[Info-ingres] Windows Server and batch scripts

[Andy]

Paul - thank you - I found some of these useful.

Another emailing program to consider - 
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

Found this in a few of my dos scripts - not sure of the source - one line 
to grap date and time together:

for /f "tokens=2-8 delims=/:. " %%A in ("%date%:%time: =0%") do set 
"ymdt=%%C%%B%%A_%%D%%E"

Regards,
Andy.


On 3/08/2017 6:56 PM, pwhite peercore wrote:
> Hi Marty and all,
>
> I think the list server has not distributed my post with the attachments.
> If anyone wants them please feel free to contact me.
>
>
> All my scripts are regular DOS command scripts not Powershell.
> Yes you can use subroutines (messy) and call other scripts (easy).
> See for example, I make a lot of use of yyyymmdd.bat which sets a bunch of
> date stamp type variables.
>
> You can access CMD window thus:
>
> Server 2008 / Win7 and prior
> 	Start, run, "cmd" <enter>
>
> Server 2012 / Win8 and after
> 	WindowsKey, "cmd" <enter>
>
>
> Here is a resource I use to help me out.
> https://ss64.com/index.html
> Click on CMD.
>
>
> postie.exe here:
> http://www.infradig.com/postie.html
>
> alternative
> https://github.com/muquit/mailsend
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org
> [mailto:info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> Bowes
> Sent: Monday, 31 July 2017 8:31 PM
> To: paul.white at shift7solutions.com.au; info-ingres at lists.planetingres.org
> Subject: Re: [Info-ingres] Windows Server and batch scripts
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I've managed to look through those scripts...it looks like PowerShell
> doesn't do subroutines and you've had to make them using goto statements. Is
> that the case?
>
> Also, is postie.exe a home brew effort?
>
> Marty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul White [mailto:paul.white at shift7solutions.com.au]
> Sent: 27 July 2017 11:06
> To: info-ingres at lists.planetingres.org
> Subject: Re: [Info-ingres] Windows Server and batch scripts
>
> "it's more powerful than cron"
> and comes with some really annoying bugs.
>
>
> I've attached some examples I've used and enhanced over the years.
> Feel free to borrow or reuse - no warranty implied.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org
> [mailto:info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org] On Behalf Of Roy Hann
> Sent: Thursday, 27 July 2017 7:11 PM
> To: info-ingres at lists.planetingres.org
> Subject: Re: [Info-ingres] Windows Server and batch scripts
>
> Martin Bowes wrote:
>
>> Much to my horror I've had to install a server on a windows
>> box....Ugh, I feel unclean.
>>
>> How do you automate batch scripts to do basic maintenance such as
>> backups, modifies and optimizes? If anyone has a sample script and
>> some pointers on what the cron equivalent is on Micropox then I'd be
>> very grateful to see them.
>>
>> Martin Bowes
>   
> As Michael Cressy pointed out, the Windows Task Scheduler is what you need.
> As he also said, it's more powerful than cron.
>
> What he didn't say is that it can be a royal pain to diagnose and debug when
> something goes wrong. It's idea of success is doing its own job
> successfully, not your script doing its job successfully. "The operation was
> a complete success. Unfortunately the patient died."
>
> Working across multiple platforms I would not counsel you to invest any time
> in learning PowerShell. It is undoubtedly capable. It is vastly more capable
> than the DOS scripting language. But the learning curve is steep and long
> and you end up with a skill that is applicable only to Windows.
>
> I have become a bit of a fan-boy for Python (Python 3.5 to be specific),
> which I now use for all my platform-independent scripting.
>
>
>
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