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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Program to identify and delete empty folders in a tree

« on: June 10, 2013, 07:43 AM »

Is there a command line version of this program?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA : program which waits will specified programs complete

« on: December 27, 2012, 08:45 AM »

hi 4wd,
This is what I wanted.
Thanks a lot.  Much appreciated.

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Finished Programs / IDEA : program which waits will specified programs complete

« on: December 27, 2012, 05:47 AM »

This is my requirement...
I am running many instances of xxcopy.exe in multiple command line windows.
I need to shutdown the PC after all the xxcopy.exe process completes.
I need a program which waits till all xxcopy.exe instances are completed

example :- i could write a batch file which has below contents
----------------------------
myprog.exe xxcopy.exe
shutdown -s
----------------------------
The program should wait and then execute the shutdown.


or if i have xxcopy.exe, java.exe, oracle.exe processing running, and I need to send an email after all three have completed...
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myprog.exe xxcopy.exe java.exe oracle.exe
sendmail -to [email protected] -subject "complete"
----------------------------

Is such a program possible?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 26, 2012, 12:08 AM »

Attaching the binary and source code in a zip file.

Thanks Ath and rjbull for their help.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 21, 2012, 04:35 AM »

Yes Ath, and thank you for that.
I was trying to replicate the functions of your utility... but it was too much work
so, I settled with a "one function only" utility

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 21, 2012, 01:53 AM »

I have written a C program which will do only what I had described as a requirement, ie.. wait till next day...
The source code is below...
/********************************************************************************/
/*
This program compiles fine on Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.
Generated exe is 96kb in size.  How to reduce the size?
*/
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "time.h"

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    if(argc > 1) {
        printf("This program sleeps till the end of current day. ie.. exits when a new day starts.\n");
        return 0;
    }
    bool nextDay = false;
    char* inputDate = "";
    char* inputTime = "";
    struct tm *newtime;
    time_t long_time;

    time( &long_time );                /* Get time as long integer. */
    newtime = localtime( &long_time ); /* Convert to local time. */
    int currentDate = newtime->tm_mday;


    for( ;; ) { /* loop as along as required */
        _sleep(1000);
        time( &long_time );                /* Get time as long integer. */
        newtime = localtime( &long_time ); /* Convert to local time. */
        //printf( "%.19s %s\n", asctime( newtime ), am_pm );
        int newDate = newtime->tm_mday;
        if(currentDate != newDate ) { /* exit out of loop when date changes . ie.. next day */
            break;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

/********************************************************************************/


Hope this helps someone.
Will attach binary tomorrow.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 14, 2012, 03:10 AM »

Ath,
Is there a way to specify that I need to wait till the next day?  I do not want to update the script everytime to give the next day's date in the command.

for example:-
instead of
SleepTill.exe 2012-11-15
or
SleepTill.exe 2012-11-16

I should be able to give
SleepTill.exe NEXTDAY
or something similar.

regards

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 05, 2012, 04:52 AM »

hi Ath,
Thanks a lot. That is exactly what I was looking for.
Anyways, I scraped vbscript code from the internet and wrote one myself .
Am posting the code here .. may be it will help someone else


'================================================================================
'start of script
'
'Usage: wait.vbs 16:30
'Sleep till 4.30PM and then exits

Option Explicit

Dim WshShell
Dim strEventInfo
Dim intSeconds, intMicrotime

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'================================================================================

dim inHour
dim inMinute
dim segments
segments = Split(WScript.Arguments.Item(0),":")
inHour = segments(0)
inMinute = segments(1)
inHour   = CInt(inHour)
inMinute = CInt(inMinute)
'Wscript.Echo "Hour   = " & inHour
'Wscript.Echo "Minute = " & inMinute

'================================================================================
while( (currHour <= inHour) and (currMinute < inMinute))

    dim now1
    now1=now()
    'Wscript.echo now1
    segments = Split(now1," ")
    dim timeComponent
    timeComponent = segments(1)
    'Wscript.echo "timeComponent = "+timeComponent
    dim currHour, currMinute, currSeconds
    segments = Split(timeComponent,":")
    currHour    = segments(0)
    currMinute  = segments(1)
    currSeconds = segments(2)
    'Wscript.echo "currHour    = "+currHour
    'Wscript.echo "currMinute  = "+currMinute
    'Wscript.echo "currSeconds = "+currSeconds
    currHour    = CInt(currHour)
    currMinute  = CInt(currMinute)
    currSeconds = CInt(currSeconds)

    'Wscript.echo currHour & ":" & currMinute
    WScript.Sleep 1000
wend
'================================================================================
'end of script

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 02, 2012, 08:00 AM »

What I had in mind was similar to sleep.exe, which will block the execution till the time is complete.
The "opening hours" program is like a scheduler.  It cannot be used inside a batch file

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 02, 2012, 06:25 AM »

Thanks a lot for the immediate response.
I will look at that program and see if it meets my need.

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Finished Programs / DONE: Run At Specified Time

« on: November 02, 2012, 05:15 AM »

We all know the sleep utility.  It takes as parameter the number of seconds to sleep before it exits.
I am looking for a command line utility which will SLEEP TILL A SPECIFIED TIME

example:-

sleeptill.exe 03:30

This program sleeps until the computer time is 03:30AM, and then exits.
It can be enhanced with date parameters also.
example :- sleeptill.exe 2012-11-02:03:30

This program can be used as a alternative to the windows task scheduler.  And can be used in batch files and so on...