Once again, I am asking for your help to manage a small batch script.
As announced, in a previous post, I'm used to work on linux and automation tasks are more obvious to me but I have to work today under Microsoft environment.
Writting a Batch file is definitly not an easy things.
I am able with this script to be connected to a PostgreSQL database and load data via ogr2ogr. Until then, no problem.
Currently, the path of the folder is hard written in my code, but I would like to have the possibility of choosing the working directory through windows explorer.
Also, concerning this directory, I would like to have the possibility to process the subfolders at the same time.
Here, below the piece of my *.bat code:
TITLE Upload Shapefile Files to PostgreSQL
#echo off
cls
color 9
echo ******************************************************************************
echo * Upload Shapefile Files to PostgreSQL *
echo ******************************************************************************
set /P Host=Please enter your Server Host (default:localhost):
set /P Port=Please enter your PGSQL port (default:5432):
set /p Database=Please enter your PGSQL Database Name (default:postgres):
set /P Schema=Please enter your Edigeo Schema (default:public):
set /P User=Please enter your PGSQL username (default:postgres):
set /P Password=Please enter your PGSQL password (default:postgres):
For /F %%H In ("C:\Users\stephj\Desktop\SHP\*.shp") do ogr2ogr -overwrite -t_srs EPSG:2154 -s_srs EPSG:2154 -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=%Host% port=%Port% user=%User% password=%Password% dbname=%Database%" -lco schema=%Schema%
pause
Thanks in advance for your time and your help.
Ok, here is a way. This will just demonstrate by echoing the files, you need to amend it to follow your command structure:
Note!! This is a batch/PowerShell hybrid script. It needs to be saved with a batch file extension, preferably .cmd:
#echo off
set "pshell="(new-object -COM 'Shell.Application').BrowseForFolder(0,'Select Folder',0,0).self.path""
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('powershell %pshell%') do set "workdir=%%a"
for /r "%workdir%" %%i in (*.shp) do echo "%%~i"
I have the following batch file/script to backup a PostgreSQL database on a Windows 2012 server which works fine on two servers I have running. On the new server, it works but prompts me for the password. I recall I had the same problem on the other two servers but don't recall what I did to make it work some 4 years ago. Can someone help? I have searched all over including here and have not found the solution yet. I did not write the script. I was passed on to me some 4 years ago
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
REM The next line sets the following DayTime variables: DT_Day, DT_DayOfWeek, DT_Hour, DT_Minute, DT_Month, DT_Quarter, DT_Second, DT_WeekInMonth, DT_Year
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic.exe Path Win32_LocalTime GET * /value') do (for /f "delims=" %%b in ("%%a") do set DT_%%b)
for %%a in (DT_Month DT_Day DT_Hour DT_Minute DT_Second) do (if !%%a! LSS 10 set %%a=0!%%a!)
set Timestamp=%DT_Year%%DT_Month%%DT_Day%_%DT_Hour%%DT_Minute%%DT_Second%
echo Timestamp: %Timestamp%
set PGPassFile=%APPDATA%\postgresql\pgpass.conf
REM database/PostgreSQL Information
SET PRODDB=database_name
SET PGUSER=username
SET PGPASS=password
SET PGHOST=localhost
SET PGPORT=5432
SET PGBIN="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.5\bin"
SET BACKUPEXT=backup
SET BACKUPDES="C:\Backups"
IF not exist %BACKUPVER% (mkdir %BACKUPDES%\%BACKUPVER%)
REM formats can be custom/plain/tar
SET FORMAT=custom
SET GLOBALS=globals-%Timestamp%.sql
SET BACKUPFILENAME=%PRODDB%.%Timestamp%.%BACKUPEXT%
for %%a in (%PGPASS%) do (>"%PGPassFile%" echo %PG_HOST%:%PG_PORT%:%PRODDB%:%PGUSER%:%%~a)
#ECHO Backing up globals to %GLOBALS%...
%pgbin%\pg_dumpall -U %PGUSER% -p %PGPORT% -g > %BACKUPDES%\%GLOBALS%
#ECHO Backing up %PRODDB% to %BACKUPFILENAME%...
%pgbin%\pg_dump -U %PGUSER% -p %PGPORT% --format=%FORMAT% -C %PRODDB% > %BACKUPDES%\%BACKUPFILENAME%
REM del "%PGPassFile%"
So it was a problem with the ph_hba.conf. I had identical entries on a working server and the new server. It did not work. I copied the pg_hba.conf file from the working server to the new server. The backup/pg_dump script is running now without prompting for a password.
Strange
Does anyone knows how to control many command prompt windows through one . What exactly I would like to do is start many command windows and then run multiple commands in all of them through a batch file. Such as starting adb shell logcat in one, kmsg in one and if kmsg stops then turn red, and similar things.
For that I need to be able to listen to events from other command lines and also send commands to many command prompt one after the other.
Thanks your reply is appreciated.
If you know how to do it in perl that would also work. Plzz help!!
Updated;
Update Notes:
Took note of Jeb's suggestion and took his advice as well as Endoro's
Okay, this will be a little complicated because it needs batch files to write into some sort of file and another batch file getting / grabbing the data from said file. In order to do this, we must produce the "sender / terminal / MAIN window" for your batch file;
The script i am writing for you as of now can only support 4 Batch files being controlled by a mother batch file.
#echo off
:a
title Main Terminal
echo ---------------------------
set /p prompt1="Command 1: "
set /p prompt2="Command 1: "
set /p prompt3="Command 1: "
set /p prompt4="Command 1: "
if defined prompt echo %prompt% > com1.rsm
if defined prompt2 echo %prompt2% > com2.rsm
if defined prompt3 echo %prompt3% > com3.rsm
if defined prompt4 echo %prompt4% > com4.rsm
:: .RSM file extension means ReSource Module; I made it myself :3
goto a
Receiver
#echo off
title Reciever 1
:check
if EXIST com1.rsm goto get
timeout /t 1 >nul
echo Waiting for packet
goto check
:get
set /p prompt1=<com1.rsm
%prompt1%
del com1.rsm
goto check
Receiver 2
#echo off
title Reciever 2
:check
if EXIST com2.rsm goto get
timeout /t 1 >nul
echo Waiting for packet
goto check
:get
set /p prompt=<com2.rsm
%prompt%
del com1.rsm
goto check
Receiver 3
#echo off
title Reciever 3
:check
if EXIST com3.rsm goto get
timeout /t 1 >nul
echo Waiting for packet
goto check
:get
set /p prompt=<com3.rsm
%prompt%
del com1.rsm
goto check
Receiver 4
#echo off
title Reciever 4
:check
if EXIST com4.rsm goto get
timeout /t 1 >nul
echo Waiting for packet
goto check
:get
set /p prompt=<com4.rsm
%prompt%
del com1.rsm
goto check
You're welcome;
SonorousTwo
I've been tasked with updating an existing windows scheduled task. The task simply calls a windows console based FTP command using an existing script text file using the -s:ftpScript.txt syntax.
The problem is that the filename has changed and will now be based on the current date such as filename20110101.txt.
How can I get the -s:ftpScript.txt to understand that there is a dynamic filename now required? Do I have to recreated the "ftpScript.txt" file dynamically each time the task fires to then include a new static file containing the current date based filename?
I've now since followed my initial suggestion and it works perfectly. I've posted the following below in case it helps anyone else;
echo Generating New FTP Request
set request=Request.txt
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET month=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET day=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=3,4 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET year=%%B
set /A day=%day%-1
set yesterday=%year%%month%%day%
set file=<filename>
(
echo open <server>
echo <pass>
echo get %file%%yesterday% %file%%yesterday%
) > %request%
ftp -i -s:%request%
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 Show a popup/message box from a Windows batch file
and can ping continuously by
ping <servername> -t
But how do I check if it responded or not?
The question was to see if ping responded which this script does.
However this will not work if you get the Host Unreachable message as this returns ERRORLEVEL 0 and passes the check for Received = 1 used in this script, returning Link is UP from the script. Host Unreachable occurs when ping was delivered to target notwork but remote host cannot be found.
If I recall the correct way to check if ping was successful is to look for the string 'TTL' using Find.
#echo off
cls
set ip=%1
ping -n 1 %ip% | find "TTL"
if not errorlevel 1 set error=win
if errorlevel 1 set error=fail
cls
echo Result: %error%
This wont work with IPv6 networks because ping will not list TTL when receiving reply from IPv6 address.
The following checklink.cmd program is a good place to start. It relies on the fact that you can do a single-shot ping and that, if successful, the output will contain the line:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
By extracting tokens 5 and 7 and checking they're respectively "Received" and "1,", you can detect the success.
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
set ipaddr=%1
:loop
set state=down
for /f "tokens=5,6,7" %%a in ('ping -n 1 !ipaddr!') do (
if "x%%b"=="xunreachable." goto :endloop
if "x%%a"=="xReceived" if "x%%c"=="x1," set state=up
)
:endloop
echo.Link is !state!
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
goto :loop
endlocal
Call it with the name (or IP address) you want to test:
checklink 127.0.0.1
checklink localhost
checklink nosuchaddress
Take into account that, if your locale is not English, you must replace Received with the corresponding keyword in your locale, for example recibidos for Spanish. Do a test ping to discover what keyword is used in your locale.
To only notify you when the state changes, you can use:
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
set ipaddr=%1
set oldstate=neither
:loop
set state=down
for /f "tokens=5,7" %%a in ('ping -n 1 !ipaddr!') do (
if "x%%a"=="xReceived" if "x%%b"=="x1," set state=up
)
if not !state!==!oldstate! (
echo.Link is !state!
set oldstate=!state!
)
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
goto :loop
endlocal
However, as Gabe points out in a comment, you can just use ERRORLEVEL so the equivalent of that second script above becomes:
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
set ipaddr=%1
set oldstate=neither
:loop
set state=up
ping -n 1 !ipaddr! >nul: 2>nul:
if not !errorlevel!==0 set state=down
if not !state!==!oldstate! (
echo.Link is !state!
set oldstate=!state!
)
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
goto :loop
endlocal
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to test if a machine was up on my system and unless I have misunderstood, none of the above works if my router reports that an address is unreachable. I am using a batch file rather than a script because I wanted to "KISS" on pretty much any WIN machine. So the approach I used was to do more than one ping and test for "Lost = 0" as follows
ping -n 2 %pingAddr% | find /I "Lost = 0"
if %errorlevel% == 0 goto OK
I haven't tested this rigorously but so far it does the job for me
I have made a variant solution based on paxdiablo's post
Place the following code in Waitlink.cmd
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
set ipaddr=%1
:loop
set state=up
ping -n 1 !ipaddr! >nul: 2>nul:
if not !errorlevel!==0 set state=down
echo.Link is !state!
if "!state!"=="up" (
goto :endloop
)
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
goto :loop
:endloop
endlocal
For example use it from another batch file like this
call Waitlink someurl.com
net use o: \\someurl.com\myshare
The call to waitlink will only return when a ping was succesful. Thanks to paxdiablo and Gabe. Hope this helps someone else.
Here's something I found:
:pingtheserver
ping %input% | find "Reply" > nul
if not errorlevel 1 (
echo server is online, up and running.
) else (
echo host has been taken down wait 3 seconds to refresh
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 3000 >NUL
goto :pingtheserver
)
Note that ping 1.1.1.1 -n -w 1000 >NUL will wait 1 second but only works when connected to a network
thanks to #paxdiablo and #Jan Lauridsen
this is my modification to check and IP (local machine), good for case which connection is dropped either from dhcp server or any other issue, tested Under WinXP PRO SP3
checkconnection.cmd:
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
set ipaddr=8.8.8.8
:loop
for /f "tokens=5,6,7" %%a in ('ping -n 1 !ipaddr!') do (
if "x%%b"=="xunreachable." goto :endloop
if "x%%b"=="xtimed out." goto :endloop
if "x%%a"=="xReceived" if "x%%c"=="x1," goto :up
)
:endloop
set state=Down
echo.Connection is !state!
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
echo starting Repairing at %date% %time%>>D:\connection.log
call repair.cmd>>D:\connection.log
ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
goto :loop
endlocal
:up
set state=Up
echo.Connection is !state!
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1 >nul: 2>nul:
cls
goto :loop
endlocal
if no ping response from google DNS then start repair, i had static IP set for this purpose but it should work with dinamic as well.
repair.cmd:
route -f
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
arp -d *
nbtstat -R
nbtstat -RR
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
cls
My Best Regards
You can ping without "-t" and check the exit code of the ping. It reports failure when there is no answer.
Simple version:
for /F "delims==, tokens=4" %a IN ('ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 ^| findstr /R "^Packets: Sent =.$"') DO (
if %a EQU 2 (
echo Success
) ELSE (
echo FAIL
)
)
But sometimes first ping just fail and second one work (or vice versa) right? So we want to get success when at least one ICMP reply has been returned successfully:
for /F "delims==, tokens=4" %a IN ('ping -n 2 192.168.1.1 ^| findstr /R "^Packets: Sent =.$"') DO (
if %a EQU 2 (
echo Success
) ELSE (
if %a EQU 1 (
echo Success
) ELSE (
echo FAIL
)
)
)
I hope this helps someone. I use this bit of logic to verify if network shares are responsive before checking the individual paths. It should handle DNS names and IP addresses
A valid path in the text file would be
\192.168.1.2\'folder' or \NAS\'folder'
#echo off
title Network Folder Check
pushd "%~dp0"
:00
cls
for /f "delims=\\" %%A in (Files-to-Check.txt) do set Server=%%A
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
ping -n 1 %Server% | findstr TTL= >nul
if %errorlevel%==1 (
ping -n 1 %Server% | findstr "Reply from" | findstr "time" >nul
if !errorlevel!==1 (echo Network Asset %Server% Not Found & pause & goto EOF)
)
:EOF
I've modified PaxDiablo's code slightly to better fit with what I was doing and thought I'd share. My objective was to loop through a list of IP addresses to see if any were left on, and this code is to be run at the end of the last shift of the weekend to check if everyone is following the instructions to shut down all PCs before they go home.
Since using a goto in a for loop breaks out of all for loops not just the lowest nested for loop, PaxDiablo's code stopped processing further IP addresses when it got to one that was unreachable. I found that I could add a second variable to track that it was unreachable rather than exiting the loop and now this code is now running perfectly for me.
I have the file saved as CheckPCs.bat and though I'm guessing it's not proper coding practice, I do have the IP addresses listed below the code along with a description which in my case is the physical location of the PC. As mentioned by others you will have to modify the code further for other localizations and for IPV6.
#setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
#echo off
for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=/ skip=16" %%i in (CheckPCs.bat) do (
set ipaddr=%%i
set state=shut down
set skip=0
for /f "tokens=5,6,7" %%a in ('ping -n 1 !ipaddr!') do (
if "x%%b"=="xunreachable." set skip=1
if !skip!==0 if "x%%a"=="xReceived" if "x%%c"=="x1," set state=still on
)
echo %%i %%j is !state!
)
pause
endlocal
rem /IP ADDRESS0/COMPUTER NAME0
rem /IP ADDRESS1/COMPUTER NAME1
Some notes if you do need to modify this code:
for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=/ skip=16" %%i in (CheckPCs.bat) do (
The for loop is processing CheckPCs.bat one line at a time. Skip is telling it to ignore the first 16 lines and go straight to the IP addresses. I'm using / as a delimiter for no particular reason but note that if you are pinging web addresses instead of IP, you'll have to change the delimiter. Something like the pipe character | would work. Of course since the line is commented out with rem, rem becomes the first token which means I only want to work with tokens 2 and 3 which will be the IP address and PC description. The latter field is optional, you'd just have to modify the code to remove it.
You should probably modify the terminology used for state and for echo %%i %%j is !state! so that the terminology is clear and concise for you. If you want to record the state somewhere, you can just feed it into a text file by appending >> file.txt to the line. You might want to also add a date/time in that case.
Lastly, something people with proper training in coding these might know, the way a batch for loop with tokens works (in simple terms) is each section of the text is split up at each delimiter, the default being space, and then it is assigned to a %% variable whose name begins at whichever character you specify and then increases up the ascii character list. This means if I specify to start at %%i, the next token will be %%j, then %%k and so on. If I used %%B, next would be %%C, then %%D etc. There can be a maximum of 31 tokens per another thread I read on the topic.
Following #Dan W answer:
#echo off
set Server=192.168.0.18
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
:checkhost
ping -n 1 %Server% | findstr TTL= >nul
if %errorlevel%==1 (
ping -n 1 %Server% | findstr "Reply from" | findstr "time" >nul
if !errorlevel!==1 (echo Network Asset %Server% Not Found & goto checkhost)
)
I've seen three results to a ping - The one we "want" where the IP replies, "Host Unreachable" and "timed out" (not sure of exact wording).
The first two return ERRORLEVEL of 0.
Timeout returns ERRORLEVEL of 1.
Are the other results and error levels that might be returned? (Besides using an invalid switch which returns the allowable switches and an errorlevel of 1.)
Apparently Host Unreachable can use one of the previously posted methods (although it's hard to figure out when someone replies which case they're writing code for) but does the timeout get returned in a similar manner that it can be parsed?
In general, how does one know what part of the results of the ping can be parsed? (Ie, why might Sent and/or Received and/or TTL be parseable, but not host unreachable?
Oh, and iSid, maybe there aren't many upvotes because the people that read this don't have enough points. So they get their question answered (or not) and leave.
I wasn't posting the above as an answer. It should have been a comment but I didn't see that choice.
#!/bin/bash
logPath="pinglog.txt"
while(true)
do
# refresh the timestamp before each ping attempt
theTime=$(date -Iseconds)
# refresh the ping variable
ping google.com -n 1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo $theTime + '| connection is up' >> $logPath
else
echo $theTime + '| connection is down' >> $logPath
fi
Sleep 1
echo ' '
done