problem howto???

[barne77]

hi does anyone know how to do the following?

i have a BAT Script which has the following in

Rgprefresh /m:COMPUTERNAME /force

i want it so that when i run it asks for the COMPUTERNAME and inserts it into the script

any ideads

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You can use "copy con" if you are willing to press ctrl+z before enter... If not, you can work around it a bit but see if this is ok first (demo below).

@echo off
echo Enter some text, followed by ctrl+z, enter
copy con userin
echo you typed: 
type userin
pause

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update: Just remembered, you may want to delete the temp file "userin" once your script is completed. Can of course be done automatically from within the batch file.

[barne77]

not sure how u mean how do i add it to the file i need

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Replace the line

Rgprefresh /m:COMPUTERNAME /force

with

echo Enter the computer name (followed by ctrl+z then enter)
copy con COMPUTERNAME
Rgprefresh /m:COMPUTERNAME /force
del ./COMPUTERNAME

[zappp64]

do you mean a batch file

if so you have two options

1 - use your enviroment variable

so in the batch file the variable COMPUTERNAME needs to be %COMPUTERNAME% - therefore you can run this on any computer and the batch file will use the enviroment variable and parse it to the command

thus you batch file would be

Rgprefresh /m:%COMPUTERNAME% /force

2 - use the variable in a batch file

in your batch file subsititue the variable COMPUTERNAME to %1

when you run the batch file you run it with the computer name

thsui you batch file would be

Rgprefresh /m:%1 /force

so for example if the computer name is OFFICE you run as follows

<batch file> %1

and the name OFFICE is parse to the batch file under the variable %1