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Assistance Required With Batch Files

September 15, 2004 By Aaron

We have been doing a Microsoft Office 2003 push here at work and have come down to the final workstations on the final subnet. What I would like to do is write a batch file that will scan every computer on our domain and search for the existence of a c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\ directory. If it exists, we continue on to the next computer. If it doesn’t exist, append the computer name to the end of a file in a shared directory (common).

Unfortunately, my DOS batch skills wane in the face of linux bash shell scripting.

Anybody have any ideas?

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Filed Under: Aaron Brazell Tagged With: batch files, microsoft, office 2003, Programming, windows

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Comments

  1. Vinnie Garcia says:
    October 13, 2004 at 11:52 am

    I think New Jersey is planning a simliar route for electoral votes. I heard something about it on the news a few weeks back.

  2. Aaron says:
    September 15, 2004 at 1:55 pm

    Not at all. It’s just the freeest solution I can find. :) I have no budget money to buy anything.

    I don’t know anything about Kixstart so please enlighten me. :)

  3. Vinnie Garcia says:
    September 15, 2004 at 2:40 pm

    I think New Jersey is planning a simliar route for electoral votes. I heard something about it on the news a few weeks back.

  4. Aaron says:
    September 15, 2004 at 2:55 pm

    Not at all. It’s just the freeest solution I can find. :) I have no budget money to buy anything.I don’t know anything about Kixstart so please enlighten me. :)

  5. Jeremy C. wright says:
    September 16, 2004 at 3:53 pm

    Feel free to give me a call (if you’re allowed): 204 787 1732. I can get you up to speed on it fairly quickly (and send you some of our internal scripts for doing just the kind of thing you’re doing).

  6. Aaron says:
    September 16, 2004 at 4:04 pm

    I can’t call Canada but if you felt inclined, you could email me or catch me on MSN sometime. :)

  7. Jeremy C. wright says:
    September 16, 2004 at 4:53 pm

    Feel free to give me a call (if you’re allowed): 204 787 1732. I can get you up to speed on it fairly quickly (and send you some of our internal scripts for doing just the kind of thing you’re doing).

  8. Jeremy C. wright says:
    September 16, 2004 at 4:56 pm

    Can you email me your phone number? I can call you. I’m here all night dealing with a SAN issue anyways.

    My email at work is the one for this entry.

  9. Aaron says:
    September 16, 2004 at 5:04 pm

    I can’t call Canada but if you felt inclined, you could email me or catch me on MSN sometime. :)

  10. Jeremy C. wright says:
    September 16, 2004 at 5:56 pm

    Can you email me your phone number? I can call you. I’m here all night dealing with a SAN issue anyways.My email at work is the one for this entry.

  11. Allan says:
    April 11, 2005 at 10:51 am

    You really should look at the cygwin project, http://www.cygwin.com, sponsored by Redhat.

  12. Allan says:
    September 16, 2004 at 7:03 pm

    You really should look at the cygwin project, http://www.cygwin.com, sponsored by Redhat.