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• soon.cmd/soon.bat using schtasks.exe
  2005-07-22 16:40:50  JacG [View]
  
  

  Great lil' piece of code!

  
  
  

  Here's a slightly modified version that uses schtasks.exe instead of at.exe. The advantage of schtasks.exe is that you can set a user name and password. For example, I am going to use this to make a remote system backup its system state (see example below) and that's simply impossible with at.exe because at.exe runs without the needed access rights.

  
  
  
@if (%_echo%)==() echo off
setlocal

if (%1)==() goto Usage
set _command=%1

if not (%2)==() set _command=%_command% /s %2
if not (%3)==() set _command=%_command% /u %3
if not (%4)==() set _command=%_command% /p %4

for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=:." %%i in ("%time%") do call :DoIt %%i %%j %%k
goto :EOF

:DoIt
rem %1 = hour
rem %2 = minute
rem %3 = second
set _hour=%1
if (%_hour:~0,1%)==(0) set _hour=%_hour:~1%
set _minute=%2
if (%_minute:~0,1%)==(0) set _minute=%_minute:~1%
set /a _minute+=1
if %3 GEQ 55 set /a _minute+=1
if %_minute% LSS 60 goto :DontFixMinute
set /a _minute-=60
set /a _hour+=1
:DontFixMinute
if %_hour% LSS 24 goto :DontFixHour
set /a _hour-=24
:DontFixHour
rem schedule it
schtasks /create /st %_hour%:%_minute% /sc once /z /tn "Scheduled by %username% on %computername% with %0" /it /tr %_command%
rem print the current time
time < nul | findstr -i current
goto :EOF

:Usage
echo use: %0 "command [parameters]" [server [user [password]]]
goto :EOF

  
  

  Example

  
  
  soon "ntbackup backup systemstate /f \\backupserver\backup\state.bkf" remoteserver administrator secret
  

• more great stuff!
  2004-11-30 12:11:46  dcorrell [View]
  
  
  BTW Does anyone have a nifty hack be it script or app to auto download and extract text from mutiple links in an html document or URL? Hand surfing cutting and pasting seems rather crude but shame on me my coding is limited to very basic and crude C, too bad I cut class so much way back when --- Since my Tech job moved to Mexico I am forced to be cheap er outsource, I like to create my own repair resources from surfing and web scavenging in hopes of going indy and start my own computer /repair service business here in not so rural anymore north Jawja. I found several, sort of usefull freebies by googling but the first was buggy and so poorly documented that Firefox threw a fit and I am not exactly sure if I may need to uninstall IE yet or not, and the next requires me to install .net framework first which I will, soon, but I am having too much fun scavenging, er studying all of the wealth of valuable tips on this Hacks web site.