Script to check if folder exists, if not, run a exe file

[tosca925]

I need a request for a script similar to my last one.

I need this script to look for a folder in

c:\windows\system32\foldername.

If this folder exists then i want the script to stop. If the folder does not exist then i want the script to run a .exe file from the server toinstall a piece of software. ie

\\servername\folder\software.exe.

There will be file sin the folder in c:\windows\system32\foldername but i only wnat it to look at the folder not its contents.

Any suggestions please.?

[Norphy]

if exist "C:\windows\system32\foldername" goto end
\\servername\folder\software.exe

:end

Should do it

[tosca925]

drop the above in a .bat file?

[ChrisH]

Yes put it in a bat or cmd file.
I couldnt be doing without my scripting skills these days it saves you so much time and manual effort it's well worth putting the time in to learn

[tosca925]

@ChrisH

I'd love to learn Chris, have you any recomendations for me to start as a beginner? Books or web sites?

I need basic on all sorts of scripting. I have lots of very useful scripts but i have only experience of tweaking other peoples scripts. lol

[Ric_]

@tosca925: Check out the Scripting Centre over at www.technet.com - IMHO the best place to start learning. Lots of examples and you can download a help file with the vast majority of the functions that you need - copy and paste and hack to begin with and eventually you'll be able to start from scratch (when necessary).

[ChrisH]

Theres a few resources listed in the scripting forum as well here

[SpuffMonkey]

I found Steve Rochford's Scripting 101 course that he gave at the Edugeek conference extremely useful - don't know if he'd be willing to let you have a copy?

[mac_shinobi]

any chance I could get a copy of that, after all it is christmas ? LOL

[GrumbleDook]

Resources are still available on the conference website.

[mac_shinobi]

const Folder_Path = "c:\windows\system32\foldername"
const Exe = "\\servername\folder\software.exe"

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

If FSO.FolderExists(Folder_Path) = true then
Wscript.Quit
Else
WshShell.Run Exe
EndIf

[nickje]

Resources are still available on the conference website.

http://www.edugeekconference.net/ind...id=7&Itemid=59

Is that where the resources are? I cannae see them!

[GrumbleDook]

Apologies ... most of the first conference is still held on the Wiki ...

a direct link to the 2005 conference is here and the scripting resources are here

[SimpleSi]

@tosca925
I've found AutoIt very simple to get into and I also use WPkg to deploy some applications and it has inbuilt folder/file checking to decide whether to isntall software or not.

regards

Simon

[PiqueABoo]

const Folder_Path = "c:\windows\system32\foldername"
<snip>

Less is more.. if you can do it with one line of batch file then that's usually the way to go. I'd do the one above, but with a "not":

if not exist <somepath> <dosomething>