Is there a way to step through a .bat script ? The thing is , I have a build script , which calls a lot of other scripts , and I would like to see what is the order in which they are called , so that I may know where exactly I have to go about and add my modifications . ...
y: &pause cd ptls5.0 &pause sdp describe Integration.dpk &pause z: &pause cd ptls5.0 &pause dir &pause I have those commands in the 1.cmd file. First three are executed fine. The result of it is that after "sdp describe Integration.dpk &pause" is executed I'm given "press any key to continue..." after I hit any key. The command prompt ...
I've tried these, and they did not work (Access opens, but it does not wait: start "C:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" filename.mdb start /WAIT "C:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" filename.mdb start /W "C:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" filename.mdb start filename.mdb s...
Hi, UPDATED: on win2k it seems it works OK. Sorry for the confusion. MS Windows Vista internal ftp client has a strange behavior. When redirecting its output and error to a file, the errors do not show up there: ftp -n -s:commands.txt host >output.log 2>&1 When running it from Task Scheduler inside a batch file, I don't get a...
I'm looking to execute a series of queries as part of a migration project. The scripts to be generated are produced from a tool which analyses the legacy database then produces a script to map each of the old entities to an appropriate new record. THe scripts run well for small entities but some have records in the hundreds of thousands ...
I have a batch file that uses this idiom (many times) to read a registry value into an environment variable: FOR /F "tokens=2* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Path\To\Key" /v ValueName') DO SET MyVariable=%%B (There's a tab character after delims=) This works fine on thousands of customer's computers. But on one customer...
Which is the best timer approach for a C# console batch application that has to process as follows: Connect to datasources process batch until timeout occurs or processing complete. "Do something with datasources" stop console app gracefully. related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186084/how-do-you-add-a-timer-to-a-c-co...
By default, copying from the command prompt will prompt you to overwrite files that already exist in the target location. You can add "/Y" to say "Yes to all" replacements. But how can you say "No to all" ? In other words, I want to copy everything from one directory that does not already exist in the target. The closest thing I see ...
Hi all, I'm creating a database, and prototyping and benchmarking first. I am using H2, an open-source, commercially free, embeddable, relational, java database. I am not currently indexing on any column. After the database grew to about 5GB, its batch write speed doubled (the rate of writing was slowed 2x the original rate). I was ...
I'm trying to write a Windows cmd script to perform several tasks in series. However, it always stops after the first command in the script. The command it stops after is a maven build (not sure if that's relevant). How do I make it carry on and run each task in turn please? Installing any software or configuring the registry etc is c...
I am trying to run xcopy that copies files excluding .obj, etc. What I am seeing is that Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder.dll is not copied when my excludes.txt file contains .obj as an extension. When .obj is removed, I Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder.dll is copied correctly. This does not happen to other dlls though. Does anyone ha...
I need to change the capitalization of a set of files in a subversion working copy, like so: svn mv test.txt Test.txt svn mv test2.txt Test2.txt svn mv testn.txt Testn.txt ... svn commit -m "caps" How can I automate this process? Standard linux install tools available. ...
Edit: My problem is not a problem anymore: I have redo my performances tests and I have do a fatal stupid error: I had forget a x1000 to get seconds from milliseconds :/ Sorry for that guys. For info: - I do some 1900 updates per second from my PC to the DataBase server on local network. - 3.200 updates per second if the programs ...
I like to know if there is a way to read the user input inside a batch file, because i have a file named: "fif.bat" that recives two parameters (just call them paramA and paramB) so i execute the file like this: fif paramA paramB I have to change paramA every month, but i call this file lot of times so i like to open a console and hav...
How you can read a file (text or binary) from a batch file? There is a way to read it in a binary mode or text mode? ...
Is there a way to invoke an external script or batch file from VC6 (and later) project files? I have a background process that I need to kill before attempting to build certain projects (DLLS, executables) and haven't found a way to successfully do so from the project itself. I'd like simply to call a batch file with a taskkill command...
I'm getting a totally bizzare error trying to compile a C program using GCC. Here is the batch file I am using: echo Now compiling, assembling, and linking the core: nasm -f aout -o start.o start.asm gcc -Wall -O -fstrength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -nostdinc -fno-builtin -I./include -c -o consoleio.o consoleio.c g...
While running a batch file in Windows XP I have found randomly occuring error message: The system cannot find the batch label specified name_of_label Of course label existed. What causes this error? ...
I use jsmin to compress my javascript files before uploading them to production. Since I tend to have one "code-behind" javascript file per page, I wind up doing this a lot. I installed a Windows Powertoy that adds a context menu item in Windows Explorer, so I can "Open Command Window Here". When I click that, the command prompt opens...
I think everyone agrees that DOS batch scripting is lame. Nonetheless there are many situations where it is expedient, or you must maintain existing scripts. Guidelines: One feature per answer Give both a short description of the feature and an example, not just a link to documentation Limit answers to native funtionality, i.e., does ...