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 http://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/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&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"

 

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

[mac_shinobi]

its just the scripts section , asker didnt specify batch, vb script, javascript or what , so I just thought id put a vbscript together

[kenchisho]

hey guys... i need help writing a script to convert files from raw to wav. I am using a tool named raw2wav.exe to convert/merge 2-file/2-way audio into a single wav file. The utility automaticly checks to see if files exist in the destination directory and does not convert them...

 

c:\

cd c:\program files\cisco\desktop\bin

for %%c in (..\..\desktop_audio\*.raw) do raw2wav "%%~nc%%~xc"

 

is there a way to add to this batch so the tool converts only files that have a create date of today?

 

just to mention... the file names of the raw files containt a timestamp in the and the naming is:

 

.To/From.raw

Edited March 18, 2010 by kenchisho

[superfletch]

One more vote for autoit.

 

Love it.