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I created a lot of batch files when i was in BCA for my fun purpose. also created a small batch script to fool people and get their pass of novel
Ill try to search for it, if find it, ill post it here. Till then ill also find some more info about advance batch scripts. -
CHOICE Using choice to extract individual characters will work on all DOS versions.
School time! Type this at a DOS prompt:
choice /c12345
What you get is
[1,2,3,4,5]?
which is a demo of magic! (Go ahead and press 1,2,3,4, or 5) Choice has inserted delimiters (Commas in this case. Other delimiters are spaces, semicolons, and equals signs) between all our arguments. Well, almost. We need extra delimiters to separate the 1 and 5 from the brackets. So do this:
choice /c=12345=
Notice I used equals signs. Most people use semicolons. No real difference. You get this:
[=,1,2,3,4,5,=]?
Big progress. Now comes trick #2. Choice allows you to specify a prompt. You just add it to the end of the choice line and it shows up at the beginning of the output. Try this simple example:
choice /c12345 Pick a number
You get this:
Pick a number[1,2,3,4,5]?But we will use the prompt as a way to get a batch file name at the beginning of the line. Building on our previous example:
choice /c=12345= test.bat=
Which gives this:
test.bat=[=,1,2,3,4,5,=]?
Notice the equals sign after the batch file name? For increased readability, you should replace it with a space. But I can't show a space at the end of the line! It works either way (space or equals).Next trick is to stop choice from hanging waiting for your keypress. We can just echo in one of the choices. To make it truly generic, we'll use the equals sign (since 12345 will be replaced by REAL data later on):
echo = | choice /c=12345= test.bat=We now have a perfectly good command line. Let's go ahead and put this line into a batch file:
echo = | choice /c=12345= test.bat > temp.bat
Notice how I used a space after my "test.bat" instead of an equals sign. Our generated temp.bat will contain:
test.bat [=,1,2,3,4,5,=]?Now let's create a simple test.bat. Try this:
@echo off
tart
if [%1]==[] goto end
echo %1
shift
goto start
:endAll this test.bat does is display the arguments in order. A great generic test program any time you are working with multiple arguments! When we run our TEMP.BAT, it will run TEST.BAT and give us this result:
No we are ready to go fully generic. We'll assume we'll have a batch file that will be passed a word as an argument. The word will be %1 (the first argument). So we do away with the 12345:
[
1
2
3
4
5
]?
The first displayed argument is "[", the second is "1", and so on. So your TEST.BAT could refer to %2 through %6 to display the first five characters.
echo = | choice /c=%1= test.bat > temp.bat
So you just put the above line in a simple batch file and call it with a word (one word with no spaces) as an argument. It will create a temp.bat which will run a test.bat. You build your test.bat to do whatever you want with the individual letters in the word. -
Hi All Please Help me.......
QUESTION:
Return a value from a powershell script to a batch file and use this value in batch file?HiI posted this in earlier thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/a3cc3abe-25c5-48f6-a73e-6f6582d9a7e1 but could not find a working solution...
My powershell scripts looks like:
$finalCall="" function controlcheckonFiles([String]$source) { If(some condition) { do something $finalCall = "T" } If (some other condition) { do something $finalCall="F" } return $finalCall } function main { #write-host "argument" $args[0] switch($args[0]){ "HR" { controlcheckonFiles "HR" } "GL" { controlcheckonFiles "GL" } "AP" { controlcheckonFiles "AP"} "Remit" { controlcheckonFiles "Remit"} default { "check the arguments"} } sleep(6000) exit } main $args
I am running this powershell script from a batch file
It somewhat looks like below:
****running the powershell script by passing the command line argument 'AP' and setting the variable "var" with the return value**** set var=powerShellScript.ps1 AP ****applying condition on the return value**** If(var = "T") Run another powershell script Else Exit
Please help me in having the return value from the powershell script stored in a variable in batch file so that I can manipulate it further.
If need more details please tell me?
Thanks
