Batch Script Help Needed (Windows 7)

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Batch Script Help Needed (Windows 7)

4 comments, 204 views, posted 10:51 am 12/06/2012 in Requests by mohit_117
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Hi!

I'm trying to create a TOGGLE batch file (.bat) and haven't been able to get it to work perfectly...

I have a file in my folder, test: "abcd.cbca" ... I need to toggle the extension of that file from .cbca to .__cbca.
So whenever I execute the batch, it should :
rename abcd.cbca to abcd.__cbca
Or if it had been renamed yesterday, it should rename it to abcd.cbca
ie
a toggle between the file name whenever the batch file is exeuted.

Here's the code I'm trying out, but it doesn't work...

Code:

@ECHO OFF



CD "E:\test"



IF EXIST abcd.__cbca (

ren abcd.__cbca abcd.cbca 

) ELSE (

ren abcd.cbca abcd.__cbca

)



PAUSE

CLS

EXIT

I'm getting an error that the ELSE command is not a dos command...

-Mohit.

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11:56 am 12/06/2012

waints

Put the entire if/else on one line and see if it works
IF EXIST abcd.__cbca (ren abcd.__cbca abcd.cbca) ELSE (ren abcd.cbca abcd.__cbca)

12:02 pm 12/06/2012

mohit_117

It's worked!!
I had kept the file in E drive, and somehow it wasn't renaming that file...

Just changed the file location to C drive, and it worked!!!

Thanks for the help waints.. I guess the dos mode required to change drive before entering the directory via C: or E: ... and that's why it was showing an error of "file not found"

12:18 pm 12/06/2012

mohit_117

Code:

@ECHO OFF



CD "C:\test_data"



IF EXIST abcd.__cbca (ren abcd.__cbca abcd.cbca 

ECHO "File was off, now Turned ON") ELSE (ren abcd.cbca abcd.__cbca 

ECHO "File was on, now Turned OFF")



PAUSE

CLS

EXIT

EDIT: Working perfectly now...!!

3:41 pm 12/06/2012

bytehead

pushd e:\test_data

Changes the subdirectory AND the drive in one go. And then a popd puts you back where you were at.

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