I am executing command on 1 hr interval daily from a third party tool.
I have an requirement to identify that the command is executing for first time.
as if its executing first time i need to go to task 'A' if not then task 'B'
e.g.
command:
net start
outputs
First Execution
[some flag to identify as this is first output]
test
Next Execution
test
so in this case, i could be able to identify if its First execution or not.
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
:: mainline - test first/not first
CALL :testfirst ###
IF DEFINED alreadyrun (ECHO ### already run) ELSE (ECHO ### first run)
CALL :testfirst $$$
IF DEFINED alreadyrun (ECHO $$$ already run) ELSE (ECHO $$$ first run)
CALL :testfirst ###
IF DEFINED alreadyrun (ECHO ### already run) ELSE (ECHO ### first run)
CALL :testfirst $$$
IF DEFINED alreadyrun (ECHO $$$ already run) ELSE (ECHO $$$ first run)
GOTO :eof
:testfirst
SET "targetdir=U:\destdir"
SET "alreadyrun=%date:/=-%"
IF EXIST "%targetdir%\%alreadyrun%.%1" GOTO :eof
DEL "%targetdir%\*.%1" 2>NUL >nul
echo,>"%targetdir%\%alreadyrun%.%1"
SET "alreadyrun="
GOTO :EOF
You would need to change the setting of targetdir to suit your circumstances. U:\destdir suits my system.
The idea here is to establish a special directory in which to keep relevant data. I chose u:\destdir as that is convenient for me. %temp% or %tmp% may be an obvious choice, but these can be arbitrarily cleared at any time, so are probably not the best.
The mainline portion shows two different procedures being "run" called ### and $$$ - the names are not important and can be almost anything you like. The critical portion is the :testfirst subroutine (which I've written as an internal subroutine, but could be an independent batch file if you prefer - just change the call :testfirst to call testfirst)
This routine sets the variable alreadyrun to the current date with the / characters transformed to - as / is not a valid filename character.
Then see whether the file (transformed date).%1 exists in the selected directory (where %1 is replaced by the argument provided - ### and $$$ in the example). If it does, simply terminate the routine and return with alreadyrun set to a value.
If the file does not exist, delete any files with the same ### extension from the directory (they were created yesterday or before) and create a new (today).### file. Then delete the environment variable alreadyrun.
The calling routing will then see alreayrun as being undefined (not already run) or defined (already been run today) which should fulfill your need.
Related
I have 30 different folders which I need to iterate thru, within each one there’s a Log folder and inside that, are the text files. I’m after the latest one, which I need to copy to the new location with the preferred name (E.G. 2020-03-28.txt.FolderServerName1, where appended variable FolderServerName1, identifies from which server it came from)
set source="\\ServerName\LogFolders"
set target=" C:\Data\CopiedLogFiles"
FolderServerName1
Log
2020-03-26.txt
2020-03-27.txt
**2020-03-28.txt**
FolderServerName2
Log
2020-03-26.txt
2020-03-27.txt
**2020-03-28.txt**
FolderServerName3
Log
2020-03-26.txt
2020-03-27.txt
**2020-03-28.txt**
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120801-00/?p=6993
The post above is very useful, but I think I need another nested loop within, which I'm struggling with syntactically.
Thank You so much!
This file copying task can be done with:
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
for /D %%I in ("\\ServerName\LogFolders\*") do (
set "CopyDone="
for /F "delims=" %%J in ('dir "%%I\Log\20??-??-??.txt" /A-D-H /B /O-N 2^>nul') do if not defined CopyDone (
copy /Y "%%I\Log\%%J" "C:\Data\CopiedLogFiles\%%~nJ_%%~nxI%%~xJ" >nul
set "CopyDone=1"
)
)
endlocal
For each non-hidden subdirectory in \\ServerName\LogFolders the outer FOR loop first deletes the environment variable CopyDone and runs one more FOR loop.
The inner FOR loop starts in background one more command process using %ComSpec% /c and the command line enclosed in ' as additional commands. So executed with Windows installed into C:\Windows is in background for example:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c dir "\\ServerName\LogFolders\FolderServerName1\Log\20??-??-??.txt" /A-D /B /O-N 2>nul
The command DIR searches in specified directory
only for non-hidden files because of option /A-D-H (attribute not directory and not hidden)
with a file name matching the wildcard pattern 20??-??-??.txt
and outputs in bare format because of option /B just each file name with extension without path
ordered reverse by name because of option /O-N
to handle STDOUT (standard output) of the background command process.
The reverse output sorted alphabetically by name results for the log file names that 2020-03-28.txt is output on first line, 2020-03-27.txt on second line and 2020-03-26.txt on third line.
It could be that the subdirectory Log does not exist at all or does not contain any file matching the wildcard pattern. In this case command DIR outputs an error message to handle STDERR (standard error) which is suppressed by redirecting it to device NUL with 2>nul.
Read the Microsoft article about Using command redirection operators for an explanation of 2>nul. The redirection operator > must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded dir command line with using a separate command process started in background.
The command process processing the batch file captures everything written to handle STDOUT of background command process and FOR processes this captured output line by line after started cmd.exe terminated itself.
FOR ignores empty lines which do not occur here.
FOR would split up by default each line into substrings using normal space and horizontal tab character as string delimiters, would next look if first substring starts with default end of line character ; in which case the line would be also ignored and otherwise would assign just first space/tab delimited string to specified loop variable. It would be possible here to use this default line processing behavior as the file names do not contain a space character. But it is nevertheless better to disable line splitting behavior by using delims= to define an empty list of string delimiters.
So the inner FOR assigns on first loop iteration the file name of newest file according to international formatted date in file name to loop variable J and runs the command IF.
On first loop iteration of the inner FOR loop the environment variable CopyDone is always not defined as made sure on the command line above and so the IF condition is true.
For that reason the file is copied which means for first folder FolderServerName1 that the executed COPY command is:
copy /Y "\\ServerName\LogFolders\FolderServerName1\Log\2020-03-28.txt" "C:\Data\CopiedLogFiles\2020-03-28_FolderServerName1.txt" >nul
The target file name is modified from requested 2020-03-28.txt.FolderServerName1 to 2020-03-28_FolderServerName1.txt. It is in general better to use a dot in the name of a file just once as separator between file name and file extension and keep the file extension at end of the name of the file to be able to open the file with a double click.
The environment variable CopyDone is defined with a value after the file copying is done without verification on success. The string value assigned to environment variable CopyDone does not matter in this case.
The inner FOR continues processing the captured lines by assigning one file name after the other to loop variable J and running the IF condition. But this condition is not true for any other file name than the first file name.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
copy /?
dir /?
echo /?
endlocal /?
for /?
if /?
set /?
setlocal /?
My Problem
As there are a ton of threads that address 'using a batch file to return file modify date' (or delete files older than, etc) - let me first specify my issue.
I'm looking to create a batch (not PowerShell, etc) that will return the last modify date of a specific file given UNC path and filename.
Code, Attempt 1
I've taken a peek at a few potential solutions on other threads, but I've run into a number of unique issues. The first and most obvious solution for this would be the "ForFiles" command in batch. For example:
set myPath=\\myUNCpath
set myFile=myFileName.csv
forfiles /p "%myPath%" /m %myFile% /c "GoTo OldFile" /d -6
Thus, if the file is older than I want -- jump to a specific section of my batch for that. However, this yields the error:
ERROR: UNC paths (\machine\share) are not supported.
However, this cmd won't work due to the use of UNC (which is critical as this batch is called by system's task scheduler). So it seems like the 'ForFiles' cmd is out.
Code, Attempt 2
I could go a more round about way of doing it, but simply retrieving the last modified date of the file (which in batch would return a string). I can truncate the string to the necessary date values, convert to a date, and then compare to current date. To do that, I've also looked into just using a for loop such as:
set myFile=\\myUNCpath\myFileName.csv
echo %myFile%
pause
FOR %%f IN (%myFile%) DO SET myFileDate=%%~tf
echo %myFileDate%
pause
Though my first debug echo provides the proper full file name, my second debug just returns ECHO is off., which tells me it's either not finding the file or the for loop isn't returning the file date. Not sure why.
I've also tried minor changes to this just to double check environmental variable syntax:
FOR %%f IN (%myFile%) DO SET myFileDate=%%~ta
Returns %ta
And finally:
FOR %%f IN (%myFile%) DO SET myFileDate=%~ta
Which without the extra '%', just crashes the batch.
I'm really at a loss at this point. So any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Using forfiles to a UNC path can be used using PushD
For just echoing the file older than x in UNC path, simply just use
PushD %myPath% &&(
forfiles -s -m %myFile% -d -6 -c "cmd /c echo /q #file
) & PopD
Here is one way how to use goto if file older than x found in UNC path using your examples.
if not exist "C:\temp" mkdir C:\temp
if not exist "C:\temp\test.txt" echo.>"c:\temp\test.txt"
break>"c:\temp\test.txt"
set myPath=\\myUNCpath
set myFile=myFileName.csv
PushD %myPath% &&(
forfiles -s -m %myFile% -d -6 -c "cmd /c echo /q #file >> c:\temp\test.txt"
) & PopD
for /f %%i in ("C:\temp\test.txt") do set size=%%~zi
if %size% gtr 0 goto next
:next
Huge thanks to both #Squashman and #MadsTheMan for the help. Luckily this batch finally is the piece of code that I can take to my boss to push switching over to at least using PowerShell!
Anyway, for those of you looking for the best way to get a UNC path file's modify date, here is what I've come up with. Not very different than other threads (and a thanks goes out to Squashman for spotting my missing " " in the for loop).
set myFile=\\myUNCpath\myFileName.ext
FOR %%f IN ("%myFile%") DO SET myFileDate=%%~tf
::And if you'd like to try to do long winded calculations you can further break the dates down via...
set fileMonth=%myFileDate:~0,2%
set fileDay=%myFileDate:~3,2%
set fileYear=%myFileDate:~6,4%
set currentDate=%date%
set currentMonth=%currentDate:~4,2%
set currentDay=%currentDate:~7,2%
set currentYear=%currentDate:~10,4%
The plan was to then convert the strings to integers, and then use a switch-case block to determine if the variance between dates was acceptable... blah blah blah.
Long story short - if you are limited to batch (and not creating secondary files -- such as a csv or the temp file suggested by MadsTheMan) you're going to have a really long script on your hands that still might have flaws (like leap year, etc unless you're adding even MORE code), when you could just make the comparison calculation using one line of code in other programs.
I am running below command to run Soapui Test suite and it is working fine
testrunner.bat -s"TestSuite4" "D:\Invesco\JP Groovy Code\ExploreGroovy.xml"
I ahve also used with below command and it is working fine as well
testrunner.bat -s"TestSuite4" "%USERPROFILE%\ExploreGroovy.xml"
Now I have added one Envrionment variable 'EnvP' and its value id 'D:\Invesco' and tried with following command but it is not working.
testrunner.bat -s"TestSuite4" "%EnvP%\ExploreGroovy.xml"
Can some one help me in this. I don't want to give hard coded path of any drive. Please suggest if anyone has any other solution.
Thanks.
the process starting testrunner.bat (probably explorer.exe?) must
know about the new variable. have you tried logging out and in again
after setting it?
if it is cmd, try finding the variable with set | find "EnvP". If it is not there, you need to start a new cmd session.
Use these commands and you should see why it fails:
#echo "%EnvP%"
#if not exist "%EnvP%\ExploreGroovy.xml" #echo Ouch!
#pause
testrunner.bat -s"TestSuite4" "%EnvP%\ExploreGroovy.xml"
#pause
For all my SoapUI projects I have multiple .bat scripts in the same location as the project.xml file to run different sets of test suites, and all of it goes into your source repository.
IF NOT DEFINED SOAPUI_ROOT SET SOAPUI_ROOT=%ProgramFiles%\SmartBear\soapUI-Pro-4.6.4
REM make certain we are where we _think_ we are
CD %~dp0
REM cleanup previous results
DEL /f /q *.log*
RMDIR /s /q results
REM run the tests
CALL "%SOAPUI_ROOT%\bin\testrunner.bat" -s"Smoke TestSuite" -fresults My-soapui-project.xml
REM determine if there are failures
IF errorlevel 0 (
ECHO All tests passed.
PAUSE
EXIT 0
) ELSE (
ECHO There are failures!
PAUSE
EXIT 100
)
I'm trying to figure out how to create a new folder that has the date, not time, appended to the end of the directory name. I just need the current time of creation, and nothing more.
Trying to use something really basic like the following as an example...
if exists CNC_%date% goto EXIST
if not exists CNC_%date% goto CREATE
:CREATE
mkdir CNC_%date%
:EXIST
echo Folder already exists!
echo Check directory and rename it to prevent loss of data.
echo.
echo Press any key to exit.
pause >nul
goto END
:CREATE
echo Creation successful!
echo Press any key to exit.
pause >nul
:END
exit
... results in the creation of a nested directory like "C:\"CNC_Fri 11"\22\2013" because of the backslashes.
IS there any way to pipe the backslashes through a native Windows program, and switch them with underscores? In Linux grep would have been my answer, but I need a native Windows method as this needs to be portable.
mkdir cnc_%date:/=_%
Use the date variable with the slashs replaced with underscore
Im searching a tool which allows me to specify some folders as "bookmarks" and than access them on the commandline (on Windows XP) via a keyword. Something like:
C:\> go home
D:\profiles\user\home\> go svn-project1
D:\projects\project1\svn\branch\src\>
I'm currently using a bunch of batch files, but editing them by hand is a daunting task. On Linux there is cdargs or shell bookmarks but I haven't found something on windows.
Thanks for the Powershell suggestion, but I'm not allowed to install it on my box at work, so it should be a "classic" cmd.exe solution.
What you are looking for is called DOSKEY
You can use the doskey command to create macros in the command interpreter. For example:
doskey mcd=mkdir "$*"$Tpushd "$*"
creates a new command "mcd" that creates a new directory and then changes to that directory (I prefer "pushd" to "cd" in this case because it lets me use "popd" later to go back to where I was before)
The $* will be replaced with the remainder of the command line after the macro, and the $T is used to delimit the two different commands that I want to evaluate. If I typed:
mcd foo/bar
at the command line, it would be equivalent to:
mkdir "foo/bar"&pushd "foo/bar"
The next step is to create a file that contains a set of macros which you can then import by using the /macrofile switch. I have a file (c:\tools\doskey.macros) which defines the commands that I regularly use. Each macro should be specified on a line with the same syntax as above.
But you don't want to have to manually import your macros every time you launch a new command interpreter, to make it happen automatically, just open up the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun and set the value to be doskey /macrofile "c:\tools\doskey.macro". Doing this will make sure that your macros are automatically predefined every time you start a new interpreter.
Extra thoughts:
- If you want to do other things in AutoRun (like set environment parameters), you can delimit the commands with the ampersand. Mine looks like: set root=c:\SomeDir&doskey /macrofile "c:\tools\doskey.macros"
- If you prefer that your AutoRun settings be set per-user, you can use the HKCU node instead of HKLM.
- You can also use doskey to control things like the size of the command history.
- I like to end all of my navigation macros with \$* so that I can chain things together
- Be careful to add quotes as appropriate in your macros if you want to be able to handle paths with spaces in them.
I was looking for this exact functionality, for simple cases. Couldn't find a solution, so I made one myself:
#ECHO OFF
REM Source found on https://github.com/DieterDePaepe/windows-scripts
REM Please share any improvements made!
REM Folder where all links will end up
set WARP_REPO=%USERPROFILE%\.warp
IF [%1]==[/?] GOTO :help
IF [%1]==[--help] GOTO :help
IF [%1]==[/create] GOTO :create
IF [%1]==[/remove] GOTO :remove
IF [%1]==[/list] GOTO :list
set /p WARP_DIR=<%WARP_REPO%\%1
cd %WARP_DIR%
GOTO :end
:create
IF [%2]==[] (
ECHO Missing name for bookmark
GOTO :EOF
)
if not exist %WARP_REPO%\NUL mkdir %WARP_REPO%
ECHO %cd% > %WARP_REPO%\%2
ECHO Created bookmark "%2"
GOTO :end
:list
dir %WARP_REPO% /B
GOTO :end
:remove
IF [%2]==[] (
ECHO Missing name for bookmark
GOTO :EOF
)
if not exist %WARP_REPO%\%2 (
ECHO Bookmark does not exist: %2
GOTO :EOF
)
del %WARP_REPO%\%2
GOTO :end
:help
ECHO Create or navigate to folder bookmarks.
ECHO.
ECHO warp /? Display this help
ECHO warp [bookmark] Navigate to existing bookmark
ECHO warp /remove [bookmark] Remove an existing bookmark
ECHO warp /create [bookmark] Navigate to existing bookmark
ECHO warp /list List existing bookmarks
ECHO.
:end
You can list, create and delete bookmarks. The bookmarks are stored in text files in a folder in your user directory.
Usage (copied from current version):
A folder bookmarker for use in the terminal.
c:\Temp>warp /create temp # Create a new bookmark
Created bookmark "temp"
c:\Temp>cd c:\Users\Public # Go somewhere else
c:\Users\Public>warp temp # Go to the stored bookmark
c:\Temp>
Every warp uses a pushd command, so you can trace back your steps using popd.
c:\Users\Public>warp temp
c:\Temp>popd
c:\Users\Public>
Open a folder of a bookmark in explorer using warp /window <bookmark>.
List all available options using warp /?.
With just a Batch file, try this... (save as filename "go.bat")
#echo off
set BookMarkFolder=c:\data\cline\bookmarks\
if exist %BookMarkFolder%%1.lnk start %BookMarkFolder%%1.lnk
if exist %BookMarkFolder%%1.bat start %BookMarkFolder%%1.bat
if exist %BookMarkFolder%%1.vbs start %BookMarkFolder%%1.vbs
if exist %BookMarkFolder%%1.URL start %BookMarkFolder%%1.URL
Any shortcuts, batch files, VBS Scripts or Internet shortcuts you put in your bookmark folder (in this case "c:\data\cline\bookmarks\" can then be opened / accessed by typing "go bookmarkname"
e.g. I have a bookmark called "stack.url". Typing go stack takes me straight to this page.
You may also want to investigate Launchy
With PowerShell you could add the folders as variables in your profile.ps1 file, like:
$vids="C:\Users\mabster\Videos"
Then, like Unix, you can just refer to the variables in your commands:
cd $vids
Having a list of variable assignments in the one ps1 file is probably easier than maintaining separate batch files.
Another alternative approach you may want to consider could be to have a folder that contains symlinks to each of your projects or frequently-used directories. So you can do something like
cd \go\svn-project-1
cd \go\my-douments
Symlinks can be made on a NTFS disk using the Junction tool
Without Powershell you can do it like this:
C:\>set DOOMED=c:\windows
C:\>cd %DOOMED%
C:\WINDOWS>
Crono wrote:
Are Environment variables defined via "set" not meant for the current session only? Can I persist them?
They are set for the current process, and by default inherited by any process that it creates. They are not persisted to the registry. Their scope can be limited in cmd scripts with "setlocal" (and "endlocal").
Environment variables?
set home=D:\profiles\user\home
set svn-project1=D:\projects\project1\svn\branch\src
cd %home%
On Unix I use this along with popd/pushd/cd - all the time.