liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 02:08 PM |
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DOS Help
Can anyone help me decipher this script?
@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "Directory Listing.txt"
exit
I know it generates a text file of the files in the directory in which it finds itself.
what do the %1 and /o:gn do?
thanks
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Madinventions
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 02:14 PM |
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The %1 is a command line parameter, so the user would type something like 'dir c:' and the script would replace the %1 with
'C:'.
/-p means do not pause after each screen of information.
/o lists the files in the given order. In this case, the given order is 'gn' which means 'Group directories first, then by
name'.
Finally, the '>' means route the output somewhere other than the screen - in this case it goes to your text file.
I love DOS and still use batch files like this every day!
In WinXP, click Start, then Run and type in 'cmd' into the box. This will give you a DOS box. Now type 'dir /?' and you will
get a list of all the options for the dir command.
Best regards,
Ed.
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m8kwr
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 02:15 PM |
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/o which puts directories in a specified order
:n which sorts by name, alphabetically
:g which sorts with subdirectories appearing first
HTH
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Madinventions
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 02:17 PM |
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Oh, if you wanted just a list of files rather than all of the othe time and date info too, you could put a /b into the file.
dir %1 /b /-p /o:gn > "Directory Listing.txt"
HTH,
Ed.
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 02:21 PM |
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thank you very much, i like them too
I would to use them more often
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MikeR
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 03:56 PM |
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I clicked on this link as I spent last week writing dos batch files in XP.
Reminds me of the old days and there are only a few of us left who can do it at my place. (ok, maybe thats a few who are prepared to do it).
Today .... i've been installing BUGZILLA! woohoo (the main bit of the whoohoo is the fact in 5 hours in between my normal work I've got it
installed where as one of my colleagues failed solidly over 3 days )
geeks rule!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 03:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
Today .... i've been installing BUGZILLA! woohoo (the main bit of the whoohoo is the fact in 5 hours in between my normal work I've got it
installed where as one of my colleagues failed solidly over 3 days )
He needs to raise this issue on the bug tracking system. Oh wait...
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stevebubs
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 06:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
I clicked on this link as I spent last week writing dos batch files in XP.
Reminds me of the old days and there are only a few of us left who can do it at my place. (ok, maybe thats a few who are prepared to do it).
Today .... i've been installing BUGZILLA! woohoo (the main bit of the whoohoo is the fact in 5 hours in between my normal work I've got it
installed where as one of my colleagues failed solidly over 3 days )
geeks rule!
Mike,
have you had play with MS' Powershell yet?
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Agriv8
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 07:48 PM |
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Had to look up the switch commands up but starting to show my age when i will still get a machines IP details from dos.
PS 1 I found the other day ping with a -t switch ( continuous ) fire 3 or 4 of these of on a test machine while doing networky stuff absoloute
godsend.
PS my wife has just called me a nerd !!! Yup and proud !!
Regards
Agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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maxey74
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 08:05 PM |
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I too am old, and as such, an utter command line whore! It has a certain cool factor though, at least it does if you're a professional geek,
like me
Some fairly technical guys here by the looks of it... Assuming some of you work in IT?
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stevebubs
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 08:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Agriv8
Had to look up the switch commands up but starting to show my age when i will still get a machines IP details from dos.
PS 1 I found the other day ping with a -t switch ( continuous ) fire 3 or 4 of these of on a test machine while doing networky stuff absoloute
godsend.
PS my wife has just called me a nerd !!! Yup and proud !!
Regards
Agriv8
For ping tests, go and get pingplotter ...
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 09:16 PM |
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I recently wrote a DOS batch script that did a particular copying job - my office is full of ace C# programmers aged between 25 & 35, and none of
them had seen it done before (which I found hard to believe, but there you go). They were all set to write a bit of code to do the same job, and
I'd done it in 10 minutes...
If like me you run a Linux box at home then the command line holds no fears, especially when you remember that MS-DOS is only emasculated UNIX.
Another proud nerd!
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MikeR
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| posted on 20/8/09 at 10:57 PM |
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Ok, wrote a batch file last week that .....
Scanned running processes and terminated one if it was running,
Scanned running "at" jobs (scheduled jobs) removed the ones i didn't want and replaced them with new jobs.
oh and it also renamed a file and took a setting out of the registry.
I was happy and so was my customer that it didn't involve c / delphi code changes as that would have to go through a different process &
take time / incur costs.
Stevebubs - i haven't played with powershell much at all, one of the 'old school' lads runs out entire build machine on it. Does
some pretty nifty stuff by all accounts.
Technically i'm not a geek, i'm a project & support manager. I just have a geek background (ex developer) and still love getting my
hands dirty.
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