pause or wait with batch script to process all information

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Does anyone know how to make batch files wait after they have processes information...for example, it would wait to process all the information, write that info to a text file, and then send and email. The problem I am running into is that it only writes part of the data to a text file, not waiting till that part of the script is done and going straight to sending an email. Here's my script, thanks to anyone who can help.

@ECHO OFF
TITLE Website Check

REM -----------------------------------
REM

SET MachineList=MachineList.txt
SET ResultsFile=Results.txt

REM
REM -----------------------------------

CLS
ECHO.
IF NOT EXIST "%MachineList%" (
ECHO Cannot locate Machine List: %MachineList%
PAUSE>NUL
GOTO :EOF
)

ECHO Processing all machine names in %MachineList% . . .
ECHO.

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%M in (%MachineList%) do CALL :CHECK "%%M"

GOTO :EOF

:CHECK
SET Machine=%~1
SET Machine=%Machine: =%

PING -n 1 -w 1000 %Machine%>NUL
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ECHO %Machine% did not respond at %Time%>>%ResultsFile%

CSCRIPT.EXE SENDMAIL.VBS -?

EXIT /B

:EOF

I have tried the sleep and pause command and those both do not work...

 

[ShadowFox333]

You could split up the processes into two batch files.
Bat file 1 would be all the lines above except
cscript email.vbs
bat file two would contains something like
if exist sonmething call cscript email.vbs.

so a bat file lets say one.bat looks like the following.

call bat file 1
call bat file 2

the call command says wait till bat file 1 is done
then call bat file 2.

Hope this helps you

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

I'm not sure that I understand how to do this...I would take out the "CSCRIPT.EXE SENDMAIL.VBS -?" and then make another batch script that will call run when the first one is done...but how would it know that the first one is done?

 

[ShadowFox333]

There are three .bat files a, b, and c.
you run a
a calls b
then
a calls c

b contains all the code but the running of cscript
c calls cscript

When you CALL a batch file it suspends processing
until the called .bat file exits.

Bob

 

[ShadowFox333]

Another thing you can do is put the cscript line after
the :EOF

Bob

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Ok I think I understand now, I will give that a try.

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Putting cscript after EOF didn't work...I tried the other way too but I dont think I have it set up right. At the end of my script I would put:

CALL SENDMAIL.bat

And then in that batch file I would put:

cscript SENDMAIL.vbs

Will that work?

 

[ShadowFox333]

Yes, That should work.
The reason the :Eof thing does not work
is that :EOF when used as a goto tag
causes an imediate exit and not a branch to a :Tag.
If you change :EOF to :anything it should work

Bob

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Thanks I have it working now.

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Sorry I have one more question, what command would I use if I wanted the text file that I have the information writing to, to overwrite itself everytime the script runs?

 

[ShadowFox333]

At the very beginning of the script use this assuming your file is named file.txt

IF EXIST FILE.TXT DEL FILE.TXT

Bob

 

[n3tw0rkadm1n1strat0r]

Thanks that works.