Are these snippets possible with HTML and/or javascript

Question

Question:

We have a situation at work where we would like to run the following scripts:

xcopy /s c:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\PDF\8.1A.pdf C:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\TEMPDUMP


del /s "C:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\TEMPDUMP\*.pdf"

However the I.T. manager is dead against batch scripts is there a html or javascrip code/ equivelent for doing this.

Note the IT manager is not against the function of the script, its simply a no batch files policy.

Answer 1

No. You cannot run these commands using javascript or html, that would be a function they're absolutely not considered for. Simplest would be a batch script... If your IT Manager just doesn't like batch scripts, there are several ways:

• Install some script language interpreter on the machine and write a script in another language (e.G. Python, Perl, Ruby, ..)
• Write several lines that call exec() in C or C++ or whatever else language you can compile to a .exe file, and give him the .exe file
• Write a batch script and change the file extension from .bat to .cmd

Answer 2

You could always do it through PHP (that is, if he turns a blind eye to using web scripts), but that's basically abstracting it another level for no reason. Or make JavaScript call a CGI binary which does it. For reference the PHP code would basically be

<?php
exec("xcopy /s c:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\PDF\8.1A.pdf C:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\TEMPDUMP");
exec("del /s \"C:\STANDAARD_DETAILS_V2\TEMPDUMP\*.pdf\"");
?>

Hope this helps.