Hello, I have a .bat file with the following structure: istruction1[newline] I would like to append some parameters in a way that the resulting file is: istruction1 param currently i have: istruction1[newline] param Basically I want to get rid of the newline...how can I do that? thanks a lot! ...
hello! i have a little problem... on win xp, if i write on commandline shutdown -t 00 -r -f the reboot works fine. but if i paste it, as is, in a bat file...the prompt show me an infinite loop. anyone can say me why? thanks a lot for any suggestion :) ...
Hi guys, How can I call a batch file(.bat) in c sharp? Great thanks. ...
Here's my situation. A project has as objective to migrate some attachments to another system. These attachments will be located to a parent folder, let's say "Folder 0" (see this question's diagram for better understanding), and they will be zipped/compressed. I want my batch script to be called like so: BatchScript.bat "c:\temp\usd\...
Here is the copy statement I have currently. I am looking to replace the F: with %cdrom% so that this script will work no matter what computer it is used on. XCOPY F:\*.* .\disk2\ /C /S /D /Y /I ...
How do i ensure 2 arguments are passed in a bat file? I would like to echo a description of the arguments and exit the bat if there are not exactly 2 arguments. ...
I need to recursively remove unnecessary files from a svn repository and i have the following batch file to do this: @echo on del /s ~*.* del /s *.~* del /s Thumbs.db However, this is also deleting the entries under the .svn/ subfolders. Is there any way to prevent this commands from being executed under the .svn/ folders so that it d...
I have a script to delete all subfolders and files in a folder: FOR /D %%i IN ("D:\myfolder\*") DO RD /S /Q "%%i" DEL /Q "D:\myfolder\*.*" And it works great! Only problem is that I would like to exclude one or more folders, like the XCOPY exclude feature. I just cant figure how I could add that to the script. ...
Hi, I'm trying to use variable in variable in conjunction with delayed expansion but still no luck. SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion SET ERROR_COMMAND=exit /B ^!ERRORLEVEL^! This is my last try. I want to setup an ERROR_COMMAND to be called when one of the steps in batch file crashes. The command is supposed to be: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 !ER...
I have a batch file coordinating the activity of two other batch file. How can I make it execute the second batch file only after the first bat file finishes execution (execute the sequentially). I do not care if the first batch file executes successfully or not. ...
(See end for solution) I didn't think this was going to be hard. I have a commmand file, d:\a.cmd which contains: copy /b d:\7zS.sfx + d:\config.txt + d:\files.7z d:\setup.exe But these lines of C# won't execute it: Process.Start("d:\\a.cmd"); Process.Start("cmd", "/c d:\\a.cmd"); Throws Win32Exception: "%1 is not a valid Win32 ap...
Hello, I have a Win7 PC in use as part of an experiment control system. The experiment in question uses 4 windows simultaneously, and I would like to find away to open, position and size these 4 windows with a script. The script would run at start up, so that the newly booted PC presents the user with the four windows as default. Obvi...
I have a Windows batch file utilized in my Visual Studio tool chain that creates a list of files in a particular directory, and then uses "findstr" to narrow this list down to only the files whose names contain a particular string; and then does some work on these files. dir /b \mypath*.wav >wavRawList.txt findstr /b /v "DesiredString"...
Hi, I have a problem with parsing a string, which consists only of directory path. For ex. My input string is Abc\Program Files\sample\ My output should be Abc//Program Files//sample The script should work for input path of any length i.e., it can contain any no. of subdirectories. (For ex., abc\temp\sample\folder\joe) I h...
I want to continuously ping a server and see a message box when ever it responds i.e. server is currently down. I want to do it through batch file. I can show a message box as said here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/774175/how-can-i-open-a-message-box-in-a-windows-batch-file/774253#774253 and can ping continuously by ping <serve...
I have little to no experience in writing batch files. I need to write one that copies a file to a new folder and renames it At the moment, my batch file consists of only this command: COPY ABC.PDF \\Documents As you can see, it only copies the file ABC.pdf to the network folder 'Documents'. However i need to change this so it renam...
I'm trying to code a batch file to copy only the most recently dated file in a given folder to another directory on the local machine, and simultaneously rename it as it does. I've found a very similar question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97371/batch-script-to-copy-newest-file and have managed to cobble together the below ...
This batch file releases a build from TEST to LIVE. I want to add a check constraint in this file that ensures there is an accomanying release document in a specific folder. "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\robocopy.exe" "\\testserver\testapp$" "\\liveserver\liveapp$" *.* /E /XA:H /PURGE /XO /XD ".svn" /NDL /NC /NS ...
I am looking for a c# example project of a WinForms app which redirects the output from a batch file running in background to any kind of WinForms control. Any suggestions? ...
How do I setup visualsvn server to trigger teamcity to build a specific project after someone commits to it while obeying the set quiet period? Right now I am using this in the post commit hook of visual svn server: wget http://<user name>:<user password>@<server address>/httpAuth/action.html?add2Queue=<build type Id> The problem...