Windows 10: Creating a Batch File Example

Hey All, I am not looking for someone to do the work for me, I'm trying to get a general idea of what I need to start at. It's been a few years since I've done a batch file and Windows 10 is so different than Windows 7. I am essentially wanting a batch file, that if I type a Store Number it will do a ping on the store's IP Addresses. (IPs were changed to DNS Servers to enhance privacy). Here's what I'm working with.. Below is what I get as the error. Ultimately, what I want is to type in the store number and it ping the VLAN Gateways as well as the Register, PinPads, etc. Each device gets pinged 4 times.. @Echo off :STRNUM set /p strnum="What is the Store Number?" If "%strnum%"=="09424" GOTO :9424PING :9424PING ipadd_vlan1gw == "8.8.8.8" ipadd_vlan2gw == "8.8.4.4" ipadd_vlan3gw == "4.2.2.2" ipadd_vlan6gw == "208.67.222.222" ping %ipadd_vlan1gw% pausegoto ING Again, I am not looking for someone to solve it for me, but rather point me in the right direction for me to do it myself. Would it be easier if I took the IPs and put them in a .txt file and have the batch script reference that? Any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Creating Shortcuts with Batch File

I've created a Batch file which calls on the following VB Script to be able to create a shortcut to my desktop:

VB Script (named createLink.vbs):
Code: set objWSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") set objFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' command line arguments ' TODO: error checking sShortcut = objWSHShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(WScript.Arguments.Item(0)) sTargetPath = objWSHShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(WScript.Arguments.Item(1)) sWorkingDirectory = objFso.GetAbsolutePathName(sShortcut) set objSC = objWSHShell.CreateShortcut(sShortcut) objSC.TargetPath = sTargetPath objSC.WorkingDirectory = sWorkingDirectory objSC.Save[/quote] Batch File Example (for Windows Notepad):
Code: @Echo off cscript createLink.vbs "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Notepad.lnk" "C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe"[/quote] But after creating the shortcut using this method, I'm not able to assign a custom icon for the shortcut. I get the following error message when trying to do so:





Any help and ideas on what I need to put into the VB Script and/or Batch File to be able to do this would be greatly appreciated! *Big Grin

Also, I know that I can simply do this by going to Start Menu\All Programs\Accessories\ right-clicking on Notepad and selecting Send to\Desktop (create shortcut). Easy enough for creating a single shortcut. But I need to create several multiple shortcuts and using this Batch/VBS method would really save me a lot of time in doing so.