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cmd script to run in loop

The problem i have is if our application places 2 or 3 text files in a folder
when the batch script runs it renames all three text files with the same name envio.SND.
Windows will not alow 2 or 3 files with the same name in one folder. This is were i have a problem

Any help on this is appreciated

d:
cd mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum
copy *.txt d:\mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum\backup /Y

rem *********File send II ***********
:DEBUTII

Del envoi.SND

ren *.TXT envoi.SND ""I need the script to look at the first file rename it and then loop back and look at the first file again as the first file is delete once used.""

IF EXIST envoi.SND goto SUITEII

goto FIN

:SUITEII
d:\mqsysmon\mqgen d:\mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum\envoi.SND 127949 1026 E CSQ1 IRL
goto DEBUTII

rem ********* Fin ***********
:FIN

sirbounty

What's the criteria for the file being 'used' and thus deleted?
How soon before that happens?
Would a simple delay suffice?

Something like:

:DEBUTII

del envoi.SND

for %%a in (*.txt) do (
ren %%~na *.SND
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
)

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dagga007

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Is there anyway to pause the script to view what is happing

sirbounty

::show commands as they're processing...
@echo on

::or inside your script...
:DEBUTII

del envoi.SND

for %%a in (*.txt) do (
ren %%~na *.SND
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
pause
)

Darwinian999

As sirbounty has shown, you can insert PAUSE commands anywhere in the script to pause the processing at those points. To continue the processing once a PAUSE command has been run, you can press any key.

sirbounty

Of course, simply turning on the echo (@echo on)
will reveal the processing
and while the

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5

is running, you'll see the commands.
You can place a >null at the end to hide that one...

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > null

The -n 5 says to repeat 5 times (roughly 5 seconds) - increase as desired

dagga007

ASKER

for some reason it still wont pause, I added the line pause
to the end of the file

sirbounty

Which script are you using now?

dagga007

ASKER

your script

sirbounty

The entire script should look like this:

@echo on
d:
cd mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum
copy *.txt d:\mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum\backup /Y

rem *********File send II ***********
:DEBUTII

del envoi.SND

for %%a in (*.txt) do (
ren %%~na *.SND
call d:\mqsysmon\mqgen d:\mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum\envoi.SND 127949 1026 E CSQ1 IRL
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
pause
)

dagga007

ASKER

sorry its Darwinian999 script

sirbounty

Adjust it like this:

@echo on
rem Set an environment variable for the directory we are working with
set SRCDIR=d:\mqsysmon\irr\work\ifcsum

rem Copy the TXT files to a backup directory
copy %SRCDIR%\*.txt %SRCDIR%\backup /Y

rem Delete any previous file left by a failed run
if exist %SRCDIR%\envoi.SND del %SRCDIR%\envoi.SND

rem Process each of the TXT files one at a time using a subroutine
for %%X in (%SRCDIR%\*.txt) do call :SUITII %%X
goto FIN

:SUITEII
rem Rename the file passed as the first parameter to this subroutine
ren %SRCDIR%\%1 envoi.SND

pause

rem Process the file
d:\mqsysmon\mqgen %SRCDIR%\envoi.SND 127949 1026 E CSQ1 IRL

pause

rem Delete the file just processed
del %SRCDIR%\envoi.SND

rem End of the subroutine
GOTO :EOF

rem ********* Fin ***********
:FIN
rem Delete the environment variable we created
set SRCDIR=

dagga007

ASKER

Still having problems pausing the script, I'm on a Windows server 2003, would that have something to do with it or maybe the version of dos?

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