{"id":1416,"date":"2021-04-11T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:09:55","slug":"batch-files-still-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Batch files…still around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

i used to use a program from the M$ powertools called sleep.exe but recently i found a native solution. A ping to the loopback address takes a known amount of time and takes slightly less processing power than the old sleep.exe util. credit source<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ping -n 120 127.0.0.1 1>nul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use this in my redo.bat that i now have memorized<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:start
%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
ping -n 120 127.0.0.1 1>nul
goto start<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this was originally conceived because ping fills the screen and is impossible to tell if it’s still scrolling or its paused. but i found it useful for many other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for sending email from scripts blat.exe has been replaced with mailsend-go<\/a> Even tho it hates Gmail it works fine with M$.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following is an example that sends me memory stats from an old snowflake server. I still need a little help with the tail command, but i didn’t use too many brain cycles on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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set logfile=c:\\share\\hitask.log
echo “==============================================================” >> %logfile%
echo “==============================================================” >> %logfile%
date \/t >> %logfile%
wmic OS get FreePhysicalMemory >> %logfile%
tasklist \/FI “MEMUSAGE gt 100000” >> %logfile%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rem make sure the log file doesn’t grow too large, grrr doesn’t work right
: c:\\share\\tail -200 %logfile% > tmp%logfile%
: copy tmp%logfile% %logfile% -Y<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c:\\share\\mailsend-go -sub “VHG Term Svr Memory Report” -smtp smtp.office365.com -port 587 auth -user me@office.com -pass “ILikePie” -from “me@office.com” -to “me@office.com” -from “me@office.com” body -msg “A log file is attached” attach -file “c:\\share\\hitask.log”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example output:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sry too many NUL characters in DOS output<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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