I desperately need help to create a vb / dos code which will do the following:
Check if a command prompt window is running with the following command: mgms A1 (mgms is a custom command)
If it is running, exit.
If it is not running, start cmd prompt and run the command , exit
Thanks a lot for your help!
The Windows cmd.exe batch language is horrible, but you should be able to put this in a batch file and get it working:
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq mgms.exe" 2>&1 | findstr /B "INFO: No tasks running" > tmp
for /F "delims=" %x in (tmp) do mgms A1
You may need to further check that the command-line arguments to mgms.exe match what you expect -- have a look at the help for tasklist.exe and findstr.exe. Both programs are both standard in WinXP Pro and up, I believe. If you don't have them, I'm sure you can find them or (near) equivalents on the web.
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I have looked at many SO questions/answers and though some seem similar to my issue they do not seem to be. The answers given fix issues the questions were asking about but will not solve my issue.
I have a batch file...
#ECHO ON
ECHO Disabling the following... >> C:\App\Debug.log
ECHO - V1 >> C:\Apps\Debug.log
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'"`) DO (
Echo %%F >> C:\Apps\Debug.log
)
EXIT /B
When I run this file at the command prompt it works perfectly fine. When I run it as a scheduled task it show me the echos but nothing for the for loop as expected.
Yes I have made sure the username (using whoami) is the same for the scheduled task set up as the manual run that I do.
Yes I know the user running the script has rights to everything (file access as well as DB access) because it works fine running it from the command prompt.
Scheduled task is set to run wither user is logged on or not.
Any ideas what might be wrong or what I can try for debugging purposes?
Thanks!
sqlcmd is perhaps not enough. cmd.exe in environment of scheduled task may fail to find the executable using local PATHEXT and local PATH environment variables. The executable should be specified with full qualified file name, i.e. drive + path + name + extension. Then the batch file does not anymore depend on the environment variables PATH and PATHEXT because of all files are referenced with full qualified file name.
for executes the specified command line with starting in background one more command process with %ComSpec% /c and the specified command line appended. This means executed is following with Windows installed on drive C::
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'"
for captures everything written to handle STDOUT of started command process. The lines of captured output are processed line by line by for after started cmd.exe terminated itself. Error messages output by started cmd.exe or the commands/executables executed by Windows command processor in background to handle STDERR are redirected to handle STDERR of command process processing the batch file and printed to console. But there is no console window on running a batch file as scheduled task. So error messages cannot be seen in this case.
The for command line can be modified easily here to get also error messages written into the C:\Apps\Debug.log.
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1' 2^>^&1"`) DO (
The Microsoft article Using command redirection operators explains 2>&1. The two operators > and & must be escaped with ^ to be interpreted as literal characters on Windows command processor parsing the for command line before executing finally for which executes next %ComSpec% /c with the specified command line on which 2^>^&1 is changed already to 2>&1.
Does the log file C:\App\Debug.log contain with this modification following two lines?
'sqlcmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Yes, then no executable with file name sqlcmd is found by started cmd.exe. The best solution is referencing this executable with full qualified file name. See also: What is the reason for "X is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"?
Otherwise sqlcmd outputs perhaps an error message which should be now also in the log file C:\App\Debug.log.
It would be also possible to use following command line to let background cmd.exe write the error messages into a separate error log file C:\App\Error.log:
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`sqlcmd -j -S DOMAIN\SQLSERVER -U username -P password -d DBNAME -Q "UPDATE [DBNAME].[dbo].[table1] SET ColOne='V1_OFF' WHERE ColOne='V1'" 2^>C:\App\Error.log`) DO (
"tokens=* usebackq" results in first deleting all leading horizontal tabs and normal spaces on non-empty lines by for, then checking if the remaining line starts with ; in which case the line is also ignored and finally assigning the captured line not starting with ; and with leading tabs/spaces removed to loop variable F for further processing.
Better would be using the options usebackq^ delims^=^ eol^= not enclosed in double quotes which requires escaping the two spaces and the two equal signs with caret character ^ to be interpreted as literal characters by cmd.exe on parsing the command line before executing for. The line splitting behavior is disabled completed with delims= because of the definition of an empty list of delimiters. And no line except an empty line is ignored anymore because of end of line character modified from default ; to no character.
Finally a space on an echo line left to redirection operator >> is also output by echo and for that reason written as trailing space into the log file. Therefore no space should be used left to > or >> on printing a line with echo redirected into a file. But care must be taken on omitting the space character left to the redirection operator. The word left to redirection operator should not be 1, 2, ..., 9 as this would result in redirecting the output to these numbered handles into the specified file instead of the character 1, 2, etc. So if unknown text should be written into a file, it is better to specify first the redirection operator > or >> and the full qualified file name and next the echo command with the text to output. See also: Why does ECHO command print some extra trailing space into the file?
The three command lines with echo would be for this batch file:
ECHO Disabling the following...>> C:\App\Debug.log
ECHO - V1>> C:\Apps\Debug.log
>>C:\Apps\Debug.log ECHO %%F
following... is safe for being correct written into the file as also V1. %%F could be just 1 or a string ending with a space and a single digit and so it is better to specify the redirection first on the last echo command line to get finally executed by cmd.exe the command line ECHO %%F 1>>C:\Apps\Debug.log.
I wrote a script that launches a cmd window. Cmd window further launches several processes. What I want is that on closing the cmd window manually or using exit command, all processes launched via cmd also get killed.
Technically it is not possible to change how the exit command works. What you could do is make your own custom start and exit commands by having something like this:
Start Command Batch File: (context would be start2 program.exe)
start "" "%1"
if exist onExit.txt echo %1>> onExit.txt
if not exist onExit.txt echo %1> onExit.txt
Save that as start2.bat
Exit command BatchFile: (context would just be Exit2)
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (onExit.txt) do (taskkill /f /im "%%A"
exit
Save that as Exit2.bat
What those scripts do is keep track of each program you start with the custom command start2 and then taskkill them on your custom exit. You could have these files in the same directory of the batch file, or you could even have your batch file create these files with echo file contents> file.bat and echo more file contents>> file.bat. This is the best you could probably do without placing the actual cmd Executable in system32, which I would certainly not recommend since many other programs use it. Hope this helps
How to run a command in vmware using vmrun, command is (echo %PROGRAMFILES%) on the guest machine..
and the guest machine should return a value of the command result... how to do this??? please suggest
I needed to do something similar and found this unanswered question. Here's my solution.
#ECHO OFF
REM Set up abbreviations that we'll be using a lot.
SET VMRUN="C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws -gu Administrator -gp password
SET VMX="C:\Users\whoever\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows\Windows.vmx"
SET GUEST_COMSPEC="C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe"
REM Tried to do this in one line, but couldn't figure out the quoting.
%VMRUN% CreateTempfileInGuest %VMX% >%TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt || GOTO :CantCreate
FOR /F "delims=;" %%F IN ( %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt ) DO SET GTEMP=%%F
REM The batch file is a one-liner that echos the variable into a file.
REM It could be generated dynamically and copied to the guest
REM but I didn't want to complicate things any further.
%VMRUN% runProgramInGuest %VMX% %GUEST_COMSPEC% "/c C:\echo-ProgramFiles.bat %GTEMP%"
%VMRUN% CopyFileFromGuestToHost %VMX% %GTEMP% %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt
%VMRUN% DeleteFileInGuest %VMX% %GTEMP%
REM Do something with the result and delete the temp files.
TYPE %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt
DEL %TEMP%\GuestOut.txt %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt
GOTO :EOF
:CantCreate
REM Provide details on any problems.
TYPE %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt 1>&2
DEL %TEMP%\GuestTmp.txt
EXIT 100
And here's the batch file on the guest host. As you can see, it's pretty simple. I couldn't get redirection to work in runProgramInGuest (probably didn't experiment enough)
so I just pass the file as a command line argument.
#echo %PROGRAMFILES% >%1
Have a look at the vmrun commands here. You need the Guest OS Command runScriptInGuest.
I have not checked the command , but it should look like this. Please verify it.
vmrun -T server -h https://xps:8333/sdk -u user -p mypassword -gu administrator -gp guestpaswd
runScriptInGuest "[Vol1] win2008-1/win2008-1.vmx" "echo %PROGRAMFILES%"
I had to use runProgramInGuest
capture the output to a file
copy the file back to my host and use it
Thats the soln I used.
I am trying to install an application and a group of services using PSTools, but I want to take into account that the computer I am trying to connect to may be turned off or on a different network, which is not reachable from the internal network.
Basically if the machine is not able to be accessed through the admin share, this is the message that I am getting:
Couldn't access MachineName:
The network path was not found.
Make sure that the default admin$ share is enabled on MachineName.
This is the syntax I am using to try to capture the "Error Message" and then report back that if installation was successful or not (depending on if it can contact the machine)
#echo off
set /p name=What is the machine name?:
psexec.exe \\%name% -u *useraccount* -p *password* \\ServerName\installation.bat
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('COMMAND ^| FIND "Couldn't access"') DO SET Error=%%A
If "%Error%"=="Couldn't access"
ECHO Installation Failed.
Else
ECHO Installtion complete.
Pause
exit
Currently it hangs right at the point it's defining the Error Variable. Can't quite figure out what I am going wrong here.
'COMMAND ^| FIND "Couldn't access"' opens a command shell, which is why it hangs. It will not proceed until that shell is exited.
You will need to look at redirecting the error messages to another file. 2>Errors.txt on the psexec line will give you a file to search in the next line.
this will make the batch file look something like this:
#echo off
set /p name=What is the machine name?:
psexec.exe \\\%name% ... \\\ServerName\installation.bat 1>Error.txt 2>&1
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('FIND /i error.txt "Couldn't Access"') do SET Error=%%A
If not x%ERROR:Couldn=%==x%ERROR% (
ECHO Installation Failed.
) Else (
ECHO Installtion complete.
)
Pause
exit
(Also, notice the use of brackets to make a multi line IF)
the check for if will see if Couldn is part of the string, as a direct comparison will not work, as you would have to check against the whole string including the machine name
I am sure these has been asked before but cannot find clear instruction how to create a
batch file lets call it "Update Database" this batch file should
Execute sql scripts located in different folders
Execute another 3 bat files.
Any quick examples how to do it?Never done it before
thanks a lot
EDITED
Can I do this?
:On Error exit
:r C:\myPath\MasterUpdateDatabase.bat
GO
SQLCMD -S (Local) -i C:\myPath\InsertUsername.sql
I get an error:
"GO" is not recognized as internal external command
Thanks for any input
It looks like you're trying to use DOS commands to create a batch file that either (a) executes other batch files or (b) executes SQLCMD to run sql or a sql script.
Here are a couple examples all rolled into one. I'm using the DOS command START with the /WAIT switch, which will keep your original "master" batch file running in one window and execute the subsequent file or commands in a new window. That new window stays open until the script finished AND exits.
Some of the ECHOs probably aren't required, but the script will talk back to you for now, a little.
#echo off
So, this is pretty simple in the sense that you're just running the script. If you're script1.bat has break points, you can return an error back to the main script and have it end immediately. I wasn't clear if that was what you needed the master script to do.
echo Starting Database Update.
echo.
echo Excuting Script 1
echo.
start /wait C:\path\to\your\script1.bat
echo If there was a problem, break here.
Pause
echo Excuting Script 2
echo.
start /wait C:\path\to\your\script2.bat
echo If there was a problem, break here.
Pause
Here is where did used the same START /WAIT to run SQLCMD, which in this case just returns results from the query. One thing to note here is that the -Q (uppercase) runs the query and quits. If you use -q (lowercase) it will run the query and sit open in SQLCMD waiting for another query.
echo.
echo Running SQLCMD: "select top 100 * from sys.objects"
start /wait sqlcmd -S (local) -Q "select top 100 * from sys.objects"
And this is how you can run a sql script, which is what the -i denotes, but I also didn't run this in the START /WAIT as earlier. Not that you have to, but I wanted to show both examples. What this also shows is the -b will end the batch process if your script returns an error, which is useful if you're running multiple scripts that depend on success of the former(s).
echo.
echo Running SQLCMD from an (-i)nput file:
sqlcmd -S (local) -i C:\path\to\your\script.sql -b
echo.
echo Update Complete.
pause
End
So, I assumed you were looking for a .bat or .cmd file that utilized SQLCMD. The example I provided is pretty basic, but hopefully it sets you on the right path.
OH! And remember that CTRL+C breaks a batch script in process.
The actual error you're seeing is that the command line interpreter does not recognize 'GO', so you could just remove that line.
Hope this helps you :
sqlplus UserName/Password#DataBase #C:\myPath\InsertUsername.sql
P.S : Don't forget to add the command "commit;" at the end of sql file (InsertUsername.sql), this command order Oracle to save performed changes in darabase
This answer definitely works for your purposes:
sqlcmd -S localhost -U fdmsusr -P fdmsamho -i "E:\brantst\BranchAtt.sql" -o "E:\brantst\branchlog.txt"