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  • S Simon_Whale

    I've used it twice last year, took me a while to remember how to pass arguments in though.

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    Dalek Dave
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    I am lazy. I could use a streamwriter within the code, call it and then discard it. But I don't. I just write the .bat and .txt and get call them within a shell in c# or vb. Bad habits die hard!

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      Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

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      megaadam
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      Rarely I do, yes. But I don't bat an eye when I have to.

      ..................... Life is too shor

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        I am lazy. I could use a streamwriter within the code, call it and then discard it. But I don't. I just write the .bat and .txt and get call them within a shell in c# or vb. Bad habits die hard!

        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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        Simon_Whale
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        I used it to run a XLST to PDF conversion application, using the commandline tool it take around 8 milliseconds to create the PDF and with .NET managed code upto 15 seconds decpending on the report. So it was a no brainer moment on which to use.

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        • D Dalek Dave

          Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

          --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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          S Houghtelin
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          Funny you should ask, I didn't write any but I got my new desktop this morning, and and used a couple to set up some of my complier envirionments. And I used the one to show hidden devices in the device manager to clean the crud out.

          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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          • D Dalek Dave

            Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

            --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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            Rage
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            Yes, I keep modifying my "Autoexec.bat". And my "Config.sys". :-D

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              Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

              --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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              Rage
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              He he - list of files in the current directory ? Nothing quicker than:

              dir /b >> list.txt

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              • D Dalek Dave

                Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                Slacker007
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                Dalek Dave wrote:

                Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                I do from time to time. Some things, never die.

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                • D Dalek Dave

                  Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                  --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                  BobJanova
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                  I generally only use them for trivial things, otherwise I'll write a short command line C# tool. I like the security of using a real language, and the .Net Framework's always in memory on my machine anyway so execution time is trivial.

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                    --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                    krumia
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                    We do, for automating lots of things. Setting up development environments, client installations/deployments. That old bats will not die for a while.

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                    • D Dalek Dave

                      Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                      --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                      Lost User
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                      I usually prefer using .bat files to do repetitive and trivial things. Btw, shouldn't this post be titled "Scripting question"?

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                      • D Dalek Dave

                        Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                        EbenY42
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                        All the time ... started calling them .cmd a couple of year ago :-D

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                        • D Dalek Dave

                          Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                          --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                          Corporal Agarn
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                          I write them on occasion. Then again I too am an "old fogy". :)

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                            Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                            --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                            leppie
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                            Dalek Dave wrote:

                            Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                            I do, but only basic stuff :)

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                            • L Lost User

                              I usually prefer using .bat files to do repetitive and trivial things. Btw, shouldn't this post be titled "Scripting question"?

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                              Dalek Dave
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                              You make a good point!

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                              • L leppie

                                Dalek Dave wrote:

                                Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                                I do, but only basic stuff :)

                                IronScheme
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                                Dalek Dave
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                                DOS stuff, not Basic stuff surely :)

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                                • D Dalek Dave

                                  Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                  --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                  Joan M
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                                  I'm BATman! :rolleyes: I still do it DD! and they work nice... truly I've always found it confusing to fiddle with vbs...

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                                  • D Dalek Dave

                                    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                    --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                    GuyThiebaut
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                                    I use them for moving a large number of files when working on version control...

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                                    ― Christopher Hitchens

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                                    • L Lost User

                                      What's odd about them?

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                                      Pete OHanlon
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                                      I discard the even ones.

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                                      • C CPallini

                                        Right: we young people just write a bunch of shell scripts or awk ones.

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                                        Pete OHanlon
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                                        Heck, I was writing Unix scripts before you were born.

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                                        • P Pete OHanlon

                                          I have been known to write the odd .bat file, as well as PowerShell scripts.

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                                          Eytukan
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                                          Though I'm supposed to forget .bats long before, I continue to stay in touch with them, at least to brag I'm a legendary coder. I've observed it many times, people who write .bat files are looked up as smart coders And the one that writes a little command prompt .exe in C++ or .net look dumb :-D Anyway I write the basic scripts, but when it gets complex, I ring up the old dino Gary :)

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