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Any commands or code could track a process running time within a batch file?

When I RAN iteration of a process in Windows XP, a single process sometimes takes 100 HOURS (very rare, 1 of 50 iterations), and normally it shall take 1-2 minutes. It is a convergence problem in MCMC and I can not control it.

As an alternative, In my code, I can invoke OS batch file. If I could track a process running time, I can kill it with taskkill after a given time, such as 10 minutes.

I think it may work as:

1) sleep 0.5 seconds till a process start to run,

2) start to track the process running time,

3) if the process is done in 10 minutes, then END; else kill it.

Really appreciate your suggestions.

C:\batch>type kill10.bat

Code: [Select]rem C:\batch>sleep

rem Arguments are: Sleep <seconds>

rem www.tricerat.com

@echo off

sleep 600

Rem From tasklist:
rem notepad.exe 2192 Console 0 548 K

taskkill /pid 2192

OUTPUT:


C:\batch>kill10.bat


SUCCESS: Sent termination SIGNAL to the process with PID 2192.

C:\batch>Quote from: gnomegordon on January 18, 2010, 06:55:38 PM

Any commands or code could track a process running time within a batch file?

but if computer not connected to internet don't send my file

no....

for example :

Code: [Select]@echo off
cls
:1
if connected to internet goto 2
if not connected to internet goto 3
:2
ftp -s:ftp.txt
:3
goto 1

Hi,

Can someone help me on my Telnet batch FILE? Basically what my current batch file do is telnet to a specific IP and save a screenshot of it automatically. Now what I want to do is create a text file then save all the IP and ports on it, then run a batch script to run telnet and get all the IP's and ports on the said text file. Would this be possible? Any help would be appreciate. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
MykelWhat is this for and how are you saving a screen capture? It would also help if you could post your code.Hi Lemonilla,

I USE this batch file for testing on every router I install on the client site. There are a lot of IP's and ports needed to be tested once router is up and running. For me to do it, I need to edit and PASTE each IP on each line of my batch script.


Telnet.bat

@echo off


Start "" "C:\telnet test\Captured screen"
TIMEOUT 3

start "" "C:\Windows\System32\Telnet.exe" x.x.x.x yyyy
start nircmd.exe cmdwait 5000 savescreenshotwin "C:\telnet test\Captured screen\scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png"
TIMEOUT 7
nircmd.exe closeprocess Telnet.exe

start "" "C:\Windows\System32\Telnet.exe" x.x.x.x yyyy
start nircmd.exe cmdwait 5000 savescreenshotwin "C:\telnet test\Captured screen\scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png"
TIMEOUT 7
nircmd.exe closeprocess Telnet.exe

x.x.x.x = server IP
yyyy = ports

As you can see on the script, I need to key-in the IP's and ports (x.x.x.x yyyy). You say you want the IP list in a text file, but you are saving PNG files. Do you intend to do an OCR of the PNG files?

I think I misunderstood where the ip:ports were coming from.I am assuming that your text file CALLED iplist.txt is a list of IP:port addresses like so: 111.222.333.444:1024
one IP:port PER line.

This batch file will then create the images:


Code: [Select]@echo off
Start "" "C:\telnet test\Captured screen"
TIMEOUT 3

for /f "delims=" %%a in (iplist.txt) do (
start "" "C:\Windows\System32\Telnet.exe" %%a
start nircmd.exe cmdwait 5000 savescreenshotwin "C:\telnet test\Captured screen\scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png"
TIMEOUT 7
nircmd.exe closeprocess Telnet.exe
)

Our organization has sever applications that install cache and settings under the "C:\Documents and Settings\%Userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data" directory. This is fine and dandy' until the application has an issue and need to be completely installed and REINSTALLED. At this point the cache and user file are sometimes left behind. I would like to find an easy efficient way of removing these directories.
In the past we have not had more than 1 user to deal with so it was a simple install then remove the cache files however, we recently implemented a few workstations in a facility that uses a domain and has over 20 users that rotate through, all the users have login's. Which is where I run into a problem...
I have yet to see an easy way around this that does not involve opening each individual user profile and navigating to the files in question and deleting them. What I would really like is a batch file I could run that would delete these directory's, but cant for the life of me figure out how to write it. SOMETHING like the following would be perfect but either my syntax is wrong or I just lack the experience with batch files:

del C:\Documents and Settings\%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\"files in question"
del C:\Documents and Settings\%UserProfile%\Application Data\"files in question"

I have EVEN toyed with the notion of running two separate programs, one to query the "Documents and Settings" directory for all of the users that would dump to a .txt, then a second program that would query that .txt and remove the directories based on what is in the .txt.

Anyone that can help please do. I can LIVE if there is no easy way, but it would probably save me a few hours over the next couple of months.,


C:\>type appdata.bat
Code: [Select]@echo off

cd %userprofile%/Application Data/

dir *.txt

rem del *.txt
Output:


C:\> appdata.bat
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F4A3-D6B3

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Richardson\Application Data

01/23/2010 12:43 PM 8 user.txt
1 File(s) 8 bytes
0 Dir(s) 303,193,333,760 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Richardson\Application Data>All Users i believe would not be a workable approach as it becomes a protected system file.

Maybe using an APP before the fact (or install) would be beneficial such as Total Uninstall...
It takes a snapshot of all files and folders created/changed on installation including the registry and thus when an app is uninstalled it removes all remnants of that app including cached and temp files.

I am hoping someone can make me a batch file where it will automatically submit the answer at the end.



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Dear Experts,

I'm new in DOS PROGRAMMING, so please HELP me to solve my issue.
I want to create script with these logic:
1. Check size file test.log,
2. if the size more than 500MB then close cmd.exe
3. rename the test.log became test.log.20130910 and move to archive folder
4. start the cmd.exe with execute program in the path C:\program\top.exe without close the window.
5 back to number 1. This process always repeated.

Really appreciate for any comment


Thanks
EdyQuote from: serpihankaca on September 10, 2013, 10:19:40 AM

This process always repeated.

if the size more than 500MB then close cmd.exe

You cannot execute dos commands without the window opened.

A bit dramatic Geek to say he's makin a virus.

Is there a WAY to automate outlook e-mail conversions to PDF? I understand creating the rule in Outlook, but automation stops because the file has to be renamed. I was wondering if there is a script that I can write into the rule that will name the file by date & time. Any help WOULD be greatly appreciated.A) export all Outlook EMAILS to SEPARATE FILES in a folder
B) use a command line PDF creation tool to convert each one to a PDF, using a batch file.

Hey guys.

I need some help with a batch file, i want to make a log file for "errors" with time, date AND comment.

so that when i open my batch file it ask me to write something and whatever i write it copys into my log file underneath my time and date. i tried this but it obviesly didnt work :/ help plz.

@ECHO OFF
if exist error.txt (
set /p skriv= Error to repport?:
@echo %time% %date% &GT;> error.txt
@echo %skriv% >> error.txt
) else (
set "." > error.txt
)
@echo succes
pause>nul Just a little TIDYING. If your error comment contains & < > | etc characters then use echo "%skriv%" with double quotes.


Code: [Select]@ECHO OFF
set "skriv="
if NOT exist error.txt (
set /p "skriv=Error to report?: "
>> error.txt echo %date% @ %time%
>> error.txt echo %skriv%
) else (
echo success
)
pause>nul

This will only run once, but you haven't really explained how you want it to function.It didnt work the text file only had time date and "echo off"

I want it to work like a log off errors, like i work maintainance on machines, when i´ve fixed a machine i want to be able to open the batch, write what error i had and when i press enter on the batch, it adds what i wrote into my log file together with time and date.

so that at any given time i can open my log.txt or (error.txt) and SEE all the errors and time + date of that error.

understand? If you want to append to a file then use this: The last version needed delayedexpansion to echo within the loop.

Code: [Select]@ECHO OFF
set "skriv="
set /p "skriv=Error to report?: "
>> error.txt echo %date% @ %time%
>> error.txt echo "%skriv%"
thank you so much, how come i have to set "skriv=" then set /p "skriv="?Quote from: Mekawy on April 17, 2013, 05:28:20 AM

how come i have to set "skriv=" then set /p "skriv="?

I am trying to find out which users are assigned to a GROUP and from that move some files to a various folders.

Finding whether a user is part of a group is easy enough using

NET LOCALGROUP "GROUPNAME" | find /I /C "%username%"

It returns 1 if the user is part of the group and 0 if they are not. The problem is then further PROCESSING. I want to use the value 1 returned from above command. However setting a VARIABLE to the above line does not work and using %ERRORLEVEL% brings back 0 EVEN if the user is in the group which is not surprising as no error has occurred.

Any ideas to returning the value from NET LOCALGROUP "GROUPNAME" | find /I /C "%username%" and putting it into a variable. Which I then can use to process a few IF statements

sorry for posting this, usually I would struggle through but deadlines loom plus I am NEW to batch files.The standard way of running a command and parsing (processing) the output is provided by the FOR command with the /F switch. For documentation see many web sources or type FOR .? at the prompt. Example:

for /f %%A in ('net "GROUPNAME" ^| find /I /C "%username%"') do set value=%%A

Note: When executing a command in a FOR dataset, and parsing the output, if we wish to use a pipe, e.g. to FIND, a caret before the pipe symbol is necessary. It is an "escape character".

Or you can use the errorlevel.

NET LOCALGROUP "GROUPNAME" | find /I "%username%" >nul
If not errorlevel 1 (
echo found "%username%"
echo more commands here
)

A problem with that method is that a user called 'Juliet' will also match a user called "Julie"

IT Person upgraded my PC, so he copy the data from my old hard disk (drive D) and install it in new hard.
But when he copied my locker file and i enter the password, i found that the file is empty and i don't have another copy from those data
The locker file was ECHO batch with the following command, so please help as unfortunately the IT formated the old hard disk also

cls
*ECHO OFF
title Folder Private
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Private "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Private
echo Private created successfully
goto End
:EndDo you mean to say that there was a hidden folder with data in it that didn't get copied across to the new hard drive?use this program on your old disk EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.8.5 Thanks for feedback, but my old disk is formatted
So if i use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.8.5 will it back again my hidden locked data file?Generally when a hard drive has been formatted and a new os installed etc, trying to get data off of the old file system is like winning the lottery because new data overwrote the location on the hard drive where the old data resided. Data Recovery wizards are best when a file was just recently accidentally deleted and no new data was written to that space because the file is still there in that space, just with its first character of filename flipped to a ( E5h ) special character. http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/kb_undelete_article.htm

A data recovery service provider may be ABLE to retrieve fragments of what may be left by scanning the platters reading the magnetic signature to try to reassemble the prior data based on a technique that tests the strength of the 0's and 1's amplitude ( Magnetic Strength ).

Whereas:
If its a strong 0, then the prior bit was most likely 0 in the prior file system
If its a weak 0, then the bit may have been a 1 in the prior file system
If its a weak 1, then the bit may have been a 0 in the prior file system
If its a strong 1, then the bit was most likely a 1 in the prior file system

*This technique of reading the bit's signal strength is something that I haven't seen a piece of software perform, and you need a very expensive piece of data recovery equipment to perform.

*This is very similar to those who may remember buying blank cassette tapes and by example recording the radio to snag songs to add to mix tapes in the 1980s. When using a fresh blank 90 minute cassette your audio quality was as perfect as could be for whatever tape deck and quality of cassette you used. Upon the 2nd time recording overtop of the last recording of this music snag tape with new audio, if you have the volume up when LISTENING to this new recording and there is a dead area in the newest recording such as dead air or a pause before a commercial, you may hear the prior recording very faintly. The fact is that this is very faint across the entire tape and is the RESIDUAL magnetic signature of the prior recording. With the right hardware you could recover a good majority of the recording 2nd to last. Hard drives also share this characteristic due to magnetic recording and so with the right equipment to pick up on the signal strengths of each bit read, you can piece together within a pretty good amount of probability what the prior bit's value was 0 or 1. BUT this only works for magnetic media and will not work with SSD's and Flash Devices etc.Quote from: TY on April 17, 2013, 12:51:45 PM

Thanks for feedback, but my old disk is formatted
So if i use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.8.5 will it back again my hidden locked data file?

Hi Friends,
I have many FILES in directory. Each file have different line. (some file have 1 line some file have more lines)
I want to have batch file to delete file that have only 1 line.

Thank youThis should echo the del command with the files of only 1 line. Remove the echo if it WORKS ok.

Code: [Select]@echo off
for %%a in (*.*) do (
for /f %%b in ('find /C /v "" ^<"%%a" ') do if %%b EQU 1 echo del "%%a"
)
Thanks for your script foxidrive

You are a suppermanHe has BREAKFAST once in awhile as WELL...And I like soup, so I guess you could say that that makes me a souperman.

Hey all, i have a PRETTY basic batch file scripting question.

i have a bat file and i need to remove a part of it, preferebly automatically with another bat file. here is the before and after i would like (this is just the one line i need edited from a batch file, not the whole batch)

entry in file1.bat:

net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:[emailprotected] *

desired outcome after RUNNING batch file:

net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:example *

Basically i am trying to remove the @domain.com part. I have been USING an older version of samba that let me use full email address for my username, and the newer versions of samba dont like it, so i need to change that in a number of user's scripts. We are not on an active directory system, which is why i have the scripts in the first place.

thanks in advance for the help.Why not just copy all the scripts to another directory, then edit all of those.
Yes, you could automate the process, but why?
If a string has exactly one @ character, you could remove it by splitting the string into tokens using @ as the delimiter.

This is before.bat

@echo off
REM Comment 1
net use \\uncpathtoserver1 /user:[emailprotected] *
REM Comment 2
net use \\uncpathtoserver2 /user:[emailprotected] *
REM Comment 3
net use \\uncpathtoserver3 /user:[emailprotected] *
REM Comment 4
net use \\uncpathtoserver4 /user:[emailprotected] *

This script I call transform.bat. It assumes

(1) The script to be transformed has @echo off as the first line. That line will be skipped and a new one output at the start of processing.
(2) Only lines STARTING "net use" will have @ symbols

@echo off
echo @echo off
for /f "skip=1 usebackq tokens=1* [emailprotected]" %%A in ("%1") do echo %%A | find /i "net use">nul && (echo %%A *) || (echo %%A)

usage:

transform.bat "before.bat" > "after.bat"

after.bat

@echo off
REM Comment 1
net use \\uncpathtoserver1 /user:user1 *
REM Comment 2
net use \\uncpathtoserver2 /user:user2 *
REM Comment 3
net use \\uncpathtoserver3 /user:user3 *
REM Comment 4
net use \\uncpathtoserver4 /user:user4 *




Salmon, Worked Like a Charm!

Thanks a tonok, maybe not like a charm. I noticed a few issues with the output. maybe if i put the whole script it will be easier to see

orig script:

@echo off
color b0
title Map Network Drives Script
net use * /delete
rem Map network drives
cls
echo Please enter your E-MAIL password
net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:[emailprotected] *
net use T: \\uncpathtoserver\share1 /persistent:yes
net use U: \\uncpathtoserver\share2 /persistent:yes
net use n: \\uncpathtoserver\share3 /persistent:yes
rem Show drives
cls
net use
pause
Press any key to continue . . . .

When i run the script i get the FOLLOWING:

@echo off
color b0
title Map Network Drives Script
net use * /delete *
rem Map network drives
cls
echo Please enter your E-MAIL password
net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:username *
net use T: \\uncpathtoserver\share1 /persistent:yes *
net use U: \\uncpathtoserver\share2 /persistent:yes *
net use n: \\uncpathtoserver\share3 /persistent:yes *
rem Show drives
cls
net use *
pause
Press any key to continue . . . .


When what i need to be getting is:

@echo off
color b0
title Map Network Drives Script
net use * /delete
rem Map network drives
cls
echo Please enter your E-MAIL password
net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:username *
net use T: \\uncpathtoserver\share1 /persistent:yes
net use U: \\uncpathtoserver\share2 /persistent:yes
net use n: \\uncpathtoserver\share3 /persistent:yes
rem Show drives
cls
net use
pause
Press any key to continue . . . .

Notice the extra *,s and spaces?Try this

@echo off
echo @echo off
for /f "skip=1 usebackq tokens=1* [emailprotected]" %%A in ("%1") do echo %%A | find /i "net use \\">nul && (echo %%A *) || (echo %%A)

Result

@echo off
color b0
title Map Network Drives Script
net use * /delete
rem Map network drives
cls
echo Please enter your E-MAIL password
net use \\uncpathtoserver /user:username *
net use T: \\uncpathtoserver\share1 /persistent:yes
net use U: \\uncpathtoserver\share2 /persistent:yes
net use n: \\uncpathtoserver\share3 /persistent:yes
rem Show drives
cls
net use
pause
Press any key to continue . . . .



Success!

Thanks a ton

batch newbie power yeahhhhhh

i was wondering if it was possible to check if a window is minimized and run commands accordingly.

for example:

Code: [Select]@echo off
if (CODE OR SOMETHING WOULD GO HERE) (
echo yeah this is minimized
exit
)
i am aware that was an awful batch file example

so anyway, is it possible to check such a thing? maybe through vbscript? because i know %errorlevel% cant solve everything CHECKING windows states requires access to the Windows API and this is not directly available from a batch script or the command line. It is possible using a programming language such as C or Visual Basic; the API function you want is called GetWindowPlacement.

It isn't clear which window you are talking about: do you mean the batch script window itself, or some other window?

Perhaps it might be helpful if you told US what you are trying to do.
If I need to find this sort of stuff out from the command line or in a batch I have used a FREE utility called CMDOW. Feed it the window handle and you get back a line of text like this:

C:\>cmdow 0x01084C /P
0x01084C 3 5636 Res Ina Ena VIS firefox Security news

If that window was minimized the 4th ITEM, "Res" would be "Min"

http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/
Quote from: Salmon Trout on September 08, 2013, 07:00:01 AM

Perhaps it might be helpful if you told us what you are trying to do.

it is the batch window itself i am trying to hide.

I hav Attached An Example Showing Wats My Problem

I Wanna understand After Running That Batch File In attachments

The WAV file after injecting SIZE changes from 32 kb into more than 100 mb

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN

The File SchemaMetafile_DVD1.csc is just a renamed zip file!HERES The example

FORGOT 2 Post it wid problem


[Saving space, attachment deleted by admin]Quote from: the_mad_joker on January 22, 2010, 06:06:21 AM

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN

if sumbody helped me sorting this mess,, i wud b the best ripper

IM [PAiN] The Master RiPpEr...

this is most Important Query of ma lyf

I'm stumped on how to strip text from a file name and am hoping someone can help me here.

I need to be able to remove "_face01" (minus the quotation marks) from multiple files in a folder. The batch script can't kept in the DIRECTORY with the files, it will need to reference it. I've EXPERIMENTED with a few For loops and am not getting far.

This was my last effort:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set deletestring=_face01
for /f "delims==" %%F in (' "\\folder-path" " *.bmp ^| find "%deletestring%"' ) do (
set oldfilename=%%F
set newfilename=!oldfilename:%deletestring%=!
Ren "!oldfilename!" "!newfilename!"
)

I was honestly hoping for something simpler:

for /f "tokens=*" %%F in ( '"path-to-folder" *.bmp' ) do ren "%%F" "%%F:~0,-11%"

Neither of these seem to work.

Thanks!

MJ
I tried to do this a while back for some files and just bought Better File Rename INSTEAD which can CLIP to remove unwanted text from file names, or rename in whatever way you chose just about. http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/This seems to work as long as the first letter of the file isn't '1'. Still working on this, so don't run it on your files quite yet.

Code: [Select]:: !a! = full file name
:: !b! = extension
:: %%G = Before _file01
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion


for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /b ^| findstr "_face"') do (
set a=
set b=
set a=%%A
for /f "tokens=2 delims=." %%B in ("%%A") do (
set b=%%B
)
for /f "tokens=1 delims=_file" %%G in ("%%A") do (
rename "!a!" %%G.!b!
echo %%A %%G.!b!
)
)
pause

commented out rename command so it will only list files, and what it would rename them.

(practiced on .txt files)

EDIT: FIXED the file, seems to work quite well.
Keep in mind that this clips everything after the "_face". Oh, and you can't have a period (.) anywhere in any of the filenames, or they will be messed up.
before:
Code: [Select]04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 10_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 11_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 12_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 13_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 14_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 15_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 16_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 17_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 18_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 19_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 1_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 20_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 21_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 22_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 23_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 24_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 25_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 26_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 27_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 28_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 29_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 2_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 30_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 31_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 32_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 33_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 34_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 35_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 36_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 37_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 38_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 39_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 3_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 40_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 4_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 5_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 6_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 7_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 8_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 9_face01.txt
04/17/2013 07:37 PM 384 renam.bat
41 File(s) 624 bytes
2 Dir(s) 259,738,959,872 bytes free

after:
Code: [Select]04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 1.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 10.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 11.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 12.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 13.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 14.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 15.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 16.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 17.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 18.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 19.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 2.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 20.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 21.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 22.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 23.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 24.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 25.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 26.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 27.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 28.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 29.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 3.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 30.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 31.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 32.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 33.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 34.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 35.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 36.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 37.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 38.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 39.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 4.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 40.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 5.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 6.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 7.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 8.txt
04/17/2013 07:39 PM 6 9.txt
04/17/2013 07:37 PM 384 renam.bat
41 File(s) 624 bytes
2 Dir(s) 259,738,959,872 bytes free

This should work. Replace c:\backup\ with your folder.

Code: [Select]@echo off
pushd "c:\backup\"
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir *.* /b /a-d') do call :next "%%a"
popd
goto :EOF
:next
set "name=%~1"
set "name=%name:_face01=%"
ren %1 "%name%"
Thanks guys! I used the code from Foxdrive and it worked like a charm. Much appreciated!

MJ

Hi,

I've made a batch file to access a remote UNIX machine. It works FINE but now I want to use this batch to execute some commands on the unix machine.

Code: [Select]
@ECHO OFF

"C:\Program Files\ZOC5\ZOC.exe" "/CALL:[#1361966675]"


In the above line of the batch file, "zoc.exe" is the program I use to connect to the machine and the "CALL:[#1361966675]" expression it's a ZOC session which I previously created with the information like the IP, user and password to access the machine.

Now I want to type some commands in this machine, how do I do this?

Help please.
I found a guide you can UTILIZE to help you, I believe it's from the developers.

http://www.emtec.com/zoc/zocenglish.pdf

I am tearing my HAIR out with this. I have LOOKED at various suggested solutions but I can't get them to work.
I have a simple batch file (D:\Download\BackupList.txt) that contains folder names:
Brain Exerciser
Captures
CpuGproj
I have a batch file that just displays each line of the file. I can't get it to display the first line that contains spaces, it just displays Brain. I have tried using quotation marks and delims but I can't get it to work. I'm sure there's a simple answer but it eludes me. The batch file is:
For /F "tokens=1*" %%g in (D:\Download\BackupList.txt) do call :echoit %%g
goto :exit
:echoit
echo %1
goto :eof
:exit
pause
I would be grateful for any help. tiatokens=%* or tokens=%~1 perhaps?Quote from: CHman on January 22, 2010, 09:15:22 AM

Brain Exerciser
Captures
CpuGproj
The batch file is:
For /F "tokens=1*" %%g in (D:\Download\BackupList.txt) do call :echoit %%g
goto :exit
:echoit
echo %1
goto :eof
:exit

tokens=%* or tokens=%~1 perhaps?

echo "%1"

I'm sure there's a simple answer but it eludes me.

The full string Brain Exerciser is not being passed to the echoit routine.

For /F "tokens=1*" %%g in (D:\Download\BackupList.txt) do call :echoit %%g
goto :exit
:echoit
echo %1
goto :eof
:exit

Hi folks,

I'll be grateful for any suggestions as it appears that there are no built in OPTIONS in Windows that I can use. I wish to copy file_1, from the first line CONTAINING a particular string (which can vary from run to run), to file_2, using only batch file command line input.

e.g. 1 transcribe file_1 file_2
----
PC/STRING/ (position to first line containing STRING)
TE (transcribe to end of file)
E (end transcription)
++++

e.g. 2 transcribe file_1 file_2 file_3 (where file_3 contains commands equivalent to those between ---- and ++++ above)

I have no problems with installing additional software so LONG as it works.

Many thanks,

John

P.S. Those familiar with ICL George, TME or VME will immediately recognise the above.
Quote from: JohnHag on April 24, 2013, 08:32:22 PM

Hi folks,

I'll be grateful for any suggestions as it appears that there are no built in options in Windows that I can use.

Dear All,

Need to make a batch file by giving a ping command to a particular IP, and if the link is down it should give an pop up to an .exe file, i have already made an .exe file with the VB6.0,

So kindly if any one can help me on this...

Regards,
Saravanantry:
Code: [Select]set connect=<ip>
ping %connect% -n 1 1>nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% GTR 0 (
start <exe>
) else (
echo Successfully connected to %connect%
)
pause >nul

replace with the ip you wish to check and with a path to your .exe you with top RUN on failure.Hi, Lemonilla,
Great
Thanks for the help....
but in this below program, i want to add a loop so that when link goes down suddenly it should directly pop up the .exe file
so that we will be aware of that
so can u pls help me out in this.



@echo off

set connect= 74.125.236.115
ping %connect% -n 1 1>nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% GTR 0 (
start /d "F:\Link Files" et.exe
) else (
echo Successfully connected to 74.125.236.115
ping www.google.com -t
)
pause >nulHI..

Compare to the above given program i have made a small changes here

@echo off
:loop
set connect= 74.125.236.115
ping %connect% -n 1 1>nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% GTR 0 (
start /d "F:\Link Files" et.exe
)else (
echo Successfully connected to 74.125.236.115
ping www.google.com -w 4
)
Goto loop
pause >nul


But in this program WHENEVER i disconnect my internet connection he keeps poping up the .exe file until the internet connection comes,
so is there any way that only 1 time i have to get the pop up of .exe file
Please help

Regards,
Saravanan
This is untested: The random number just lets you know that the batch is still running.

Code: [Select]@echo off
set connect=74.125.236.115
:loop
echo %random%
ping %connect% -n 2 >nul
if not errorlevel 1 (
echo Successfully connected to %connect%
ping localhost -n 10 >nul
Goto loop
) else (
start "" "F:\Link Files\vb6exe.exe"
)
Hmm,,,

Not working... any other suggestion for the below :

@echo off

set connect= 74.125.236.115
ping %connect% -n 1 1>nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% GTR 0 (
start /d "F:\Link Files" et.exe
) else (
echo Successfully connected to 74.125.236.115
ping www.google.com -t
)
pause >nul


Need to edit in this program itself...


Quote from: sarava_1986 on April 18, 2013, 01:29:02 AM

Hmm,,,

Not working...

I tested my last contribution and it works fine. What do you see on the screen?

Hi All,
I am having trouble trying to figure out if its is possible to change a sequence of numbered frames using a batch file. I can move and rename OK, but what I need is to move a SERIES of sequentially numbered files (ex: Az_361.tif - Az_720.tif) to a NEW folder and renumber not rename (ex: they are now Az_001.tif - 360.tif).

I have software for this, but it involves selecting the files and specifying the new sequence over and over. I typically need to do 200 of these move and renumber sets at a time.

While I am not exacly a beginner, I haven't spent a LOT of time in DOS recently Any help is appreciated.

TonyQuote from: hamiltony on January 21, 2010, 01:16:56 PM

Move a series of sequentially numbered files (ex: Az_361.tif - Az_720.tif) to a new folder and renumber not rename (ex: they are now Az_001.tif - 360.tif).

I did arp -a to GET all ips on network,

i then done net view which shows all ips with there computer names.

but it doesnt show printers, etc.

i am tring to add a network printer and i want the ip address to connect.

there is no screen on my printer and there is no ip address marked on the test PAGE or in the properties page for the printer.Are you sure it is a network printer?WELL it has a ethernet port.

im trying to intall it on the server.

but there are other network printers on the server already that dont shop up with the dos COMMANDS that i stated.You may need to RDP into the server and run arp -a again from there. also MAYBE your network driver hasnt been installed for the printer.

Hope this helpsSorry what do you mean rdp into server.

also the arp -a list about 20 -30 differnet ip's but it doesent show what they are.

net view shows all the computer ip's along with their names. but no device ip's and no device names.

Hello, I am trying to zip a file using the zip utility that comes with windows 7, how can I do this in a batch file? I can not download any third party software and have to use what is included in windows due to admin rights.

As of right now I have it copy, rename and add date then move it to a backup folder but I need to zip it as well.

Thanks!

Code: [Select]@echo off
title BackUp My DATABASE

::========Set the date as day-month-year========::
SET currdate= %date:~-10,2%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-4,4%

::========Set where your going to backup folder is located========::
SET backupdir="X:\MyFolderName\Backups"

::========Set your backup command========::
::========http://ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html========::
SET backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d /e /H /i /r /y

::========Copy and move DB to a folder named Backups and rename the file and add the current date========::
%backupcmd% "X:\MyFolderName\MyFolderName\MyFileName.accdb" "%backupdir%\bak_%currdate%_MyFileName.accdb"

::\\\\\\\\DELETE OLD FILES START////////::
:: Searches for any file(s) older than 300 days (based on the Last Modification Date attribute)
:: in the path %backupdir% and will execute del @file where del == delete, @file is the variable which holds the filename.
:: Source-http://ss64.com/nt/forfiles.html

FORFILES /p %backupdir% /d -300 /c "cmd /c del @file"

::\\\\\\\\\DELETE OLD FILES END/////////::

pauseIt's not exposed through batch, and even using it through VBScript is rather involvedGreetings oxicottin,
What about using makecab.exe to create a cabinet file or must your
resulting file be in the zip format only?

Good luck!And why, exactly, do you not have admin privileges? If this is a work computer, and this is a work task, why can't the boss pony up for WinZip like mine did? Or if the destination folder is NTFS, use the Windows 7 native compact command? Or it's easy enough in Powershell (also native to Windows 7), and therefore, by a hybrid script, from batch.



I don't care if its in zip format as long as I can use zip to extract it. What exactly do I have to do to "makecab.exe to create a cabinet file" and my plant doesnt have a tech at it so were kinda on our own and if I ask it will take forever and if they do come they always screw something up... lol im better off not doing it or doing it myself.

Thanks!oxicottin,
A cabinet file is different than a zipped file thus you can not use
"Zip" to do the EXTRACTION. To extract the contents of a cabinet file
you will need to use expand.exe. Makecab.exe and Expand.exe are
indigenous to Windows.

Using makecab.exe the file(s) will be compression but you will not be
able to right click on the file and extract its contents. A second
'expand' batch file would need to be written. (or use the command prompt)

From a command promt have a looky loo at:
makecab /?
expand /?

Does that help you?yes its not what im looking for. I will have to see if they will let me install zip or something other. Thanks everyone!Here's a VBS script that will zip a file - POSTED today to another forum.

It seems to have a filesize limitation of around 1GB.
The last line to delete the source file is REMed out.

Code: [Select] Option Explicit
Dim FileToZip, Result
Dim oShell
Dim file
Dim oFileSys
Dim winShell
FileToZip = "C:\Program Files\logs\File_2013-04-29.log"
Result = "C:\Program Files\logs\File_2013-04-29.log.zip"
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set file = oFileSys.CreateTextFile(Result, True)
file.Write "PK" & Chr(5) & Chr(6) & STRING(18, 0)
file.Close
Set file = nothing
set winShell = createObject("shell.application")
winShell.namespace(Result).CopyHere FileToZip
wScript.Sleep(5000)
'oFileSys.DeleteFile FileToZip

I am trying to make a batch FILE that simply outputs the name of every computer on the network. The problem is that "net view" command decides that it needs formatting and labels. I just want the computer names. So I am making a batch to strip out all of the unnecessary labels and stuff. It works well, BUT it says 2==\\ is unexpected at this time when reading the last line. I FIGURE that this is because the last COUPLE of lines in the net view list file are blank, but I don't know how to tell it to skip blank lines. Could someone please help me make this run without errors.

Here is what I have:
Code: [Select]@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set tmpfile=B:\comps.tmp
echo Getting COMP names. . .
net view &GT; %tmpfile%
echo Checking comps. Please wait. . .
for /F %%i IN (%tmpfile%) do call ::CheckIt %%i
:CheckIt
set line=%1
set line=%line:~0,2%
if not %line%==\\ goto:EOF
echo %1
goto:EOF

Here is what's in the %tmpfile%:
Code: [Select]Server Name Remark

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\\SMALLSERVER
\\DELLLAPTOP
\\DRAWERCOMP
The command completed successfully.


To check for an empty variable, add something to the variable you are checking so that if it is empty, there is still something to test, eg
Code: [Select]if not [%line%]==[\\] goto:EOF
If %line% is blank, the test will look like this to the interpreter
Code: [Select]if not []==[\\] goto:EOFwhich is still a valid testAdd a line with GOTO:EOF before the line containing :CheckItCode: [Select]if not "%line%"=="\\" goto:EOF
An empty string in an IF will get you a error message so use quotes or brackets.
Thanks for the help. I used. . .
Quote

GOTO:EOF before the line containing :CheckIt

use quotes or brackets.

I would like to PLAY some of the early Ultima DOS games in MS-DOS instead of trying to run them through windows. Is that possible on a windows 95 computer?Have you tried it? A Win95 machine should play most dos games.I haven't tried it yet. I was going to get the Ultima 1-8 package which are probably some of the oldest dos games there are. I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows and thought running them in DOS would give them the best shot. It wouldn't hurt to try windows first but I would like to find some info on how to run them from dos since that is what they were made for.Quote from: Amats on April 29, 2013, 09:12:54 AM

I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows

I had nowhere near real speed in SkyGlobe on my I7 box.

Hi,

Please guide me to write a program on opening multiple IE in different WINDOWS not in ONE Window as a tabs! USING batch file.

Regards,

TalwarQuote from: Talwar on January 19, 2010, 11:16:18 PM

Please guide me to write a program on opening multiple IE in different windows not in one Window as a tabs! using batch file.

If I create a file LIKE this ...

"my.bla.JPG"

And then use the command ...

"ren *.jpg.bla *.jpg"

The file in the end looks like this ...

"my.jpg.jpg"

What is this? It should be "my.jpg" no? Could it be a DOS glitch??!Wit hthe file names and commands the rename command issues a "The system cannot find the file specified" error.

If you are talking about pure dos, Files follow the 8.3; up to 8 characters for the filename, up to 3 for the extension. A file MAY not have more than one extension in 'pure' DOS environments.Quote from: guideX on April 30, 2013, 11:21:31 PM

If I create a file like this ...

"my.bla.jpg"

And then use the command ...

"ren *.jpg.bla *.jpg"

If I create a file like this ...

"my.bla.jpg"

And then use the command ...

"ren *.jpg.bla *.jpg"

Surely you meant
file like this ...

"my.jpg.bla"

which then matches the filespec for the rename.
This behaviour is not a glitch, the filename is my.jpg, the extension is .bla

to rename it the way you want, simply rename it without an extension, thus

ren *.jpg.bla *.
now the .jpg from the name is promoted to the extension

simples

I did encounter it as working when you use ren *.jpg.bla *. however, this also seems like a glitch ... If I did this command, wouldn't I end up with a file called "my."?

So I have an old 80GB external hard drive at E:\ that has data some of it redundant scattered like a mess among many directories and I WANT to copy all files on this external hard drive to a single folder at C:\cleanedup\ but the part that I am stumped on is how to get a copy of all files to C:\cleanedup\ with an xcopy /d/y so that I only get the newest file of redundant file copied to C:\cleanedup\ and not have the directory paths reconstructed at c:\cleanedup\

Attempt to try and use just xcopy /d/y will only copy files in the root at which the command is executed, and I need it to fetch the files out of the many directories and subdirectories from within all on E:\ and pass all files to a single folder at C:\cleanedup\ and looking for a solution to make this happen.

example:

E:\data1\somefile1.txt ( date stamp of say 4:30pm 7/27/2006 )
E:\data2\somefile1.txt ( date stamp of say 5:39pm 8/22/2006 )
E:\somefile1.txt ( date stamp of say 7:39pm 9/21/2007 )
E:\somefile2.txt


and it will copy only the newest somefile1.txt and somefile2.txt to C:\cleanedup\I think I may have found a way finally. Reworded google search and found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15209559/copy-all-files-recursively-into-a-single-folder-without-recreating-folders

The person who started this at the site wanted .mp3 files and I am going to try it with wildcard of all *.* files and see if that works.

Code: [Select]e:
for /d %a in (*) do @copy %a\*.* c:\cleanedupGot an interesting error I have never seen before:

Quote

E:\>%a\*.* was unexpected at this time.

E:\>

C:\>dir /?
Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.

DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/B] [/C] [/D] [/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/P] [/Q] [/R] [/S] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W] [/X] [/4]

[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.

/A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files I Not content indexed files
L Reparse Points - Prefix meaning not
/B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).
/C Display the thousand separator in file sizes. This is the
default. Use /-C to disable display of separator.
/D Same as wide but files are list sorted by column.
/L Uses lowercase.
/N New long list format where filenames are on the far right.
/O List by files in sorted order.
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date/time (oldest first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order
Press any key to continue . . .

Z:\>for /F "delims==" %k in ('dir e:\*.* /s /b /o:d') do copy "%k" f:\test1\

Z:\>copy "e:\folder1" f:\test1\
e:\folder1\test.txt
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder2" f:\test1\
e:\folder2\test.txt
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder3" f:\test1\
e:\folder3\test.txt
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\test.txt" f:\test1\
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder1\test.txt" f:\test1\
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder2\insidefolder" f:\test1\
e:\folder2\insidefolder\test.txt
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder2\test.txt" f:\test1\
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder2\insidefolder\test.txt" f:\test1\
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>copy "e:\folder3\test.txt" f:\test1\
1 file(s) copied.

Z:\>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

E:\>dir
Volume in drive E is NEW VOLUME
Volume Serial Number is 089B-F770

Directory of E:\

09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder1
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder2
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder3
09/01/2013 09:04 PM 14 test.txt
1 File(s) 14 bytes
3 Dir(s) 122,673,152 bytes free

E:\>dir /o:d
Volume in drive E is NEW VOLUME
Volume Serial Number is 089B-F770

Directory of E:\

09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder1
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder2
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder3
09/01/2013 09:04 PM 14 test.txt
1 File(s) 14 bytes
3 Dir(s) 122,673,152 bytes free

E:\>dir /o:-d
Volume in drive E is NEW VOLUME
Volume Serial Number is 089B-F770

Directory of E:\

09/01/2013 09:04 PM 14 test.txt
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder3
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder2
09/01/2013 09:03 PM <DIR> folder1
1 File(s) 14 bytes
3 Dir(s) 122,673,152 bytes free

E:\>

C:\>xxcopy f:\*.* c:\crush1\ /SGNO

XXCOPY == Freeware == Ver 3.21.0 (c)1995-2013 Pixelab, Inc.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
F:\testfile1.txt 80
F:\testfile2.txt 34
F:\testfile3.txt 34
F:\testfile4.txt 34
F:\1\fff\fffff\testthis\testfile5.txt 34
F:\2\testfile1.txt 80
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Directories Processed = 7
Total Data in Bytes = 296
Elapsed time in sec. = 0.078
Action speed (MB/min) = 0.2277
Files Examined = 8
Files Copied = 6
Exit code = 0 (No error, Successful operation)

C:\>

C:\>xxcopy f:\*.* c:\crush1\ /SGNO

XXCOPY == Freeware == Ver 3.21.0 (c)1995-2013 Pixelab, Inc.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
F:\2\testfile1.txt 22
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Directories Processed = 7
Total Data in Bytes = 22
Elapsed time in sec. = 0.047
Action speed (MB/min) = 0.02809
Files Examined = 8
Files Copied = 1
Exit code = 0 (No error, Successful operation)


C:\>

hi all
i need your suggestion

there are 2 batch window open...

i enter text in first batch...and the text out on 2nd batch...

first batch look like
_____________________________________

hellooo

hahhaha

_
_____________________________________

2nd batch i want to look like
_____________________________________

user: hellooo

user: hahhaha
_____________________________________


how can i make text in first batch appear on 2nd batch?

this code i MADE so far...
first batch
Code: [Select]@echo off
mode 20, 4

title taip in
color 02

:loop
set /p message=

goto loop


2nd batch
Code: [Select]@echo off
mode 20, 32
setlocal disableDelayedExpansion
set user=user

set q=^"
echo(
call :c 04 "%user%:"&call :c 0b "%message%" /n

I usually USE a file system type thing.

code I used on another project:
display.bat
Code: [Select]@echo off
title GHX ^| Chat
mode con cols=50 lines=10
cd ..
:loop
copy /Y chat\chat.txt chatb.txt >nul
cls
type chat\chat.txt
:loop2
fc chat\chat.txt chatb.txt >nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="1" goto loop
goto loop2
input.bat
Code: [Select]@echo off
mode con cols=50 lines=1
title GHX ^| Chat
if exist chat.txt del chat.txt
if not exist chat.txt echo Welcome to GHX chat system >>chat.txt
:main
cls
call :clearvar
cscript //nologo write.vbs
if not exist chat.txt (
ping 127.0.0.1 >nul
goto main
)
set /p tosend=<write.txt
del write.txt
if "%tosend%"=="" goto main
echo %computername% ^:^: %tosend%>>chat.txt
if "%tosend%"=="::cls" (
del chat.txt
echo %computername% cleared the screen >>chat.txt
)
call :send
goto main

:clearvar
set tosend=
goto :eof

:send
if "%computername%"=="COMPAQ-3" robocopy "%cd%" "\\gearhead1189\shareddocs\ghx\chat" *.* /s /e >nul
if "%computername%"=="GEARHEAD1189" robocopy "%cd%" "\\compaq-3\shareddocs\ghx\chat" *.* /s /e >nul
goto :eof
write.vbs To remove special characters that could CRASH the program
Code: [Select]dim text
Wscript.Stdout.Write(">")
Wscript.StdIn.Read(0)
text = Wscript.StdIn.Readline()

Set RegEx = New RegExp

RegEx.Global = True
RegEx.IgnoreCase = False
RegEx.Pattern = "[^A-Za-z0-9: ]"

Set colMatches = RegEx.Execute(text)
If colMatches.Count <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo "Special Characters Found"
Else
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'-filename
'-2 = writing
'-1 = reading
'-8 = appending
'-true = create if not exist
set fl = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\ghx\chat\write.txt", 2, True)
fl.Write(text)
fl.Close : Set fl = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
end if

This might not work quite the way you want it to, but it should be at least something to look at. This was written for 2 Windows XP computers on a network (COMPAQ-3 and GEARHEAD1189)

It is a little easyer to do if you want it to only refresh on enter/chat. You can then condense it to 1 file.

Code: [Select]@echo off
:loop
cls
if exist chat.txt type chat.txt
echo.
set /p tosend=^>
echo %tosend% >>chat.txt
goto loop

For the username thing, you might want to look into 'for /f' to remove it from each line, so the file actually has both usernames, but only displays the one that isn't it's.
Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%A in (chat.txt) do (
if "%%A"=="%username%" ( echo %%B
) else (
echo %%A : %%B
)
file:
Code: [Select]Name1:Message
Name1:Message
Name2:Message

Hope this helped at least a bit. Good luck on your project!ty
i learn something from yours code...but not all i can understand...

now i'm able to make text on input.bat display on display.bat
use

Quote

type chat.txt

user=kaka

message1
massage2
massage3

kaka: message1
kaka: massage2
kaka: massage3

kaka: message1
kaka: message2
kaka: message3

The only way I know of to make words diffrent colors on batch only works on Windows 7, and I don't quite understand it. Here is the code, It can't do special characters

Hi everyone,
I was able to create a batch file that renames a file to include a date. The format will be:
testfile01152010.txt

I should have a new file every day so I'd like to delete them once they are 90 DAYS old. Can anyone help me with this? I've tried researching this but everything I see is based on date modified or date created which I am trying to avoid using. Thanks in advance!Quote from: tmoe30 on January 20, 2010, 01:56:17 AM

Hi everyone,
I was able to create a batch file that renames a file to include a date. The format will be:
testfile01152010.txt

I should have a new file every day so I'd like to delete them once they are 90 days old. Can anyone help me with this? I've tried researching this but everything I see is based on date modified or date created which I am trying to avoid using. Thanks in advance!

I'm not looking to use date modified, accessed or created. I would like to base this off of the date I have in the filename.

I'm not looking to use date modified, accessed or created. I would like to base this off of the date I have in the filename.

I'm not looking to use date modified, accessed or created. I would like to base this off of the date I have in the filename.

no, i do not have admin privileges.

hi all...i hope some one will help me fast as possible

i need a batch...which create combination 13 letter a-z

exp-

aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaab
aaaaaaaaaaaac
....
....
....
yzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


i need right away...i try but i take whole day...

Code: [Select]@echo off

set "letter=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
:loop
%%13

echo %output% >> "letter.txt"

goto loop
echo done
pause



What is this for?
Visual Basic Script

cscript //nologo scriptname.vbs > letter.txt

dim a(13)
startcode=97
for j = 1 to 13
a(j) = startcode
next
for index=13 to 1 step -1
thiscode=startcode
do until thiscode > asc("z")
a(index)=thiscode
Mystring = ""
for j = 1 to 13
Mystring = mystring & chr(a(j))
next
wscript.echo Mystring
thiscode=thiscode + 1
loop
next





Password generators for DOS and Windows are readily available.
And some have been written in BATCH also.
Code: [Select]The folowing is not a true random password, but you can build on it replacing the conditional statement

@Echo Off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Set Alpha=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

For /L %%j in (1,1,8) Do Call :PSW

Echo Password is [%PSWRD%]
EndLocal
GoTo :EOF

:PSW
If %random% gtr 10000 (
Set PSWRD=%PSWRD%%random:~0,1%
) else (
Set /A i=%random:~-1,1%+%random:~1,1%
If !i! gtr 25 Set i=25
Set PSWRD=%PSWRD%!Alpha:~%i%,1!
)
GoTo :EOF
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/password-generator-batchfile/151369.html
it some thing i want to try...it start when i watch some movie...on the screen flow many combination letter to search password... i want to see if really works...i want to test it, if its work maybe my password on it...Ah, movie password cracker PROGRAMS... in a real program you would not WASTE time echoing the trial passwords to the screen... and would anyone choose a password like aaaaagzzzzzzz ?
it will become some word...

passwordaxdrt or else...

but i dont know to make that...

aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaab

change letter one by one...
Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 30, 2013, 02:02:17 PM

Ah, movie password cracker programs... in a real program you would not waste time echoing the trial passwords to the screen... and would anyone choose a password like aaaaagzzzzzzz ?

Not sure why anyone is even assisting with this here....

We are bored

Password programs use multi-GPU these days and are orders of magnitude faster than a one using a CPU.

when the Get File Name option is selected , the filename which called the script along with the path has to be copied into the batch.

%0 is the name of the batch file that is being executed.

I am messing around in batch creating some games and some of my favorite games, but I need help with something.
I am making a game that when you press WASD your CHARACTER moves, and I'm WONDERING how i can do this.

-thanks choice /c wasd
if %errorlevel% == 1 THIS IS FOR W
if %errorlevel% == 2 THIS IS FOR A
if %errorlevel% == 3 THIS IS FOR S
if %errorlevel% == 4 THIS IS FOR D

im making a text-based rpg. i HEARD thats a good way to flex your batch file skills.
apparently, i dont have as much skills as id have hoped.

i know %errorlevel% can be used in a window to run commands when another main window closes, after converting the batch to an exe.
in this case, it would be used as an autosave so when the player loses, they cant exit out for a do over.
i have a basic txt-file-based saving system already, so that isnt a problem.

but my predicament is that the player can exit out the autosave window to allow do overs, once they lose in the main window.

is there a way to hide another batch window, and open it once another batch file opens?There is no real way to make a bat file invisible, though if you compiled it into an exe then you can USE vbs to minimize the 2nd batch file that looks in 'tasklist' for 'xxx.exe' and when it closes saves the game. The issue with this is that both batch files have SEPARATE variables and the 2nd would not be able to recover any data from the first.

You could always save after every EQUATION. This is a little more code intensive and runs a little slower, but not enough to be noticeable as you are only saving the changing value. (keep all of your variables in .txt files and draw them out when you need them, then remake the file after you have changed the value.)

A little off topic, but you may want to consider making it in parts and then using the 'call' command to jump between the parts. There is not a lot of room for error if you write it all in one giant file.

Hi,
I export playlists from iTunes as m3u files, but have to alter them before I can use them in my car's audio system. I currently do this by opening them in Notepad, and using 'replace all' to make the changes but as there are quite a few playlists, this takes some time, and I think there must be an easier way. Could a batch file do this for me ?.

The playlists are .m3u files, and have multiple lines of paths to music files like :-

E:\Music\Music Library\song 1.mp3

from which I want to remove the text shown red from each line. Is this possible with a batch file ? (ideally running it once to do all the different playlists). If so, could someone point me in the right direction ?

Ta There is an exact science to batch where it doesn't bend on commands at all. To get the most accurate SCRIPT we would need an example or two of the m3u files. Without them we can only really guess at what needs to be done. Here is a script that should do the job though I would run it on a backup version of your m3u folder just in case.

Code: [Select]@ECHO off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /b ^| find ".m3u"') do call :m3u "%%A"

exit /b




:m3u
0>nul set /p=Processing %~1 . . .
set m3u=%~1
for /f "delims=" %%B in (%m3u%) do (
set "WORKING=%%B"
if "!working:~0,9!"=="E:\Music\" set "working=!working:~9!"
echo !working! >>%m3u%.done
)
notepad %~1.done
:: DEL /f "%~1"
:: rename "%~1.done" "%~1"
echo Done.
goto :eof

If the file that it opens up does what you want it to, remove both "::" and the line 'notepad %~1.done'. I hope this helps.Try this:

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in (' dir *.m3u /b ') do (
echo %%a
call repl "E:\\Music\\" "" im <"%%a" >"%%a.tmp"
move /y "%%a.tmp" "%%a" >nul
)
pause

This uses a helper batch file called repl.bat from - http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3855Thanks Lemonilla - that worked perfectly !

Thanks also for your response foxidrive - I did try it too, but couldn't get it to work, but that was PROBABLY due to my error.

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum.

My question involves batch files, please bear in mind this is only my second batch file, and I am almost completely novice.

I was using the FOR command "FOR %%variable IN (set) DO command [command parameters]" to send all files in a sole directory to an external program. I got this to work just fine. Problem is, each file was being sent one at a time. I need to find a way to send all the files in the directory to the program at once. Any ideas?

An example of the code i was using.

Code: [Select]FOR %%X IN (*.wav) DO "G:\Program Files\flac\flac.exe" "%%X"

Secondly, is there a way to "DO" multiple commands within the FOR?

Thanks for the help. Not sure what you mean by all at once. You could try something like this:

Code: [Select]"G:\Program Files\flac\flac.exe" *.wav

Doubtful that would work. You can try stringing the file names on the command line, something like this:

Code: [Select]@echo off
setlocal
for %%x in (*.wav) do (
call set strCmd=%%strCmd%%,"%%x"
)
set strCmd=%strCmd:~1%

"g:\program files\flac\flac.exe" %strCmd%
endlocal

That could possibly work. Depends more on how the program accepts input. Use parenthesis to "DO" multiple commands within the FOR. The snippet above shows how.

Good LUCK. I think the separator for multiple input files is white space not a comma, and that implies that filenames which contain spaces need quote marks before and after.

Quote from: gregory on September 23, 2008, 01:18:16 AM

Secondly, is there a way to "DO" multiple commands within the FOR?

I think the separator for multiple input files is white space not a comma, and that implies that filenames which contain spaces need quote marks before and after.

Not only white space, but commas, semi-colons and equal symbols are perfectly acceptable to the interpreter for use as separators.

Oops! From what I could find out the OP's original code was correct. I didn't find any examples of how to send multiple files to flac.exe other then iterating a directory.

for %F in (*.wav) do flac "%F"

Problem is, each file was being sent one at a time. I need to find a way to send all the files in the directory to the program at once.

I am trying to display a file's name, last modified date, and file version from the command line.

dir /q
-returns owner information and includes file name and last modified date.

now I only need a way to see the files version information

any help is much appreciatedSince you've not had any response to your post in two days, I just thought I'd stop by and say "HI".

What kind of file are you wanting to see the Version on?
A doc or txt file for instance won't usually have any Version.
However a program file like say, "Ghost.exe" will have a version and it will be shown if you type,
Ghost /ver
at the command prompt of the folder containing the file.

Maybe give more info on your needs and someone will come up with just what you need.

Cheers Mate!
The Shadow Good point Shadow

I'm trying to get version information from a directory of .dll files.

I tried the "filename /ver" at the command prompt for the home directory but get this message:
'filename.dll' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I tried the same option on a .exe file and it executes the file.

Do you have a TOOLKIT or package installed that allows the /ver to work?

Thanks!If I'm wrong, I'll be the first ONE to admit it.... (Really!)
But I think you're looking for something that does not exist.

I don't understand why or even how there could be a Version assigned to a Folder.
The date it was created, yes. Windows Explorer will show you that.
"That does not Compute!" to quote "The ROBOT" from Lost in Space.

The fact that a program like, say, Ghost.exe can provide you with a version is actually written into the program itself. It's NOT a function of DOS or Windows.
When I actually do that with Ghost.exe (as an example), from a command prompt, I get all the Copyright info, the date the program was created and of course, the Version number.

But if that ability was not actually written into the program itself, I'd get some kind of error by trying to run the program with the /ver extension.

Just for grins and giggles, I just did this from my ghost folder:
Ghost /ver > C:\Ghostver.txt

And the resultant text file shows this:

Symantec Ghost 8.3.0 (build=1331, cdrlib=3.1.31). Built on Nov 28 2005 17:37:37.
Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved.

But, the ability to divulge that information had to be written into the file itself.

Am I making any sense at all here?

Ok, I'll shut up now.

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?

The Shadow




If I read his clarification correctly- I can surmise he wants the version number of the DLL files, not the folder itself.

I've seen command-line programs for this, but I completely forgot where... (helpful, I know)BC: That's correct, I'm trying to get the version information from the .dll files.

From the XP GUI I can show the versions but wanted to use DOS to pipe them to a flat file.

Shadow: Thanks for the effort! Just curious, does the /ver switch work on other .exe files other than Ghost? I'm also starting to think that this option doesnt exist for DOS. Maybe an approach from ASP.... I have over 10,000 files to get version info from so trying to do this programatically.Quote

Maybe an approach from ASP.... I have over 10,000 files to get version info from so trying to do this programatically

I am new to batch programming.
I want to open a new dos window and set its path to c:/pqr/xyz at its opening, using batch file. Please help.In the beginning of the batch file, you must have the following:

cd "C:\pqr\xyz"

That will make the Command Prompt Window look at that directory.WOW, that was a brain teaser!

In my experiment I tried to open the command (cmd) window from the C:\temp FOLDER.

My LITTLE batch file looked like this:

cd\temp
cmd


That changed the current directory to my temp folder and then executed the CMD command.

When the resulting CMD windows opened, it was already in the C:\temp folder.

Well, it worked for me ANYWAY.

CHEERS Mate, and Good Luck,
The Shadow


Actually, I run my batch file currently from c:\sk\rnd directory which opens a new dos window with same path i.e. c:\sk\rnd whereas I want the new window with path as c:\pqr\xyz.
Also, if i want to open d:\abc\def from the same batch file how will i go....This sounds like school WORK to me.
Quote from: sudesh_roy on September 28, 2008, 10:31:05 AM

I want the new window with path as c:\pqr\xyz.
Also, if i want to open d:\abc\def from the same batch file how will i go....

My Windows XP is dead and I got to boot it in an external disc. I got to the screen of dos command. How can I copy those word/excel files in desktop and my document in my harddrive?
I don't think you can do what you want to do like that.

If you have ANOTHER computer, you can hook up the current hard drive as a Slave and access the hard drive in My Computer on the other computer.

Otherwise, if you have a Flash Drive, you may want to temporarily install Portable Linux.
With that, you can boot the computer from your flash drive and copy the files to the flash drive.
(www.pendrivelinux.com)Milk,
If the XP drive is DEAD, you're not going to GET anything out of it any way you connect it.
Now, if the drive is OK, but windows is screwed up, then you have some options.

Like was just said by 'Carbon Dudeoxide' , you should attach that drive to another computer as a slave drive and extract the files you need using Windows Explorer on the OS drive. Then the files could be copied to a Flash Drive or burned to a CD/DVD.
I perform this "SERVICE" all the time for my customers.

From DOS you will NOT even be able to read the average Windows XP drive, because it will be formatted NTFS and that's INVISIBLE to DOS. (Sorry, I didn't make the rules!)

However, if you have "NTFS4DOS" on your boot disk, it will allow you to read and copy files from an NTFS drive.

Due to this restriction, I NEVER set up any HD for XP on an NTFS formatted drive.
XP runs just fine on a FAT-32 drive and then I have full control over that drive, even from a DOS boot disk.

Good Luck to you!

The Shadow

Is there something available for date manipulation? E.G. I have a file aaa-bbb-20080930 which represents a file created on 20080930. I execute a PROCESS on 20081001 which needs the prior day's file which is aaa-bbb-20080930 . If I merely subtract 1 from today's date I'm not ending up with what I want in terms of the date part of the file I need to process.

Hopefully there may be something which is non C and Perl....search on Google Groups Usenet archive on alt.msdos.batch.nt maybe...Wow, a question Dias doesn't want to tackle... I haven't seen a lot of those in the DOS forum. :X(1) No point in reinventing the wheel, and (2) at some point in a budding batch programmer's progress they should be introduced to alt.batch.msdos and its nt variant (3) That's where I get a lot of batch solutions anyway so I thought "Hey - cut out the middle man!" and (4) I was about to OPEN a bottle of wine, organic Argentinian Malbec, and watch a film so I was a bit pressed for time.

However.

For humans it is simple to determine yesterday's date, we just have to think for a moment, but it is tricky to get RIGHT in a batch script. For example you need to cater for when today is the first day of the year or month, (How many days in last month; if last month was Feb, is this year a leap year? [Have to implement Zeller's Congruence to crack leap years properly], etc etc. Like the guys in the newsgroup say,

Quote

Getting yesterday's date is simple using a secondary language that has real time functions

I wasn't saying you couldn't solve the problem- I thought you had simply- or, I should say- finally, lost patience to give it any of your time.

I modified the code to suit my date format which is yyyy-mm-dd and it works fine except that if the current date is 2008-04-01 the new date is 2008-03-31 instead of 2008-03-29, where have I gone wrong please?

I suspect that "where you have gone wrong" is in confusing March and February.

hi friends,

I made a batch FILE to compile java programs using javac

here it is
Code: [Select]@ echo off

cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02\bin

javac %1

at commond line i type jrun javafile.java

then the target file GET compiled successfully.

now what code snippet should I add to run the class file also using java class LOADER tool, that has been come from compilation?This should HELP you with the mechanics, you may have to provide the details:

Code: [Select]@echo off
javac %1.java
if not errorlevel 1 java %1.class

Quote

at commond line i type jrun javafile.java

What I'm trying to find, is a way to search for a string of text that's outputted from a command, then COPY the next couple characters, and finally store them as a variable.

In case anyone needs it, the command I'm using is "net config rdr", and I want to use it to get the network adapter's GUID, however it outputs a lot of other things that I don't need, and I want just the GUID.

Thanks in advance!Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=3 delims={}_" %%i in ('net config rdr ^| find /i "tcpip"') do echo GUID: %%i

The snippet is designed as a batch file. The GUID is in the variable %%i.

Thanks, I got my batch file to work perfectly.

However, if you can, do you mind explaining how your snippet works?

Thanks again!First run the initial command from the command line: net config rdr which produces:

Quote

Computer name \\LAPTOP
Full Computer name Laptop
User name *****

Workstation active on
NetbiosSmb (000000000000)
NetBT_Tcpip_{96C2160D-9E3B-4AE5-97CC-4B88AE6DB75F} (001150F4851B)

Software version Windows 2002

Workstation domain ********
Workstation Domain DNS Name (null)
Logon domain LAPTOP

COM Open Timeout (sec) 0
COM Send Count (BYTE) 16
COM Send Timeout (msec) 250
The command COMPLETED successfully.

NetBT_Tcpip_{96C2160D-9E3B-4AE5-97CC-4B88AE6DB75F} (001150F4851B)

GUID: 96C2160D-9E3B-4AE5-97CC-4B88AE6DB75F

I also have a calculating problem.
I would like to calculate how long some commands take.
For example:

@echo off
set old=%time%
echo %old%
rem some commands here
echo %old% %time%
set /A delay="%time% - %old%"
echo %delay%
pause

I get an error "Missing operator" with an 18 on the following line.
If I remove the % signs I don't get an error just "-19" on the following line. There must be some sort of a syntax error, but I don't know enough about the set command it to rectify it. It would be nice if I understood the help file (set /?).
Any help would be appreciated.
Frankwhat does %time% look like?%time% looks like 19:44:16.85
FrankYou have to remove the colons, separate out the hours, minutes and seconds, multiply hours x 3600, minutes x 60, and add to seconds to get seconds since midnight, then you can subtract one from another.
o/k, this no longer sounds like a job for a batch file.
Frankcan be done, I've done it, when I get home in about 6 hrs I'll post it. The big trouble comes when you span midnight. You can get the PC's up time from Windows and use that. Catch me later.
Thank you very much.
In 6.5 hours it will be 3:00am here so I will be asleep. But I'll look at the post when I get up.
Thanks again.
FrankHave you got XP pro?

can you use the systeminfo command?

Yes, I have Windows XP Pro SP2.Number of seconds since computer was last booted:

for /f "tokens=1-14 delims= " %%A in ('systeminfo ^| find "System Up Time"') do set /a secs=86400*%%D+3600*%%F+60*%%H+%%JThank you very much.
This is what I did:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-14 delims= " %%A in ('systeminfo ^| find "System Up Time"') do set /a secs1=86400*%%D+3600*%%F+60*%%H+%%J
rem some commands to do
for /f "tokens=1-14 delims= " %%A in ('systeminfo ^| find "System Up Time"') do set /a secs2=86400*%%D+3600*%%F+60*%%H+%%J
set /a secs3=secs2-secs1
echo %secs3% seconds taken.
pause

I am not sure I understand the syntax, expecially %%H etc. but it works that's the main thing.
Thanksregarding the syntax - the output of systeminfo is a long string of words separated by spaces, so %%B to %% J are "implicit variables" created by the tokens=1-14 section. Actually, 1-11 would do just as well.

You should note that the actual systeminfo operation takes about 2 seconds, (on my system) so you should subtract that from the second time. You can establish the size of this delay overhead by running the code like this


Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-14 delims= " %%A in ('systeminfo ^| find "System Up Time"') do set /a secs1=86400*%%D+3600*%%F+60*%%H+%%J

rem nothing here

for /f "tokens=1-14 delims= " %%A in ('systeminfo ^| find "System Up Time"') do set /a secs2=86400*%%D+3600*%%F+60*%%H+%%J
set /a secs3=secs2-secs1
echo %secs3% seconds taken.
pause
Thanks,
Tried it and the overhead on my system is also 2 seconds.
If you do not mind that this will give wrong RESULTS if the first time is before midnight, and the second time is after (the next, or a subsequent!) midnight, then this code takes the hours, minutes, seconds, and hundredths of a second in the %time% variable and converts to a figure in milliseconds, and it takes much less than 2 seconds! I would not TRUST it to beyond around 50 msec though.

Code: [Select]@echo off
set ntime=%time%

REM slice up %time%
REM PRESUMES 24 hr clock hh:mm:ss.nn
REM nn=1/100ths of seconds
set hh=%ntime:~0,2%
set mm=%ntime:~3,2%
set ss=%ntime:~6,2%
set cs=%ntime:~9,2%

REM remove any leading zeroes because set /a
REM treats them as indicating octal values
REM and barfs at 08 and 09, understandably!
REM also remove leading space if hour < 10
if "%hh:~0,1%"==" " set hh=%hh:~1,1%
if "%mm:~0,1%"=="0" set mm=%mm:~1,1%
if "%ss:~0,1%"=="0" set ss=%ss:~1,1%
if "%cs:~0,1%"=="0" set cs=%cs:~1,1%

REM now they are all VALID integer values, do the arithmetic
set /a msec=3600000*%hh%+60000*%mm%+1000*%ss%+10*%cs%
echo %msec%
say you called it mtime.bat and stored it somewhere on your PATH, you could use it like this

With just that "REM code to be timed" line I am mostly seeing values between 100 & 200 msec with a few as low as 70 or as high as 230.

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time1=%%T
REM code to be timed
for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time2=%%T
set /a elapsed=%time2%-%time1%
echo elapsed %elapsed% millisecondsThat is cool.
Overhead on my computer is 110-140ms.
This is a much better solution that STEPPING through a file.
Thanks

Just thought, a dummy run could be made to determine the overhead and then subtract that amount at the end. This would be more acurate. The error that still exists is the variation between successive runs (+- 20ms).

Code: [Select]@echo off
rem DO A DUMMY RUN TO FIND THE OVERHEAD
for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time1=%%T
for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time2=%%T
set /a overh=%time2%-%time1%

for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time1=%%T
REM code to be timed
for /f %%T in ('mtime.bat') do set time2=%%T
set /a elapsed=%time2%-%time1%-%overh%
echo elapsed %elapsed% milliseconds
pause

I have a file aaa-bbb_yyyymmdd - yyyymmdd = current date. The file is really a logfile, created new each day at 12 AM with the current date as part of the file name.

I am attempting to setup an automated process to access the file which has a moving name each day. The process will use a BAT with imbedded DOS commands
e.g. findstr etc. to create a file (static filename) which will be used by a secondary process.

How or what can I use to concatenate the stem filename aaa-bbb and the current date… I have displayed the %DATE% variable in the BAT file and it
is displayed as yyyy/mm/dd which is not much use to me….

I don't have any experience with C and very little Perl experience… I was hoping there might be something in DOS itself..
Quote

I have displayed the %DATE% variable in the BAT file and it
is displayed as yyyy/mm/dd which is not much use to me….

You can use this notation for the current date: %date:/=% to strip out the slashes.

I had a crash with the computer. I have been able to get to command prompt and save most of my files using an xcopy command. I have a few files such as My Pictures that I get an error message when trying to COPY. I believe the reason is the space in the NAME. Is there a way to rename these files to copy or is there ANOTHER command to use instead of xcopy? Or is there any other means of saving these files? ThanksQuote

I believe the reason is the space in the name

I have updated the configuration file for my software distribution solution. I want to delete the existing configuration file if the creation date is older than the newly created configuration file.

Thanks,
Todd This is my current solution. I've tried to adapt some the ideas I found
in the forum to create a new solution, but no luck so far.

rem /* ================================ */
rem /* WSUS registry entry. */
rem /* 09/23/08 -tah */
rem /* ================================ */


DIR C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg | FIND "/2008" > nul
if not errorlevel==1 (goto _WSUS
) ELSE (goto _WSUS_No
)
)
GOTO _WSUS_END


:_WSUS
ECHO The date on this file does match.
GOTO _WSUS_END


:_WSUS_No
ECHO Doesn't match.
ATTRIB -R C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg
DEL C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg


:_WSUS_END


Thanks,
ToddIm not sure whether you want to keep only the latest configuration, or remove a configuration set if it is superseded.

If you want to have only the most up to date files, then xcopy will do it for you - taken from the online help
/D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
If no date is given, copies only those files whose
source time is newer than the destination time.

Does this help ?
GrahamCode: [Select]if not errorlevel==1
That should be

Code: [Select]if %errorlevel% NEQ 1Quote from: gpl on September 18, 2008, 11:18:59 AM

I'm not sure whether you want to keep only the latest configuration, or remove a configuration set if it is superseded.

If you want to have only the most up to date files, then xcopy will do it for you - taken from the online help
/D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
If no date is given, copies only those files whose
source time is newer than the destination time.

Does this help ?
Graham

Code: [Select]if not errorlevel==1
That should be

Code: [Select]if %errorlevel% NEQ 1

I want to delete the existing configuration file if the creation date is older than the newly created configuration file.

Quote from: getkiran1 on SEPTEMBER 25, 2008, 04:17:49 AM

NB: my INTENTION was not to hack or somthng lik dat.. jst for gaining knowledge.. ok?

Hi, I have been looking for a way to do the following :

I have a text file, for example MyTextFile.txt containing the text :

C:\File1
C:\File2
C:\File3

within a batch file, i want to retrieve what is contained in MyTextFile.txt and generate a string which looks like this :
C:\File1;C:\File2;C:\File3

in order to subsequently LAUNCH a command using this as argument.

in a way, this amounts to reading MyTextFile.txt and REPLACING end-of-lines by semicolumns.
i was not able to do this in my batch.

any ideas ?

Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%x in (MyTextFile.txt) do (
call set strArg=%%strArg%%;"%%x"
)
set strArg=%strArg:~1%

strArg CONTAINS your data.

Welcome to COMPUTER Hope. Please do a search before posting your questions. As it happens, a very similar question was posted earlier this morning.

Hello everyone,

Been a while since I last visited so I hope all are well.

WOULD like to know if it is possible for a batch script to recycle an application pool in IIS.

I have a application that monitors a large number of websites and on occassion some of these websites get themselves tied up. This means that generally I need to recycle their application pool (note - each website has their own independant application pool).

Within the application MONITOR I can stipulate to execute a script/executable dependant on certain conditions. And I began wondering if a batch script was plauseable.

Your thought on the MATTER appreciated.

Cheers,
CameronExactly what needs to be done to recycle an application pool? As IIS is INTERNET BASED, my best guess is batch would not be suitable. But hey! you never know.

Most any of the Windows script languages might be useful.

Let us know.

Hi Sidewinder,

Coincidence is a funny thing.
Found the following while trawling the net moments ago ...

cscript.exe c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs [AppPoolName] /r

Now I just need to apply to a remote host.

Cheers,
Cameron

Hi,

I want to run a batch file that will read text file on a file share then if the INFORMATION in the text file does not match what I have set then an msiexec.exe if start a slient install.

What WOULD be the COMMAND to read a text file the search for a certain string of text. Sorry the file I want to read is a dat file not a text file, this HOLDS the version of the software that I want to check