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[YouEnjoyMyself]

I need to make up a perl script or a shell script for windows that runs the following command on a list of tapes:

"bpexpdate -m <mediaid> -d 0 -justmedia"

Can some one please help?

Thanks in advance

 

[RustyMajor]

The way I do it, in Windows, is to fire up excel, and put in the "bpexpdate -m" part in one cell, leave a blank cell (which will hold the tape number), then put in "-d 0 -justmedia". Next, I'll copy these down the page so I have a bunch of them. Then, I either hand type all tape numbers (only if there's a few), or paste them from another excel spreadsheet. After that, I save it as a .bat file and go run it.

It really seems like it's more trouble than it is. I could probably do this on 50 tapes in less than 5 minutes. I guess I could write script to expire tapes in "tape.txt" file, but the hard part is getting the tape numbers you want to expire.

 

[jdespres]

hhhhhmmmmm.....

I work primarily with unix.... [please see note below]

I would create a flat file with the list of tapes... then use it in a "for loop"

##----------- cut Here -----------##
for i in `cat tape_list`
do
echo "***************** $i *****************"
bpexpdate -m $i -d 0 -justmedia
done
##----------- cut Here -----------##

Note: If you have plenty of disk space on that winders system you can install "cygwin" and perform this within cygwin.....

 

[YouEnjoyMyself]

Thanks Rusty I think I will give that a shot. Never really thought of using Excel in that way at all.

 

[letournp]

Hi there,

U should use a text file with the name of your tape one per line name, "TAPE_EXAMPLE.txt"

then, have a script named "TAPE_EX.cmd"
FOR /F %%i IN (TAPE_EXAMPLE.txt) DO bpexpdate -m %%i -d 0 -justmedia
(one line)

call your script...
Un can update ur text file, and never have to re-edit your script