653589Evaluate the expression

Code: [Select]Atn(1)*4
(instead of 22/7)Sorry, I didn't mean to ask how to calculate Pi, my question is Is it possible to select the number of decimal places returned by Eval please?     This holds good regardless what the values evaluated are, can Eval return a selected number of decimal places?

I'd like to use Eval when calculating dollar amounts.

Thanks.You are concerned with the visual output, - right?

Eval is common to several script things. Implementations vary. But yes, you can specify how many decimals to use. Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eval
The above article is a broad coverage. But it has the vital details.
Here is is the catch, you may have to provide some way for Eval to do what you want it to do. So you might want to use some other method to insure that your output is in a FIXED decimal format.
If you are lazy, use something that defines the output format.

What I want to say is that having two significant decimals is not the same as forcing two decimals in the visual output.
Example:
3.158 could be shown as 3.16
3.14 could be shown as 3.14
3.10 could be shown as 3.1   oops!!
you want a fixed decimal output, like currency, -Right?

Petroutsos writes, "The topic of PRINTING with Visual BASIC is a non-trivial topic...
Mastering Visual Basic .NET [Paperback]
Evangelos Petroutsos (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Visual-Basic-Evangelos-Petroutsos/dp/0782128777

But don't buy the book. Somebody will give you a clear answer.Call me crazy but I bet you can ROUND any number to the length of the decimal you want.1.

Quote

The following script returns Pi with 14 decimal places.

Petroutsos writes, "The topic of printing with Visual Basic is a non-trivial topic...
Mastering Visual Basic .NET [Paperback]

Another option for you as well.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch>for /f %A in ('cscript //nologo eval.vbs "FormatNumber(22/7,9)"') do echo %A
3.142857143

Does not work for me.

Hi All,

I am new to creating batch file and need help with a basic batch file CREATION.  I guess it can be achieved in 2-3 lines.

I have CREATED a shortcut of the DUN object on my desktop (using a windows 7 machine) and am able to launch the DUN object with the following command
rasdial.exe C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\MyISP.lnk

What I want is a pause of 25 seconds before i launch the VPN program from my laptop.  Can someone please help with the pause and launching of the vpn program command line.

Thanks in advance.

Code: [Select]start "" "c:\path to folder\rasdial.exe" C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\MyISP.lnk
timeout /T 25 > nul
start "" "c:\path to folder\somevpnclient.exe"Thanks for the quick help/ response.  My VPN i sloading perfectly after the pause, but unfortunately My DUN is not launching/ dialing/ connecting automatically.  I have now moved the DUN short link on c:\MyISP.lnk.  Can you please suggest? Thanks in advance.

start "" "c:\path to folder\rasdial.exe" C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\MyISP.lnk
timeout /T 25 > nul
start "" "c:\path to folder\somevpnclient.exe"Please post the exact code you are using in the batch file.  Most of us here are not omniscient.I have TESTED the VPN code and it worked fine.  So i was just testing the following code to start the DUN object with the following code.

start "" rasdial.exe "C:\MyISP.lnk"

ThanksYou don't need to specify rasdial.  Rasdial does take command line options but you already have that all specified in your Shortcut Link.

Just use the Shortcut link
Code: [Select]start "" "C:\MyISP.lnk"
If you have a PHONE book entry for your connection you could then use the RASDIAL command as well.
Code: [Select]rasdial "office 2"
If you wanted to do it completely from scratch you could just do
rasdial username password /phone:9995551234
Code: [Select]C:\Documents and Settings\Squash\Desktop>rasdial /?
USAGE:
        rasdial entryname [username [password|*]] [/DOMAIN:domain]
                [/PHONE:phonenumber] [/CALLBACK:callbacknumber]
                [/PHONEBOOK:phonebookfile] [/PREFIXSUFFIX]

        rasdial [entryname] /DISCONNECT

        rasdial

I'm making a Register Program and I was wondering if anyone had code to Encode and to Decode a String.

Thanks.Are you talking about encryption? Encoding would ESSENTIALLY be putting something into programming language. Please be more specific. Quote from: Raven19528 on December 16, 2011, 11:04:51 AM

Are you talking about encryption? Encoding would essentially be putting something into programming language. Please be more specific.

I am wondering if it is possible to have a batch file display the Month first, then the day, then the year.

I have this, but it is in the wrong order and I don't understand it. I found it off some forum, but it's not what I want...

Code: [Select]echo off
set date=%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%
echo %date%
pause >nul
If this were today, it would echo "20110712."
I would like mine to be "December 07 2011."
If that is not possible then I'd be fine with "12072011"

Also, congrats for the next post in the "Microsoft DOS," you are the 8,888th topic!!!

-NathansswellThe date variable is dependent on your Regional settings in control panel.

My date is currently set like this.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date%
Wed 12/07/2011So the first thing you need to understand is that computers start counting by 0.  So if I want to pull out the day of the week I would need to reference position 0 for a length of 3.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date:~0,3%
WedIf I want the year I could do it two different ways.  I could reference the 11 position by using the number 10 for a length of 4.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date:~10,4%
2011Or I could reference from the back side by using a negative number first.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date:~-4,4%
2011
Does that help you out.I customized my SHORT DATE format in my Regional settings and there doesn't SEEM to be be a way to completely spell out the Month.  It will only give you the abbreviation of the month.  So I made my short date format MMMM dd yyyy and it comes out like this at the cmd PROMPT.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date%
Dec 07 2011
So if you want the Date spelled out completely you could just do a bunch of IF statements to match the Month and the set a variable to the full month name.Just remembered I did something similar like this a few weeks ago on another forum.
So again if your date variable outputs like this.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch\Increment>echo %date%
Wed 12/07/2011 Code: [Select]echo off
:: setting v to equal the current numeric month
set v=%date:~4,2%

:: putting all the possible months into a variable which will be parsed in the for loop
set month_text="01 January" "02 February" "03 March" "04 April" "05 MAY" "06 June" "07 July" "08 August" "09 September" "10 October" "11 November" "12 December"

:: for loop is parsing the month_text variable and using the find command with the numeric month to set the month variable
for %%I in (%month_text%) do echo %%I |find "%v%" &&set month=%%~I
:: Need to remove the Number and space
echo %month:~3% %date:~7,2% %date:~10,4%It will output this.
Code: [Select]C:\Users\Squash\batch>getmonth.bat
"12 December"
December 07 2011

Hi all,

Can anyone suggest me whether its possible to write a batch to check whether a file is completely written or in the process of writing. filecheck.bat path\filename should tell whether that file is completely written or in progress.

Thanks in advanceI am unsure if this is possible in batch, but I know I could definitely do it in VB. If you want me to build it for you, feel free to PM me.Yes it is possible. You cannot rename a file which is in USE by another process, so all you have to do is test if the file exists and then ATTEMPT to rename the file to a dummy name (which does not exist). If the errorlevel is greater than 0 then the file is in use by another process and you cannot rename it. If the errorlevel is zero then the rename succeeded so you rename it back again to its real name. Of course we assume that other sources of error are taken care of e.g. read-only medium, dummy file already exists, etc.




Thanks both.

Bob can u help me in PROVIDING the vb script.

To clarify, I spoke of Visual Basic, not the Scripting variant of such. I could certainly help you if you wish. I just need about three days, because I don't have constant computer access.batch

Code: [Select]echo off
echo Testing file %~nx1
if not exist "%~dpnx1" echo File does not exist! & goto END
if exist "%~dp1\dummy.file" del "%~dp1\dummy.file"
ren "%~dpnx1" dummy.file
If %Errorlevel% gtr 0 (
echo file in use
) else (
echo file not in use
ren "%~dp1\dummy.file" "%~nx1"
)
:end
VBscript

Code: [Select]filespec=wscript.arguments(0)
set fso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
on error resume next
if not fso.fileexists(filespec) then
    wscript.echo "File does not exist!"
    set fso=nothing : wscript.quit(1)
end if

wscript.echo "Testing file " & Filespec
set ots=fso.opentextfile(filespec,8,false)    'forappending
if err.number<>0 then
     wscript.echo "file in use" : err.clear
else
    wscript.echo "file not in use"
    ots.close
end if
on error goto 0
set ots=nothing : set fso=nothing
Never mind VB. Thank you, Salmon Trout.Thanks salman trout.I am thinking you could probably do this also with the OPENFILES command or the HANDLE Utility.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655

this problem is associated with my SERVER (Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 EDITION)

I have two scheduled tasks which runs two batch files respectively (let's called them A.bat and B.bat) on 2am and 7am everyday. The things they do are quite similar, exporting dump files in DATABASE for different schema (around 10 schema for A.bat and around 6 for B.bat) and zipping them accordingly.

Dump files for different schema are exported successfully but some of them couldn't be zipped. Usually those dump files which could not be zipped are created after 7am. I managed to do the zipping (7-zip) in parallel in cmd so parallel zipping should not be causing the problem. One strange thing that I observed is that the batch file continues to run, exporting dump file for next schema, even though it didn't zip the dump file for current schema. And usually A.bat doesn't execute the "goto endloop"

There is no sign of error in the log that I have kept.
Below is part of the batch file,

:loop
if %curr_schema%==END goto endloop
if %count% GEQ 1000 goto endloop
exp PARFILE=%backup_root_dir%\%curr_schema%.par
   "C:\program files\7-zip\7z" a -t7z %dest%\%curr_schema%_%curdate%.7z %dest%\%curr_schema%_%curdate%.dmp      >> %logfile%
goto loop
:endloop
echo done!How does the variable %count% get incremented? And does either of the paths you supply to 7-zip contain spaces?

I do the increment by
set /a count=%count%+1

All paths I supply to 7-zip contain no space.I think it would be beneficial to everyone if we could SEE each batch file in its entirety and see how the Tasks are scheduled in Task Scheduler. Quote from: Squashman on December 08, 2011, 05:25:17 AM

I think it would be beneficial to everyone if we could see each batch file in its entirety and see how the Tasks are scheduled in Task Scheduler.

What is the meaning of "echo."?  I cannot find this ANYWHERE.  I know it does not print the ".".

In general, is there a place where the functions of non-alphabetical characters  are listed?  For example "", ">" (used in redirection), etc.

I have a copy of Peter Norton's DOS 5 Guide.  It has a lot of information, but not on any DOS commands after 1991.  Any good recent book on DOS?  This site is very good, but I have trouble searching through it.

Tomecho. is for inserting BLANK lines, mainly for formatting purposes or ENHANCING readability.http://www.robvanderwoude.com/bht.php#StripThanks dbam and Squashman for the answer and information about ROB Vanderwoude's WEB site.

Tom

Very unhappy with the version of DOS that comes with Windows XP Pro.  I am tired of getting messages telling me I cannot do what I want to do.  An example is deleting a file that was left by an old program.  MS TELLS me that XP and XP DOS are not allowed to do it.

Is there a DOS version available (does not NEED to be free) that works with NTFS formatted disks and does not listen to Microsoft?

I have MS DOS 6.2, but as I remember it does not read NTFS formatted disks.

Tom
Quote from: tomkaz on December 03, 2011, 01:27:14 PM

Is there a DOS version available (does not need to be free) that works with NTFS formatted disks and does not listen to Microsoft?

does closing the cmd window currently running a DEL /f/s/q filepath
terminate the deletion process


i had it running by accident and needed to stop, in my PANIC i closed the cmd window
did that stop it?

also i disconnected myself from that drive
and shut down.

i know i lost some FILES because it was running very fast
but did i stop it when i closed it?When cmd.exe stops, so do any internal commands, and del is internal. You could have used CTRL + C.
thank you for responding , yes i forgot about cntr + c , i didnt keep my cool .

well thats a load off, i know it deleted some files but a few is better then the TB of data Quote from: InternJ on December 13, 2011, 03:51:34 PM

well thats a load off, i know it deleted some files but a few is better then the TB of data

hi

I have a quasion if possible help me. thanks
i need a batch file so

1: i have a file in folder  F:\modern and the file name is  modern.iwi (base file)
2: and so another file with name.txt in F:\Name folder (this txt file inclod 500 name's each name per line )

so i want a batch for this:

create a 500 file's (as the name.txt file have 500 name's) by using the modern.iwi and Name.txt files...
my means copy the modern.iwi with a new name is in the name.txt file in F:\new folder

thanks very much...
Put this batch file in the same folder as your Name.txt file and run it.
CODE: [Select]for /f "tokens=*" %%A in (name.txt) do copy "f:\modern\modern.iwi" "F:\New Folder\%%~A"its nice man very thank you 

so is it possible Instead of name.txt use the name of file's from F:\Ramin folder (with out name.txt)!? Quote from: raminr63 on December 14, 2011, 02:57:55 PM

its nice man very thank you 

so is it possible Instead of name.txt use the name of file's from F:\Ramin folder (with out name.txt)!?

so instead of (name.txt), try this ('dir /b f:\ramin'), let me know if that works

for /f "tokens=*" %%A in (name.txt) do copy "f:\modern\modern.iwi" "F:\New Folder\%%~A"

I don't understand the point behind using the /d switch over the /f switch though. Please explain.

I know it's more but i have just 1 question again

when the source [ ('dir /b f:\ramin') ] have sub-folders i must create sub-folders manually in [ "F:\New Folder\%%~nA" ] with out it, its not worked so is it possible the sub-folders create automatically (forced) with out me ?!! 

and it just only copy the file names from [ ('dir /b f:\ramin') ] and the file format from [ f:\modern\modern.iwi ] not copied ?!! so the copied files have no formats ?!

?! and waitting lol

FOR can use wildcards like this FOR %%A in (*) which will find files, FOR /D %%A in (*) will find directories. See the FOR help.

?! and waitting lol

So if I get this right, I could use 'FOR /F /D %%A in (*)' and find both files and directories in a particular location? Would this find the files and folders within the subdirectories? I would think not because that would be what the /R switch is for, but I'm not certain.

search around for this but couldn't find anything that would work.

i have an environ var called %testfile% that has a value of "sp.cmd"

i need to use the first part of the filename so i tried this which worked.

set temp=%testfile:~0,2%

however, that only works on filesnames with 2 characters, it needs to be more flexible than that.

the question is how can i run a token or delim to capture either the  length of the filename (or the name itself) or have it omit the ".cmd" extension part.

can anyone help out here?Try this:

Code: [Select]
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%1 in ("%testfile%") do (
    set filenam=%%1
)

echo %filenam%
right on!

and now i learned something new with both the FOR and the tokens (was close but really not so close, lol   )

thanks very much for the fast reply...

might have one or two more questions up my sleeve, hopefully they are harder than this one (smiles)I wouldn't make a habit of using numbers for the FOR loop variable especially if you have batch files that use cmd line input or you are calling another label or batch file. Quote from: Squashman

I wouldn't make a habit of using numbers for the FOR loop variable especially if you have batch files that use cmd line input or you are calling another label or batch file.

what am i doing wrong?

what is the difference between:
tokens=1-5 and tokens=0,2  (the question is what is the difference between the dash and the comma)

The default delimiters are the space and carriage returns.

I see that Salmon Trout already beat me too it, but here is what I was working on while he was quicker on the draw this time.

The tokens within a for statement are not well explained in the help text. I too had some questions on them and CH helped steer me in the right direction, so hopefully I can utilize what I was taught and pass it along.

The only other caveat to add is the addition of the "*" at the end of the tokens statement. Using tokens=1* in the second code (for /f "tokens=1*" %a in ("%testset%") do echo %a %b) will actually give you the output of one two three four five six seven because it takes the first delimited token and assigns it to %a, but the "*" tells it to take the rest of the line and assign it to %b.

Please let us know if you have any other questions on the for statement, and I'll try to locate the post that taught me about all of this.

i would LIKE to make my own windows firewall but i would like to USE my EXISTING forewall program. please help
You cant, Windows firewall is not open source, but you can change the settings.

http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-7/515977-how-configure-windows-firewall-windows-7-a.html

I am trying this

for /l %%v in (1,1,59) do rename Track0%%v.mp3 - 7arab.com.mp3 Track0%%v.mp3

why does it SAY "The syntax of the command is incorrect" ?you need to put quotes around filenames that hold spaces :
Code: [SELECT]for /l %%v in (1,1,59) do rename "Track0%%v.mp3 - 7arab.com.mp3" "Track0%%v.mp3"
It worked...but the other problem is with special characters like "éàçè" when I am trying to CREATE a BATCH file...which EDITOR do i have to use to save it correctly ?any that can handle unicode, even Notepad will doIf memory serves me from a recent thread on another forum I post on, you may get undesirable results if you save your batch file as a unicode text file and try to run it.

I am using the batch file below, to add 30 domain USERS to the administrators
group of 30 machines. I would really like it though if I could make the batch
file read from a text file that will list the domain user names and the machine
names, instead of having to add these names in the batch file manually.

Help?

Thanks

set machineuser=
set machinepass=
set domainfull=
set domainsmall=

set domainuser001=
set domainuser002=
set domainuser003=
set domainuser004=
set domainuser005=
set domainuser006=
set domainuser007=
set domainuser008=
set domainuser009=
set domainuser010=
set domainuser011=
set domainuser012=
set domainuser013=
set domainuser014=
set domainuser015=
set domainuser016=
set domainuser017=
set domainuser018=
set domainuser019=
set domainuser020=
set domainuser021=
set domainuser022=
set domainuser023=
set domainuser024=
set domainuser025=
set domainuser026=
set domainuser027=
set domainuser028=
set domainuser029=
set domainuser030=

set machinename001=
set machinename002=
set machinename003=
set machinename004=
set machinename005=
set machinename006=
set machinename007=
set machinename008=
set machinename009=
set machinename010=
set machinename011=
set machinename012=
set machinename013=
set machinename014=
set machinename015=
set machinename016=
set machinename017=
set machinename018=
set machinename019=
set machinename020=
set machinename021=
set machinename022=
set machinename023=
set machinename024=
set machinename025=
set machinename026=
set machinename027=
set machinename028=
set machinename029=
set machinename030=

psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -P %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser001%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser002%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser003%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser004%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser005%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser006%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser007%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser008%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser009%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser010%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser011%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser012%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser013%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser014%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser015%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser016%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser017%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser018%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser019%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser020%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser021%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser022%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser023%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser024%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser025%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser026%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser027%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser028%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser029%" /add
psexec \\%machinename001%.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net
localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%domainuser030%" /add
pause
Make two text FILES.  One with the Machine Name and one with the User Names.  Then you can use nested FOR LOOPS to parse the Machine Name Text file and User name text file.
Code: [Select]set machineuser=
set machinepass=
set domainfull=
set domainsmall=
FOR /f "TOKENS=*" %%M in (Machines.txt) do (
     FOR /f "tokens=* %%U in (usernames.txt) do (
          psexec \\%%M.%domainfull% -u %machineuser% -p %machinepass% net localgroup Administrators "%domainsmall%\%%U" /add
     )
)
       Thank you! I will try it today!

I need to be able walk thru and read all the files in G:\folderA and all files in subfolders under folderA and determine if the file exists in C:\folderA. If the file cannot be found in G:\folderA, then deleted the file in C:\folderA.

ie
If G:\1-AlsWork\file1.ext exists in C:\AlsWork ?      then next test,  if no, delete the file in G:\1-AlsWork\file1.ext
then move to the next file in G:\1-AlsWork and do the same test ...

also
If G:\1-AlsWork\subfolder1\somefile.ext exists in C:\AlsWork\subfolder1    then next test, if no, delete the file in G:\1-AlsWork\subfolder1\somefile.ext

Hope this explaination is clear ENOUGH for you to understand

Thanks in advance
cyberal Quote from: cyberal on December 22, 2011, 12:24:00 PM

I need to be able walk thru and read all the files in G:\folderA and all files in subfolders under folderA and determine if the file exists in C:\folderA. If the file cannot be found in G:\folderA, then deleted the file in C:\folderA.

Am I out in left field on this?

I use the spacing for my own sanity, as it allows me to see exactly which parentheses constructs are being opened and closed, but you can use different or no spacing if you like.

I'm working on a batch file game (a sort of quiz).
The way it works is that there is a file called FACTS.txt which contains each item in the quiz in 6-line "blocks." Each "block" uses the following STRUCTURE:

• Question
• Choice a
• Choice b
• Choice c
• Answer
• Explanation

set number=%1%>>OUTPUT.txt

In this line, where is the value of %1% coming from?

I am just assuming he is calling the function above and passing the question number with the CALL.

Just remember that assuming makes an *censored* out of u and some guy named Ming...

I was wondering if SLEEP is the best method for a 10 minute delay or if there is anything else out there that works better for longer than what sleep was really created for delays in batch files for say 10, 15, 30 minutes etc?

I have a batch that executes 6 processes using START for each process to execute. On step 3 I have to wait 10 minutes for the program in Step 2 to be at the correct rested state to take step 4's process. If Step 4 executes too soon, it will likely corrupt the SQL database in Step 2 for our Cheftec Software.

I cant think of any other fix to this other than CREATING a LONG delay so that I am 99.9% confident that Step 2 is done and resting, so that I can process the additional batched SQL instructions.

All suggestions welcome. Just thinking that there might be a better means than using SLEEP which I think was designed for shorter delays like 30 sec etc.Well, Windows Vista and Above have the TIMEOUT command but you also need to understand two others things about batch.

Batch files do sequential processing.  That means it does not move onto the next command until the previous command has COMPLETED.   The only exception to that is if you launch another process with the START command.  But if you use the START command you can also use the WAIT switch to keep it from moving on to the next process until the current one has completed.  You also don't need to use the START command at all to launch another process. 

So here are some batch file examples:

If I want to launch Notepad and then launch calculator after notepad is closed, I could do two ways.

If you put this code into a batch file, Calculator will not launch until Notepad has closed.
Code: [Select]"%windir%\system32\notepad.exe"
"%windir%\system32\calc.exe"You can also do it like this as well.
Code: [Select]start "" /wait "%windir%\system32\notepad.exe"
start "" /wait "%windir%\system32\calc.exe"Same affect just DIFFERENT code.  The next process will not start until the previous process has completed. Quote from: nixie on DECEMBER 23, 2011, 09:46:11 AM

I was wondering if SLEEP is the best method for a 10 minute delay or if there is anything else out there that works better for longer than what sleep was really created for delays in batch files for say 10, 15, 30 minutes etc?

I'm having problems regarding conversion of video to FLV format. Below is my command

for conversion, but it seems to CONVERT the video to flv but the FILE size remains 0

KB, what could be the problem, please suggest.

My command:

$command =$ffmpegPath . " -i " . $srcFile . " -ar " . $srcAR . " -ab " . $srcAB . "

-f flv -s " . $srcWidth . "x" . $srcHeight . " " . $destFile . " | " . $flvtool2Path

. " -U stdin " . $destFile;

Please Help me ASAP. It's urgent

Thanks in advance

Regards
HemYou'll (possibly) get a quicker response if you post this in a different forum.. This is the Web Design forum.I'm disabling your other account and deleting all of the DUPLICATE posts. Please stay with one account and one post per problem. I'm also moving this to a more appropriate forum. Thank YO

The ^ "escapes" the "!" and makes it so the batch program sees it as a character instead of the start of a variable, which is what it is currently seeing and likely the reason you get the "Bad command or file name".

The cd /d will work in cmd prompt in Windows

It can't see it as the start of a variable. MS-DOS does not use ! as a variable delimiter. He mentions autoexec.bat, which means he is using real MS-DOS, not Windows NT family cmd (often wrongly and confusingly called "DOS"). !-GHOST is a legal folder name in MS-DOS.

Perhaps then the reason he is getting the bad command error message is due to the fact that he has the "\" preceding the folder he is searching for.

I wonder if MS-DOS can even see the G: partition.

That may be the issue. I wonder if the G: is being mounted prior to this running. The OP may need to put mount.exe on the boot disk and mount the G: drive prior to running this particular command sequence in the batch file.

Hello all.

First of all, I wish you all a great 2012!

Second, my question / problem:

I have ~1500 text files CONTAINING lyrics, and they're ORGANISED in folders following the artist name. E.g.: \Rush\Rush - Tom Sawyer.txt


I want to re-organise the files, so that they match the same scheme used by Evil Lyrics, which is by artist's first letter: \R\Rush - Tom Sawyer.txt.

So, what I need to do is:

• Extract the first letter of the file name
• Move the file to a path which consists of a base-path + first letter

• reduce the file to just the file name (by using %%~n to remove the path)
• set variable STR with the file name
• echo the reduced file name
• echo the variable

You need to enable delayed expansion. This allows you to use the exclamations around your variable names.
echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

Hello All,

In the process of learning on how to create batch files. I'm trying to figure out on how to copy from the blank space to the end of the row, then replace it with a 2 at the end of the LINE. The FIRST line is what I currently have but trying to get to the end result of the 2nd line. I HOPE this is detail enough to get some help on this issue.

 99940                                            E1          -0001.30                                                           
 99940                                            E1          -0001.30                                                           2

All the help is very much appreciated.

Thanks
meveNot sure what you want here.
I need the batch file to copy from the 0 to the end of the 1st line
then paste that same line but put the 2 at the end of that same line.

The biggest thing is I need to have a 2 at the end of line 1. Quote from: matteve on December 30, 2011, 11:59:31 AM

I need the batch file to copy from the 0 to the end of the 1st line

Anyhow, I wouldn't use batch for this, I'd use Visual Basic Script.

Well it would be easy enough to remove the existing spaces at the end of the line and then repad the line with a bunch of spaces and substring that variable to a length of 117 and then put the number at the end.

I have a text file exported from the movie collectorz program and I want to add my DVD collection to xbmc through stub files. I found this code and modified it to give me the files.


Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=*" %%l in (aaa.txt) do echo %%l > "%%l.dvd.DISC"
 now I'm realizing I want to create a directory named from the list and place the created file into that directory. also I want to add the xml into the file -

Code: [Select]<discstub>
  <message>%moviename% is located in the DVD rack</message>
</discstub>




where "moviename" is taken from the aaa.txt file this is way beyond my tiny brains ability so I need help....LMAO

the text file looks like this...

The Adjustment Bureau (2010)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Alien³ (1992)
Alien:_Resurrection (1997)
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (2007)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Avatar (Extended_Cut) (2010)
Back To The Future (1985)
Back To The Future II (1989)
Back To The Future III (1990)


and I want to end up with...


a Dir named "The Adjustment Bureau (2010)" with a file named "The Adjustment Bureau (2010).DVD.Disc" in it and the file to contain the xml code from above with "The Adjustment Bureau (2010)" as the moviename.


I have spent hours trying different things and all have failed (and failed well I might add...LOL) I have almost 3,000 DVDS and would hate to have to do this by hand. and I'm sure others could use something similar

is a bat file the best thing to use? would vbs be better? anyone know of a program that will do this? any help or thoughts welcome.Hi Bill...OK I got a working set of scripts. the first one makes the files and the second one creates a folder from the filename and moves the file into it.

Im running into one problem, some of the movies contain an ":" which screws that filename up. I've tried putting a ^ in front of the colon in the text file but this don't help. is there a way to replace it or parse it or clean it in the script?If you are not using the Script that was provided to you on the other forum (DosTips.com) you posted this question on please post the code you are using.

ThanksA colon is not allowed in the name of a file or folder on Windows.  So whether or not a batch file can read it, for this purpose it's irrelevant.  You'll need to think of different names! Quote from: Squashman on January 04, 2012, 09:20:02 AM

If you are not using the Script that was provided to you on the other forum (DosTips.com) you posted this question on please post the code you are using.

Thanks

A colon is not allowed in the name of a file or folder on Windows.  So whether or not a batch file can read it, for this purpose it's irrelevant.  You'll need to think of different names!

i have an idea so i wanna ASK is it possible i work with scanning pictures and i archive them in server in folder skenirani and then sub folders with name of media ex: r:/clipping_skenirani/globus or r:/clipping_skenirani/vest  and there are .jpg files i want to archive in r:/bekap but not all pictures inside the media folders . ex: vest got pictures from 2 mount like 01_11_2011_vest.jpg and 01_12_2011_vest.jpg so basically i want to create batch file that will find and move to r:/bekap all the files containing mount  ex: 01_11_2011_vest.jpg but not to move the files with 01_12_2011_vest.jpg and then to zip them in bekap folder bekap.zip. i try this way but something goes wrong it don't search in sub folders

echo off
Set FindStrArgs= /R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\ ".jpg"
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\"*_11_2011_*"  R:\bekap
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "R:\bekap\lala.zip" "R:\bekap\"
Look at xcopy.can u make this thing work or give example
echo off
Set FindStrArgs= /R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\ ".jpg"
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\BIZNIS\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\DNEVEN_FOKUS\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\DNEVEN_KAPITAL\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\DNEVNIK\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\ereporter\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\FAKTI\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\FOKUS\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\FORUM\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\forum.com.mk\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\GLOBUS\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\idividi.com.mk\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\info.com.mk\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\inpress.com.mk\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\kajgana.com.mk\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\KAPITAL\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\kirilica_portal\"*_01_2012_*"  R:\bekap
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "R:\bekap\lala.zip" "R:\bekap\"

how to avoid all this subfolders COPY R:\Clipping_Skenirani_Napisi\* and how to make it to enter what string to search "*_01_2012_*" Quote from: Squashman on January 02, 2012, 07:03:49 PM

Look at xcopy.

i have tried xcopy but still copies all sub directories in the skenirani directory instead only the files. i will continue using my old way using start find files and folder searching the skenirani with paramters *.jpg then select all cut paste in backup and zip them

Maybe one day you will actually read the basic help given by the /? switch and discover the /S switch, but until then let's pretend there isn't a way to do this.

I think the issue was that the OP didn't want any of the subdirectories in the folder being copied to, just a long list of files.

Can you assisted with commands or examples to get me STARTED? I needed to create a batch file to run based on a list of WINDOWS profile usernames to include the default profile. This batch file will be running in SCCM package.

I will be working on Windows XP and 7 but I may want to separate and create two batch files for each OS to simplify the process.

1.) I need to create the list.
dir c:\users\*.>users.txt
dir c:\”Documents and Settings\*.>users.txt”

2.) Delete a file from all Windows 7 profiles based on the list.

>>C:\Users\%username%\FAVORITES\

3.) Then add a file to all Windows 7 and XP profiles based on the list.
Win7
>>C:\Users\%username%\Favorites
>>C:\Users\%username%\Desktop
WinXP
>>C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Desktop
>>C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Favorites

I think this will work regardless of XP or 7.
Code: [Select]echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%I in ("%USERPROFILE%") do set pPath=%%~dpI
pushd "%pPath%"
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /ad /A-S /b') do (
DEL "%%~fA\favorites\somefile.txt"
)
POPDThanks for the post that did it for me! Maybe someone else can use this also.

echo off
:FIND VERSION
ver | findstr /i "5\.1\." > nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 goto WindowsXP
ver | findstr /i "6\.1\." > nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 goto WINDOWS7

:WindowsXP
for /f "tokens=*" %%I in ("%USERPROFILE%") do set pPath=%%~dpI
pushd "%pPath%"

for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /ad /A-S /b') do (
   )

echo copy to folder...

for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /ad /A-S /b') do (
   copy "c:\pass\pass_Self-Service-4.7.url" "%%~fA\favorites\"
)

echo copy for desktop
copy "c:\pass\pass_Self-Service-4.7.url" c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop

:Windows7
for /f "tokens=*" %%I in ("%USERPROFILE%") do set pPath=%%~dpI
pushd "%pPath%"

for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /ad /A-S /b') do (
   DEL "%%~fA\favorites\PB_Sites\PASS Self-Service.url"
)

echo copy to folder...

for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /ad /A-S /b') do (
   copy "c:\pass\pass_Self-Service-4.7.url" "%%~fA\favorites\PB_Sites\"
)

echo copy for desktop
copy "c:\pass\pass_Self-Service-4.7.url" c:\users\public\desktop

till now I've this
for /F  %%i in (c:\tempdos\klantenlijst.txt) do md %%i

putting the %%i in between "" doesn't work...

SOMEBODY knows how to do this?

klantenlijst.txt
-------------------
jef jansen
paul geerts
mady bogaerts
for /F  "tokens=*" %%i in (c:\tempdos\klantenlijst.txt) do md "%%i"Or Code: [Select]for /F  "delims=" %%i in (c:\tempdos\klantenlijst.txt) do md "%%i"And if you need to understand why it is because by default the data that is passed in a FOR loop is delimited by a SPACE and TAB.  So since your DIRECTORY NAMES have SPACES the loop variable was only being assigned the first token.

So I was trying to do the following:

set /p t=""
if %t%==joe goto num1
if %t%==two WORDS goto num2


But when I would input the text "two words", it would complain about:

words==joe was unexpected at this time

I thought it was a issue with the space of two words, but I cant seem to fix it. any help?The problem ARISES because of the space in "two words". You need to quote the variables and test text like below. In fact it is a good idea to always use quotes. Otherwise for EXAMPLE you would ALSO get an error if you just hit Enter at the set /p line and input an empty string.

if "%t%"=="joe" goto num1
if "%t%"=="two words" goto num2

oooooh!
You got to put quotes around the %t% too!

Ah thats why I was messing up. I tried to make it a string by putting quotes on the "two words" but that DIDNT work Quote from: 036483 on January 08, 2012, 02:21:36 AM

oooooh!
You got to put quotes around the %t% too!

Ah thats why I was messing up. I tried to make it a string by putting quotes on the "two words" but that didnt work

I am attempting to store a list of drives which possess a TEST directory in their root folder within a pseudo-array. For the purpose of this example, I would then want them read back.

Code: [Select]Set foldercounter=0
For /F %%a in ('Fsutil Fsinfo Drives') do ( Set d=%%a
call If "%%d:~1%%"==":\" call If exist %%d%%TEST (call set folder_%%foldercounter%%=%%d%%TEST & set /a foldercounter+=1)
)
if %foldercounter%==0 goto end
set foldercounter2=0
:loop
set foldermalformedname=folder_%foldercounter2%
call echo/%%%foldermalformedname%%%
If not %foldercounter%==%foldercounter2% set/a foldercounter2+=1 & goto loop
:end
Let's say I have  have three drives: C:\, D:\, F:\ and I:\.  Only I:\ has a TEST folder in its root directory. I would expect the output:

Code: [Select]I:\TEST
Currently, I'm unable to find a way to chain my if statements without causing errors (the above code throws errors, despite many MODIFICATION attempts). Also, how would I then be able to include drives that had, for example, a folder entitled MISC in their root directory? Let's say, continuing from the above example, that both I:\ and F:\ had a MISC directory in them. How could I produce the output below?

Code: [Select]F:\MISC
I:\TEST
I:\MISC
I'm now aware that I should have chosen Powershell or similar for the job and I've already been reprimanded for it:

Quote from: Salmon Trout on January 05, 2012, 01:12:16 PM

Question: If you feel the need to laboriously create pseudo-arrays, and you find batch syntax "cumbersome", why not use a language with proper arrays and cool looking code, like VBScript or, better, Powershell?

Let's say I have  have three drives: C:\, D:\, F:\ and I:\.

I have a arcade game. It is called Deal or No Deal and it gives out tickets when you win.  It is made by a company called ICE Game.  The motherboard went bad for second time and I can't find the same model as a replacement. ICE wants almost $1000.00 for a replacement computer.  This is a common problem with their gear and I think it goes back to the bad Capacitors that plagued many computers. 

I want to MODIFY the restore process so I can use a different motherboard.  Right now it fails when attempting to install a different motherboard when trying to install Nvidia drivers, which the new motherboard doesn't use.   I need some help with understanding the boot process and changing the drivers. 

The restore CD first builds a DOS partition and installs FreeDOS then installs Linux and then the game is installed on that.  After that it boots up in Linux and runs the game.

I have been looking at the files and I can't quite figure out or follow the process.

For example: In the ROOT directory on the restore CD there are about ten files.  One of them is a AUTORUN.INF  Is that the first thing that is looked at after the CDROM starts the boot process?  In that file is this:

icon=\FREEDOS\FREEDOS.ICO,0
label=FreeDOS Beta 9
shell\DOCFDInfo=View &FreeDOS Information Sheet
shell\DOCFDInfo\command=write \FREEDOS\DOCS\INFO.TXT
shell\DOCInstReadme=View Read&Me
shell\DOCInstReadme\command=write \FREEDOS\DOCS\README.TXT
shell\DOCInstall=&View Installation Document
shell\DOCInstall\command=write \FREEDOS\DOCS\INSTALL3.TXT
shell\DOCPrograms=View Included Programs &Details (Name, License, URL)
shell\DOCPrograms\command=write \FREEDOS\DOCS\PROGRAMS.TXT
shell\MakeBoot=Create Generic 1.44MB &Bootdisk for use with FreeDOS CD
shell\MakeBoot\command=FREEDOS\SETUP\BATCH\BOOTDISK.BAT

Is the next thing that takes place is the BOOTDISK.BAT file being run?  Here is what is in that.
echo off
cls
rem Check for memdisk existence, errorlevel 1=found ; 0=notfound
set dest=A:
if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto begin
if not exist a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com goto begin
a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com
if errorlevel 3 goto begin
if errorlevel 1 set dest=B:
goto begin

:begin
title FreeDOS Bootdisk Builder
cls
echo Welcome to the bootdisk builder. this will create a bootdisk for you.
echo.
if not "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto begin2
echo Please insert a (non)empty formatted diskette in diskdrive and press a key to continue
goto emptydsk
:begin2
if not "%cdrom%"=="" CDD %cdrom%
cls
if "%dest%"=="B:" echo Please insert a (non)empty formatted diskette in your diskette drive.
if "%dest%"=="A:" echo please remove bootdisk and insert a (non)empty formatted diskette in your diskette drive
goto emptydsk

:emptydsk
pause Press a key to continue or Control-C to abort.
rem show files, trying to detect kernels.
attrib -r -h -s %dest%\*.*
cls
rem kernel files and cdromdrivers (as long as atapicdd.sys isn't performing good/stable enough)
for %%x in ( %dest%\io.sys %dest%\msdos.sys %dest%\oakcdrom.sys ) do if exist %%x attrib +r %%x
for %%x in ( %dest%\*.* ) do del %%x
rem all files in root removed, except for kernel files.
goto docopy

:docopy
if "%dest%"=="A:" \freedos\3rdparty\extract -ox \isolinux\data\fdboot.img %dest% *.*
if "%dest%"=="B:" xcopy /s /y A:\*.* %dest%
rem files are now present on diskette!
rem setup stable cdromdriver, delete recreatable files
if exist %dest%\oakcdrom.sys copy /y %dest%\oakcdrom.sys %dest%\driver\vide-cdd.sys
if exist %dest%\metakern.sys del %dest%\metakern.sys
if exist %dest%\freedos\bootsect.bin del %dest%\freedos\bootsect.bin
set kernel=kernel.sys

rem Assuming non-freedos bootsector currently installed on diskette
if not exist %dest%\io.sys goto end
%dest%\freedos\copybs.com %dest% %dest%\freedos\bootsect.bin
if not exist %dest%\freedos\bootsect.bin goto end
if not exist %dest%\freedos\meta-all.bin goto end
if not exist %dest%\freedos\metaboot.bot goto end
copy /b %dest%\freedos\meta-all.bin + %dest%\freedos\metaboot.bot + %dest%\freedos\bootsect.bin %dest%\metakern.sys
if exist %dest%\metakern.sys set kernel=metakern.sys
echo SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /P=A:\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT >> %dest%\config.sys
goto end

:end
echo Kernel file: %kernel%
%dest%\freedos\SYS %dest% %dest% BOOTONLY /K %kernel%
set kernel=
goto end2
:end2

This is where I get lost.  This is where I need some help on what it is doing and what takes place next.  And I guess I keep following this until I get to the point where it loads the config files for the drivers and then modify that to use different ones. 
This process is all automated.  Even though there are things that say "Insert floppy disc"etc.  all we normally do is put the CD in the computer and turn the computer on and in about ten minutes it restores all of the files and the game from then on boots and plays when the machine is turned on.

If someone things they can help me with this I can pay some money through paypal.  I am doing this trying to save some money but I know there isn't a easy answer and it might take many messages.  Or if someone can guide me through this on the forum that would be helpful.  If it wasn't a rush I would just STUDY this stuff and figure it out eventually but I have to get this back up and running. 

On the batch file listed above, this is the first part.
rem Check for memdisk existence, errorlevel 1=found ; 0=notfound 
set dest=A:
if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto begin  and here, etc.
if not exist a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com goto begin
a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com
if errorlevel 3 goto begin
if errorlevel 1 set dest=B:
goto begin

Could someone explain how this part works?

Thanks for any help and if this is too much for this forum is there a place I can GO with this type of question?
Thank you
Russ
Quote from: uriahsky on January 04, 2012, 04:59:17 PM

On the batch file listed above, this is the first part.
rem Check for memdisk existence, errorlevel 1=found ; 0=notfound 
set dest=A:
if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto begin  and here, etc.
if not exist a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com goto begin
a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com
if errorlevel 3 goto begin
if errorlevel 1 set dest=B:
goto begin


Could someone explain how this part works?

rem Check for memdisk existence, errorlevel 1=found ; 0=notfound
set dest=A:
if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto begin  and here, etc.
if not exist a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com goto begin
a:\freedos\ifmemdsk.com
if errorlevel 3 goto begin
if errorlevel 1 set dest=B:
goto begin

Then the part where %os% ==windows nt.  Is it looking somewhere for "OS" to be set as "Windows NT" or something else?    Where is "OS" going to be set? 

Hi All,

i'm very new to batch FILES and appologees if this is very simple question.

i currently have over 100 avi files located on P:\films\films\ and would LIKE create a .nfo file for each, KEEPING the same file name i.e Star Wars Episode II - Attack Of The Clones.avi with Star Wars Episode II - Attack Of The Clones.nfo

Can some please advise what the cmd would be to complete this function?

Thank you in advance. For this job you will need the FOR command.
Code: [Select]FOR /?For more info.

To create an empty file the command:
Code: [Select]ECHO.>(filename)will suffice.

So, perhaps:
Code: [Select]ECHO OFF
P:
CD P:\films\films
FOR %%I IN (*.avi) DO ECHO.>%%~nI.nfo
edit:
Although, would be faster to just open Run and ENTER this:
Code: [Select]FOR %I IN (P:\films\films\*.avi) DO ECHO.>%~nI.nfoThank you Veltas - worked a treat!!!

I have been using BATCH FILES for a while now, but I have not learned what or how to use the tokens and delims and I have a feeling that they are very useful. Can SOMEBODY please FILL me in, thanks. Tokens are sections of a string, separated by delimiters.

If this is the FOR command

for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=," %%A in ("eggs,bacon,cheese") do echo %%A %%B %%C

%%A is eggs
%%B is bacon
%%C is cheese

Have you done this?

FOR /?

Hi all,

I am writing a batch file which needs to retrieve a list of files from a directory (including subdirectories) and then performs analysis on each path. Currently though, I am unable to get it working. Rather than post the entire batch file, I have created a well-commented sample showing the method I am currently working on. If there is a better way of doing this, I'd be very happy to hear of it.

Code: [Select]echo on
rem Make an example directory and populate it with 5 files.
set d=%homedrive%\ExampleTestDir
If not exist %d% md %d%
echo/File 1 contents.>%d%/file1.txt
echo/File 2 contents.>%d%/file2.txt
echo/File 3 contents.>%d%/file3.txt
echo/File 4 contents.>%d%/file4.txt
echo/File 5 contents.>%d%/file5.txt

rem Create a set of variables from file_0 to file_x , where x is the number of files in the directory and all its sub-directories.
rem These variables will each hold the file path of one of the files in the directory tree.
set filecounter=0
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir/b /s %d%') do (
call set file_%%filecounter%%=%%a
set/a filecounter+=1
)

rem Now attempt to echo the variable values (essentially performing a dir/b /s).
set counter2=0
:loop
set filenumber=file_%counter2%
rem In the LINE of code below, I use 2>nul to prevent the script from throwing 'The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.' errors seemingly at random.
rem I would like to know why it does this and find a way of avoiding it, if possible.
echo/2>nul | echo/%%%filenumber%%%
set/a counter2+=1
If %counter2% GEQ %filecounter% goto breakout
goto loop


rem Now the above works (albeit with the erratic error messages if 2>nul is not used), but I cannot set a vairable to be equal to the output of the echo command.
rem For example, replacing 'echo/2>nul | echo/%%%filenumber%%%' with 'echo/2>nul | echo/%%%filenumber%%% | set curfilename=' does not work.
rem The example loop below (currently ignored) does not behave as expected (by me, at least).
rem Curfilename is not assigned a value.
:unusuedloop
set filenumber=file_%counter2%
echo/2>nul | echo/%%%filenumber%%% | set curfilename=
echo/%curfilename%
set/a counter2+=1
If %counter2% GEQ %filecounter% goto breakout
goto unusedloop

:breakout
rem And tidy up afterwards.
rd/s /q %d%

To clarify, when I say it produces these errors seemingly at random, I mean that the output from the exact same batch script (with the 2>nul removed) can produce the following:

Code: [Select]C:\ExampleTestDir\file1.txt
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
C:\ExampleTestDir\file2.txt
C:\ExampleTestDir\file3.txt
C:\ExampleTestDir\file4.txt
C:\ExampleTestDir\file5.txt
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
and

Code: [Select]C:\ExampleTestDir\file1.txt
C:\ExampleTestDir\file2.txt
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
C:\ExampleTestDir\file3.txt
C:\ExampleTestDir\file4.txt
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
C:\ExampleTestDir\file5.txt
With no alternations whatsoever to the batch file between the attempts.

Also, on a related note, when extracting the filename from the path (although I usually need the path, sometimes I need the name), I am using the cumbersome line
Code: [Select]for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%source%") do set sourcefilename=%%~nxawhere source is a filepath to the file. Although this works well enough, I can't help but feel there's a neater way of doing it. Is there?

Any thoughts MUCH appreciated, be they on my (rather poor) coding or direct answers to the questions.
Why???!!! are you doing this?

echo/2>nul | echo/%%%filenumber%%%

When you can do this?

call echo %%%filenumber%%%

See? No pipe!

And... get the value into a variable:

for /f "delims=" %%A in ('call echo %%%filenumber%%%') do set curfilename=%%A

Or... much simpler:

call set curfilename=%%%filenumber%%%

Quote

Also, on a related note, when extracting the filename from the path (although I usually need the path, sometimes I need the name), I am using the cumbersome line

for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%source%") do set sourcefilename=%%~nxa

where source is a filepath to the file. Although this works well enough, I can't help but feel there's a neater way of doing it. Is there?

"with the 2>nul removed" - did you mean like this?

echo/ | echo/%%%filenumber%%%

The reason I chose to use a normal MS DOS batch file is because I've used them before. Not a particularly good reason, admittedly.

A very poor reason coming from an apparently intelligent person!

By the way, this is not "MS-DOS".

When I said it was cumbersome, I was referring to the way in which I'm essentially using the for statement to convert a normal variable into the %%[letter] form, so that I can then extract the filename using %%~nx[letter].

Would cmd.exe batch files describe them well enough?

Hello,

I could use some help.
I would like to rename a whole bunch of files.

Now they are named like:              A story about frogs - Mister Greenleg.epub
They should be renamed to:          Mister Greenleg - A story about frogs.epub

How do i do that with a bat file?

Thanks in Advance,
GreenlegThere's probably a 1 line line solution, but I can't find a way of trimming the whitespace WITHOUT a second line.

The below switches the two halves of the file name AROUND the hyphen (and does so for all files in the directory and its subdirectories). It will fail on any files that do not have a hyphen in their name, with error 'The syntax of the command is incorrect.', but will rename all other files before and after the hypenless file:

Code: [Select]For /f "tokens=1,2 delims=-" %%a in ('dir/b /s') do (set p2=%%~nb
call ren "%%~na - %%p2:~1%%%%~xb" "%%p2:~1%% - %%~na%%~xb")Hello Sirim,

Thank you for helping me out.
I tried the code you wrote, but it doenst work.
It reads EVERY file, bit says that it can't find the given file.

C:\Documents and Settings\Jan\Bureaublad\rename-ebooks>(
set p2= Nachtlamp
 call ren "rename - %p2:~1%" "%p2:~1% - rename"
)
Het systeem kan het opgegeven bestand niet vinden.

This is the message i get. (I'm using a dutch XP OS)
The directory where i run the bat file is "rename-ebooks"
The batfile itself is called "rename"
And this message come from the file  "Nachtlamp - Jack Vance.epub"
The last line in dutch says that the system can't find the file given.

Any idea what i'm doing wrong?

GREETINGS, GreenlegMy code wasn't expecting a hypen in the folder name. The below does (this ACTUALLY requires there to be exactly 1 hyphen in the folder path):

Code: [Select]For /f "tokens=2,3 delims=-" %%a in ('dir/b /s') do (set p2=%%~nb
call ren "%%~na - %%p2:~1%%%%~xb" "%%p2:~1%% - %%~na%%~xb")this one works.
Thanks for helping me out.
Saves me a lot of workYou're welcome, glad I could help.Here is a much longer piece of code that crops the name down to the text string and then sets them up the way you show. It is definitely more involved than the previously posted code, but it should provide also prevent some errors from occuring if different spaced names are encountered.

Code: [Select]echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=-" %%A in ('dir /s /b') do (
  set oldfile=%%A-%%B-%%C
  set ext=%%C
  call :skimext
  set P1=%%B
  call :skimP1
  set P2=%%C
  call :skimP2
  set newfile=!P2! - !P1!!ext!
  echo ren !oldfile! !newfile!
  pause
)
goto :eof


:skimext
:extloop
echo %ext% | find "." >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto setext
set ext=%ext:~1%
goto extloop
:setext
set ext=.%ext%
goto :eof

:skimP1
:P1loop1
set P1LC=%P1:~-1%
if not "%P1LC%"==" " goto P1loop2
set P1=%P1:~0,-1%
goto P1loop1
:P1loop2
echo %P1% | find "\" >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto :eof
set P1=%P1:~1%
goto P1loop2

:skimP2
:P2loop1
set P2C1=%P2:~0,1%
if not "%P2C1%"==" " goto P2loop2
set P2=%P2:~1%
goto P2loop1
:P2loop2
echo %P2% | find "." >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto :eof
set P2=%P2:~0,-1%
goto P2loop2
Now this code may seem much longer and much more convoluted, but it should also accomplish what you are wanting to accomplish, with a little error compensation involved as well. When you are satisfied that the code is showing you the correct command that you are wanting to see (you should see the ren !oldfile! !newfile! expanded with correct names) then take the echo out of the second-to-last line and remove the pause on the last line and run the code.

Hello,

I am MAKING a vba project in which I take info from the vba FORM put it together in a command line and pass it in a dos command, this line creates an item in another tool.

I have an issue with a text field, in which you may enter data in a text format with enter and another line and enter, when I pass this into a dos command the enter sign will not be recognized as a character but as the command it self an enter which runs the dos command to early

I am now stuck, how can I modify the text what type of escape character should I introduce that will be seen in fact as an enter signShow some code.  The enter key is supposed to finish a user input.well

Execute DOS Command: im createissue --hostname=mks-psad-test --port=8002 --user=blabla --password=xxxxxx --type=issue --field=Summary="Summarize your requestdd" --field=Description="Describe your request
new
line
again one"
 --field="Issue Type=Change Request" --field="Project=/Tool_Support" --field="System Element"=89462 --field="Stakeholder Reference"=blabla

this is the dos command which after the first enter it deploys the dos and that enter is from the text field, is not an actual enter, how can I transform the text
Describe your request
new
line
again one

so that the enters are read as special character and not as an enter command?mibushk, I think we need to go over some basics.  I can't follw what you are doing.
We can deal with non-visible chars in a special way in low-level programs.  The end of line is done in perhaps four different ways on computer systems. But you normally do not have to remove or add it to any text you are nursing.

At the DOS command line {actually the Windows command line} items are separated by spaces. Different programs have different command line options.  When a program reprieves a  command line options it is not really the command interpreter that is doing the work. The command interpreter just gives it to the program. Of course, the command has to be on one line with no end of line until the end of line.

In VBA and other versions of MS basic there is a specific way to write a line of text WITHOUT en-of-line markers until the last item in the line. This is true of all modern computer languages. You do not have to remove or transform end-of-line chars. They are not sent unless you specified them in you write statement. But you do have to indicate how items are exasperated, unless the program does not require separation or delimiting of items.

Please, I am not trying to talk down to you. But it seems like you want to write code at a low-level when you don't have to.

Without knowing what program you use with VBA I have to just guess.
To write one line with a number of fields and then finish with a end of line, hound would do it like this:

Code: [Select]Write request$,  option$, daytime$, send$
WrinteLNThat is not real code, it shows items separated from northeaster and then an end of line given. In this dialectic the $ means i not a number, but a string. The commas may generate tabs or spaces. Again, that depends on the dialect. 

I hope this is of some help. Pardon my grammer. Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 23, 2012, 02:02:56 PM

Pardon my grammer.

I hope this is of some help. Pardon my grammer.

im createissue --hostname=mks-psad-test --port=8002 --user=blabla --password=xxxxxx --type=issue --field=Summary="Summarize your requestdd" --field=Description="Describe your request

[...] provides a command line interface (CLI) to manage users, groups, and permissions; and issues. Unlike Source Integrity Enterprise Edition, the Integrity Manager CLI does not yet provide the same functionality as the graphical user interface (GUI) or Web interface, and only a few command line interface commands support GUI interaction. At this time, the command line interface provides basic Integrity Manager functionality. For complete functionality, use the graphical user interface or Web interface.

im createissue [--addAttachment=value] [--addRelationships=value]
[--type=value] [--field=value] [--hostname=server] [--port=number]
[--password=password] [--user=name] [(-?|--usage)]
[(-F file|--selectionFile=file)] [(-N|--no)] [(-Y|--yes)] [--[no]adorn]
[--[no]batch] [--cwd=directory] [--forceConfirm=[yes|no]]

But you do have to indicate how items are exasperated

some kind of embeeded newline indicator