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"SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION pushd "\\render-2\finished videos" echo y | copy NUL /temp_blank.txt>NUL echo Running tribute ninja for %date%>/output.txt dir /b /A>/temp_folders.txt for /F "tokens=*" %%a IN ("/temp_folders.txt") do ( echo -------------------------------------------------->>/output.txt echo %%a>>/output.txt cd "/%%a" findstr /r /s "\<[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\>" "*.txt">/temp_tributeid.txt for %%b IN (/temp_tributeid.txt) do ( if %%~zb==0 ( echo ...no tribute ID detected>>/output.txt ) else ( for /F "tokens=*" %%c IN (/temp_tributeid.txt) do ( set line=%%c set id=!line:~-8! ::copy /V *.wmv /tributes/%id%.wmv echo ...!id! copied for upload>>/output.txt ) ) ) echo we are ready for upload...>>/output.txt popd"

This is supposed to find files on a network drive, read their text files for a variable, then copy them to another location (ftp - removed). I thought I had it working; but now it's crashing on line 9 (first FOR loop.) Any ideas?

10/11/2011 1:47:13 PM

Stop hating your life and use Powershell?

10/11/2011 2:00:33 PM

I don't think the command interpreter supports smiley faces yet.

10/11/2011 2:12:02 PM

^^the original version of this script was in bash... unfortunately it now needs to run from a windows xp machine....

that's : and D - it prints a list of directories to a file. Unfortunately DOS doesn't have very advanced controls for working with reading from files so I have to write like 5 different ones

10/11/2011 2:19:04 PM

You can install Powershell 2.0 on XP SP3!

10/11/2011 2:26:12 PM

You'll spend less time re-creating it in Powershell, rather than debugging that.

10/11/2011 2:57:36 PM

when I pushd a network share with the command line, it seems to automatically map it to an unused drive letter (Z: so far). Maybe after pushd stop using / like it's a network path.

10/11/2011 3:01:11 PM

got it fixed!

I have no idea what the problem was. I copied the text into a new file, saved, and it worked.

Editor must have been using an encoding winXP didn't like or something.

10/11/2011 5:00:51 PM