Programming Question

[R Giskard Reventlov]

If I have a small repetative task I'll whip up a cmd file. Why not? Simple is best.

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

[gavindon]

I have been known to write one or two. and I have not been in the IT business all that long..they just have their uses and if it aint broke, don't fix it.

It used to be what you know that got you ahead, then it was who you know, now its what you know about who you know that gets you ahead. Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.

[richard_k]

Heh.. first job at a large computer firm I had was writing job decks and algol programs at Unisys. With punch cards! Cards were on their way out when I did this.. but you could still find folks with large card decks on their desks.

[richard_k]

I do, but I'm from fogey land just like you. To date I've written in bash, Korn shell, sh, .bat for windows, perl, etc.. just so much.. and that is just the scripting I've done (less than 1% of my total time at my job). At one time I knew all the intricacies.. but that is going on 15 years ago now.. my current most used would be bash... but I still find cause to occasionally write a short .bat script for automation of compilations, etc. (just last year actually).

[richard_k]

.bat files + the scheduler in later versions of windows is perfect for a lot of tasks..

[CPallini]

That means you liked more Unix scripts than the feeder bib.

Veni, vidi, vici.

[clientSurfer]

At my current job I'm having to alot of "bridging" work between .NET and a couple of Linux servers running MySQL, PHP and java. Believe you me in order to accomplish this I have to pull out all sorts of old tricks from up my sleeve: .bat files, PowerShell, bash scripts, baling wire and spit - everything short of polling some mounted volume on a mainframe at regular intervals to pickup some "flag file" that gets left there! WCF? P'shaw :laugh:

"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute  "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave  "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon   It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011

[GenJerDan]

All the time. Well, a lot of the time. And .cmd files (which are close enough, right?)

No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

[Chris Losinger]

i do. shell scripts, and VBS scripts and .JS scripts, too. whatever it takes.

image processing toolkits | batch image processing

[Steve Mayfield]

I wrote and used one just yesterday - to compare the differences between two different project source file directories :thumbsup: I almost always have one or more cmd windows open on my desktop.

Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

[Brisingr Aerowing]

I use .bat files sometimes. Usually when I am writing a java program over the course of several shutdowns and startups and unexpected crashes (not too often), and don't want to type the compile and run commands over and over and over and over and over and ... well, you get the idea.

C#: public void GetOffOfTheComputer(){ throw new System.NotImplementedException(); } VB: Public Sub GetOffTheComputer() Throw New NotImplementedException() End Sub

[Gary R Wheeler]

Been there, do that fairly regularly. Our automated build process is a combination of an MFC GUI front end, a VBScript script, several batch files, and our tool chain (Visual Studio, Inno Setup, Nero, etc.). The batch files are useful for redirecting output to build logs. It sounds horrible, but it's a case of applying the right tool for each job in the process. I also use batch files for a number of administrative things, scheduled tasks, and so on.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Rajesh Krishnamoorthy]

There are lot :) Mostly to copy files from FTP

[Atique Rahman]

Me too have adopted powershell. It's funny that my first fun with computers started with batch files.. It's also funny how I came to computer science growing up in a remote country side area where a computer was not available within the perimeter of 7 km. I collected a book of norton which introduced me to computers.. I was just imagining how computers look like.. how different components work and how I will deal with this magnificent invention if I stand face to face. :) A year later I bought a book of DOS and my .bat started.

[Locust2000]

I do sometimes. When you want to push out a few commands to a batch of XP PC's through LogMeIn Central it's hard to beat a .bat file for ease, simplicity and compatability(powershell not always installed).

[Riaan Booyzen]

I still find use and write one once a week or so just on my dev machine. I use powershell on the servers.

[MustrumRidcully]

I still use them as part of scripting the installation builder process. (That process also uses Shell Scripts on Linux and Mac, ANT and - this is really shameful ;) - NSIS) I've learned a lot of magic about .bat files that I never expected them to be able to do!

[Pete B37]

I still use them because I couldn't be bothered (win32) to get eclipse to find the FLTK libraries to build under mingw/GCC so I wrote a build script, as I might in Bash under linux so every time I add a source, I have to add a another line and add entry to linker

[Member 2053006]

Three days ago. Batch file to delete WoW cache before starting the game. End of last month - batch file for running my entry into Facebook Hacker Cup (failed!) <----- Geek!

[smcnulty2000]

Writing them for a current job. I had to re-learn some things. Although I'm using the cmd extension instead of .bat. There is a need to use something that acts as glue in a complex system. In this case it had to be something that would be easy to describe in documentation to people downstream and that I could be sure would work in all the places I need it. Some of them are run from inside of T-SQL. Others are run on schedule. I have one that monitors a set of internal web sites and looks for key words to see if they are up or not. Another that's looking for a change in a particular directory. Supposedly I'll figure out how to do all this with power shell one day but for now I'm using batch files.

_____________________________ Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug... The difference between an ostrich and the average voter is where they stick their heads.