Few days back I was working on a script to automate project builds. And at one step I was required to checkout code from source control and build the application. Since everything was done using a single script there was no way I could prompt to user GUI because in this case it was just […]
Category: DOS
File Integritry verfication … using File Checksum Integrity Verifier
Lets say you download a file from internet and you want to make sure that this file’s source is legitimate (say you just downloaded new ISO of Ubuntu from their site). Or in another case you want to make sure that there is no corruption in file that you just downloaded from internet (now you […]
Archiving using 7ZIP commandline
Couple of days back I had to create a script to archive all files from number folders as part of bigger data transfer task. Since that machine was a bit of older flavor of Windows it didn’t had PowerShell, and I had to reboot machine is I wanted to install PowerShell so I decided to […]
Send Email in Batch File (using VB Script) without installing SMTP server
In my never ending desire to use Batch files to do just about anything, I was recently needed batch file to send an email to users once task is completed with “Success” or “Failure” results. And since I was already using batch files to do number of things, I thought it wouldn’t harm if it […]
If … Else in Batch file
If you have ever used If .. Else in batch file then you know that how frustrating it is to work with it. In fact if you google this case then you will find that it is very common belief that ELSE doesn’t exits for BATCH files !!! I think it is just because very […]
FTP connection using BATCH file
I really love DOS commands. They are so powerful and yet simple (most of the time). Few days back I was required to create a script to download files from FTP site to local folder, and this has to be done at scheduled time. I decided to use my all time favorite script language to […]
Infinite loop in DOS
Few days back I was working on some task and as a part of that I was required to run some command line utility. Now condition was to keep running that utility all the time and for whatever reasons it crashes it should start by itself. Now, I could do it by creating another application […]