I'm trying to remotely deploy some software and I have a few batch scripts to help this process along. The basics of my process is to have a text list that scriptA goes through, scriptA copies the necessary files to the target PCs (retrieved from the list) and launches ScriptB. The theory would then be that it would move on to the next PC in the list as soon as ScriptB launches and doesn't wait for ScriptB to finish before moving on. The basics of what I have are below:
ScriptA:
Set /P List= Please enter the list name
Set /P Name= Please enter your username
FOR /F %%A IN (%LIST%) DO (
MKDIR \\%%A\C$\Temp\Install
XCOPY "\\share\necessary files" "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install"
PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install\scriptB.bat"
)
ScriptB just runs the installer and cleans up after itself.
Like I said, the goal would be that once scriptA has finished copying over files and gets things kicked off, it would move on to the next PC on the list. I've confirmed that everything works as is right now (so please ignore any random things that wouldn't work in the pseudocode above) it just takes forever because it waits for the installation to finish before moving on.
EDIT:
I realized I had the wrong files shown as being copied. What was originally listed as 'install.bat' should have been scriptB. I apologize, it has been very hard to try to get my question across as I'm having a very hard time describing the problem.
Per Request, here is how I was using start:
ScriptA:
START PSECEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install\ScriptB.bat"
It worked to start ScriptB in a new window, but what I'm really trying to have as the final product is:
scriptA gets prompts for the list of PC names
scriptA pulls the first name from the list and copies over the install files from a network share, including scriptB and puts them in \temp\install
scriptA kicks off scriptB on the PC it just copied files to.
While scriptB is running, scriptA moves on and copies the files to the next PC on the list and kicks of the next copy of scriptB
repeat until the whole list of PCs is completed.
I hope this helps to clarify things, and again, I apologize for the confusion. I have all of the steps listed above working as I would hope, the only thing that isn't working is that I can't get scriptA to kick off scriptB without pausing scriptA to wait for scriptB to finish and what I would like to have happen is that it moves on without waiting (so that I could start this script at the end of the day and it would continue installing at night until it finished the list of PCs).
Thanks again for any help!
You can use the START command to launch a command without waiting for it to end before moving on. Note that this will execute the specified command in a newly created command prompt, not in the same command prompt process.
Be aware though that if the path to your executable/batch file contains spaces, you must specify an empty string argument as the first argument. Example:
START "" "C:\Path with spaces\My other script.bat"
This is due to the fact that if the first arguments is surrounded by quotes, it is considered as being the title of the new command prompt that is launched to execute your new process. Specifying an empty argument (or the title you'd like to use for that matter) will work around this situation.
The further we are away from the actual problem, the less able we are to help. The more general the question, the more vague the response.
We're pointlessly mapping from "ScriptB" to "Install.bat" and you've claimed to have added the start command but not shown us where you've used it.
Using your original script, changing
PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install.bat"
to
start "installing on %%A" PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install.bat"
should solve the problem - but no guarantees.
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I am programming a DOS-like shell, but it starts in %UserProfile% instead of %UserProfile%\Desktop\Coding projects\CM-DOS.
The actual shell, kernel.bat's code is:
#echo off
type INFO.txt
pause
INFO.txt is in the same directory as kernel.bat (CM-DOS).
It says:
CM-DOS is a FREE, open-source Disk Operating System by Tristan
Carpenter. If anyone trys to sell you a paid copy of CM-DOS, send me
an e-mail at tristan4#mail.com. Please use this DOS shell kindly. This
shell is licensed under the MIT License. Do whatever you want with the
shell, create closed-source versions, fork it, I don't really care.
The script tries to type "%UserProfile%\INFO.txt", which doesn't exist.
How can I start the file in it's actual directory, instead of %UserProfile%.
If you run the script (clicking or navigating (cd <folder>) and .\kernel.bat) and the current folder isn't, well, the current folder, then something is off with either your console setup or there is an additional code executed in the background. Try to echo %CD% to see what the folder is and check the prompt string usually in the shape of:
C:\Users\Username>
which is the default path if you run cmd.exe as a user or:
C:\Windows\System32>
if you run as an Administrator / user with elevated privileges.
This can be changed though with regedit.exe.
However what you might be seeing is that you run your code (kernel.bat or however you name it) which might display the first path before execution or after the last command you might be dropped into a shell. Neither should be the case according to the code, yet it can happen if you started cmd.exe, then wrote cmd.exe (i.e. spawned another shell) and then ran your script.
What I suspect is that you're running the code like this:
C:\Users\You> .\Desktop\Coding projects\CM-DOS\kernel.bat
in which case the %CD% would be C:\Users\You and type command would be looking for C:\Users\You\INFO.txt. A better solution is simply creating a variable for the folder where your script is located - which is provided automatically, it's %~dp0 (echo %~dp0) and with that you can do:
echo off
type "%~dp0INFO.txt"
pause
to make it location independent, or better said, to access relatively according to the kernel.bat (the current script)'s location.
You can add cd %CD% and %CD% stands for the current direction. the final code would be
#echo off
cd %CD%
type INFO.txt
pause
this is my first post. I am using a batch command to check if an instance of my program is already running based on its command line argument. I am able to see if it is running by using the following code:
wmic Path win32_process Where "CommandLine Like '%Account A%' AND Caption Like '%Leads Manager.exe%'"
If the process exists, I will get a full break down of the process information, but if the process isn't running i get No Instance(s) Available.
I want to be able to run an If statement, so if the result shows No Instance(s) Available. I want to run a command without displaying the process information and if it does exists, I want to echo Account A is already running
Hopefully someone with more experience can point me in the right direction
Here's a batch-file example, which may help you out:
#Echo Off
For %%A In (A B C D) Do WMIC Process Where^
"Name='Leads Manager.exe' And Not CommandLine Like '%%Account %A%%%'"^
Get Name 2>Nul|Find "Name">Nul && (
Start "" "C:\Leads Manager.exe" -- "C:\Account %%A.ini")
This example uses the outer For loop to choose the Account letters, it is therfore checking to see if Leads Manager.exe is running with a commandline containing the string Account A, Account B, Account C or Account D, and if not it should run Leads Manager specifying the path to the appropriate account. (Please note that your .exe and .ini file paths both contain spaces, so I have doublequoted them, but left the rest of the command as you wrote it in your comment. You may want to consider checking that what you provided was correct and adjust it as necessary before testing, or replace that line entirely with a simple Echo Is Not Running) || Echo Is Running) statement, or perhaps run another batch file instead).
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thank you so much for helping me Jean-François Fabre, haveing someone who was thinking along with me kept me motivated to keep figuring things out myself!
what i ended up doing is using a timer script, that first boots up the scanning script, after 900 seconds of pauze the timer proceeds to open a vbs script that closes cmd and opens the timer again to do another 15 minute loop.
how to close a batch file with another batch file
C:\pokemongo-api-demo-maps>taskkill timedlocator
ERROR: Invalid argument/option - 'timedlocator'.
Type "TASKKILL /?" for usage.
currently using a runner script that boots up the batch file every 15 Sec (testing)
it wont close the batch script however
ive tried
taskkill/im cmd.exe
and
taskkill/im timedlocator.bat
the timedlocator gives the error, and the cmd closes the runner script aswell
that needs to reboot it, i cant seem to shutdown a specific cmd window without closing the other one, one solution ive tried is to make this timer shutdown script VBS and use this to shutdown CMD all together before rebooting it, but i dont know anything about what commands to use in VBS
original post
so basically i have a script that scans a area in pokemon go, unfortunately its about as unstable as it gets, so to fix this i need to reboot it about every 15 minutes, ive already tried a few things but got stuck in the end because im not very familiar with coding,
the original boot script script:
#echo off
set /p UserInputPath= Set Location-
C:\Python27\python main.py -u name -p pass -l "%UserInputPath%"
this calls the actual program that does all the work, after some research i found this How do I create a batch file timer to execute / call another batch throughout the day
and added this into the start of the script
start timer.bat
this opens a 2nd script to close and reboot after a timer
TIMEOUT /T 15 /NOBREAK
taskkill timedlocator
start timedlocator.bat
this leaves me with 2 problems i have not been able to figure out
how do i close the first batch without closing the timer CMD? ive tried messing around with taskkill and closing cmd alltogether, but this makes it impossible to boot it again
how do i automatically input a fixed streetname into the first file?
i have tried to replace the userinputpath with the streetname but that didnt seem to work.
setlocation-
at which point you enter a streetname, it sends this to the locator and it starts working,
what im trying to achieve is bypassing this first step and always send the same name.
any help with this would be much appreciated, ive been messing around w this for about 2 hours now and i have made some progress but ive seemed hit a dead end here with my limited computerskills
not sure of you're asking, but I'll try to answer anyway:
how do i close the first batch without closing the timer CMD? ive tried messing around with taskkill and closing cmd alltogether, but this makes it impossible to boot it again
You're taking it the wrong way round: create a script called runner.bat for instance and put this (untested)
:loop
start timerlocator.bat
timeout /T 900 /NOBREAK
taskkill /F /IM "python.exe"
goto loop
Your main script is started in background, and is killed and relaunched every 15 minutes (your 15 value is wrong timeout needs seconds).
how do i automatically input a fixed streetname into the first file? i have tried to replace the userinputpath with the streetname but that didnt seem to work.
=> remove the /P option and set the real value.
set /p UserInputPath=type_your_value_here
Specifically, I'm using DGIndex in a batch file as part of a sequence to do some video encoding.
Despite accepting CLI params, DGIndex pops up a window to do the processing. This then disappears when it's finished, but the command line hangs as though it's still open. The process is no longer running.
Is there something built-in that I can do to ensure it doesn't hang, or is there a third-party proxy utility that will monitor for a process end then close itself?
I had the same problem with DGIndex in batch files. I know this is an old question, but it seems DGIndex hasn't been updated since then, so this might still be relevant.
DGIndex has 2 different command-line "styles", in the manual one being called legacy (the one using upper case letters for the settings), the other UNIX-style (lower case letters).
For me, the "-exit" command of the UNIX-style command-line did not work, so that the batch file did not receive a corresponding message from DGIndex, even though it finished its job correctly. I used the legacy commands instead, and the problem was gone.
"Funny" that Dan had the problem with the legacy commands, so the other way round.
Regards, Mike.
You could use something like this:
#echo off
echo Running program
start dgindex -BF=[vob.txt] -FO=0 -IA=2 -OM=2 -TN=0 -OF=[out] -HIDE -EXIT
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
taskkill /im dgindex.exe /f
exit >nul
This batch file basically runs the DGIndex program and then pauses for 10 seconds before attempting to close the program. Just replace the 10 with a delay of your choice, something long enough that if the program is still running it means it's crashed, then it will be closed after the delay.
I'm pretty sure you can't tell if the program has hung or not (at least not in batch anyways). This at least makes sure it isn't running if you need to run it again if it did crash.
Hope this helps!
If you use start, the batch file should return immediately after starting the dgindex application.
You can pass the /WAIT flag to start to it to tell it to wait until the process has exited before moving to the next line of the batch file.
start /WAIT dgindex -BF=[vob.txt] -FO=0 -IA=2 -OM=2 -TN=0 -OF=[out] -HIDE -EXIT
I know this is old, but did you ever get it figured out?
I am using the tool 'HTML Match' to compare two HTML files. As I have to compare many files, I create a batch file like the followion. For example, I give only five sets of files.
cd "C:\Program Files\HTML Match"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a1.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a1.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a1.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a2.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a2.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a2.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a3.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a3.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a3.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a4.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a4.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a4.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a5.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a5.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a5.html"
When I execute this batch file in a cmd prompt, only the first line, that is, only 'a1.html', gets compared and produces a result. Then execution stops.
Add call in front of the commands you're running.
You can also change this to a for loop, so:
FOR /L %%i in (1,1,5) DO CALL HTMLMATCH.EXE D:\Raj\compare%%i%%\a%%i%%.html D:\Raj\compare%%i%%\a%%i%%.html D:\Raj\compare_res\a%%i%%.html
The answer to your problem is to write CALL HTMLMATCH.EXE (and the rest of the parameters).
Just use CALL in front of every executable command in the batch file.
I was looking for something really similar and tried, I think, all the replies left here but I finally found the solution to my problem!!
In my script I want to check if one process is running, if not, start it (a .exe) and then check if another process is running, if not, start it too (but leave all the programs opened) and the problem is that the first .exe was started but then not moving to the second one because it was waiting until the process ended.
It´s finally working for me with start and the magic comes with...
/separate
it works for me as:
start "program1" /separate program1.exe
other commands
Before it stopped after starting program1 because it was waiting until it was closed, I think, but this was not going to happen because I wanted to leave it opened.
Now with the start /separate it continues with the other commands.
I found it in another forum but the thing is that it´s the manual, /separate is used to start in another memory space.
You don't have to insert quotation marks where there isn't any space mark between.
Try that:
HTMLMATCH.EXE D:\Raj\compare1\a1.html D:\Raj\compare2\a1.html D:\Raj\compare_res\a1.html
Maybe it will solve your issue.