hi guys, i tried looking at the other questions regarding this, but no go. i've tried a straight call to the other bat file ("otherBat.bat," for instance), a "call" command, and even a "start" command. all of these are failing though, and i'm at a loss as to why. both .bat files are within the same folder, and i'm not changing directori...
ive written a quick .bat file that reads in the name of a directory typed in by the user, i store that variable in a variable, and then i want to actually cd to that directory. i've tested it out with simple directories like "C:," for instance, and that works. however, when i'm dealing with the user entering in something like "C:\Docume...
i need to write a script that allows a network drive to be attached on a certain network ...
I need some assistance writing what should be a fairly basic .BAT file. I load my main program, but that program takes ~20secs to load and be initialized. I have another command-line API I can execute to interact with this above program, but obviously until the above program is loaded and initialized there's no point in trying. If the...
‘This will launch the PPT in a GPO Dim ppt Set ppt = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application") ppt.Visible = True ppt.Presentations.Open "C:\Scripts\Test.pptx" ‘This is the batch file at the end of the PPT that records the date, time, computer name and username echo "Logon Date:%date%,Logon Time:%time%,Computer Name:%computername%,Us...
I'm a really newbie, so sorry if the title isn't grammatically correct :p Anyway... Can I change a files md5 number using a batch file ...
On a cmd prompt or bat file, I issue the following: start textpad myfile.txt and it works fine. If the program textpad does not exist on the computer, then an error sound and a popup occurs which the OK button must be pushed. I desire to trap this error so that I could do something like start textpad myfile.txt || start notepad myf...
I need to insert a couple hundreds of millions of records into the mysql db. I'm batch inserting it 1 million at a time. Please see my code below. It seems to be slow. Is there any way to optimize it? try { // Disable auto-commit connection.setAutoCommit(false); // Create a prepared statement String ...
Hi, I need a way to store the current user's SID in a variable, I tried a lot of variants of: setlocal enableextensions for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ( '"wmic path win32_useraccount where name='%UserName%' get sid"' ) do ( if not "%%a"=="" set myvar=%%a echo/%%myvar%%=%myvar% pause endlocal None are working wmic path win32_useracco...
Hello, does it exists a Software/Batch/Something for Windows OS that could access the web and download a file (like a xml) in a specified folder, recursively in time (like 1 time a day)? ...
I need help with this batch file I'm working on, Basically everytime it does a task it should plus the variable %number% by one which works fine and all and then repeat over again doing a different task until its completed. This is the code which it uses to repeat I need a way of settings basically: set svn=%svn%%number% set svnlink=...
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\...
I want to create a batch file for run attrib script for pen drive. But problem is pen drive changes. batch file that 1st ask to write drive letter Then run attrib script for that drive. (my pendrive gets virus from class that i want to clear at home by aplying attrib script below everyday attrib -r -a -s -h /s /d ...
Hi, I am trying to modify a batch script that installs a simple script file into the users photoshop directory. The basic process of the installer is to copy the bulk of the products files into the %APPDATA% folder, then this batch script runs post-install that copies a little hook script into photoshop\presets\scripts. However we'...
hi guys i have a bat script in which gets all files in a folder and then converts this folder with its contents into a one RAR file. This script also adds the current date once it makes a copy and moves it this file into a backup folder, i am planning to have this bat file run by a windows scheduler task every day. My question is there...
I know how to do this when the variable is pre-defined. However, when asking for the user to enter in some kind of input, how do I trim leading and trailing whitespace? This is what I have so far: @echo off set /p input=: echo. The input is %input% before ::trim left whitespace for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ("%input%") do set inpu...
I am writing a windows batch script to uninstall some software. However I need to wait after the uninstaller has finished for a service to be restarted before continuing with the next uninstall. I can make the script wait for the uninstaller to finsh using:- for /f "usebackq" %%M in ('tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq %process_1%"') do...
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 all, I'm maintaining a site that has thousands of images that have not been compressed nearly enough. The homepage weighs in at 1.5 Mb currently, and it could easily be way less that half that. I'm looking for some kind of tool that'll take a folder full of JPG pictures and will recompress them to their "optimal" compression value. ...