use variables from txt file?

[cameramonkey]

I am trying to automate some simple commands to replicate some new folders to all of my identically configured servers.


is there a way to pull a list of variables from a txt file so that I can acheive the following:

mkdir \\[server1]\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
mkdir \\[server2]\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
mkdir \\[server3]\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
mkdir \\[server4]\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
...

the txt file would have the following
server1
server2
server3
server4
server5
...

I am trying to start with a list of the servers that I want to include, so that as servers are added and removed, I only have to change the txt file and the bat file above will follow along with no changes. This file is already used as a reference by other apps, so those changes are already done for other reasons.

I am already setting the variables (%dir%, etc)on the fly with user input each time the script is run, and I just need to pull the servernames from the txt file to complete the puzzle.

TIA

 

[MiggyD]

Ok, so which of these command do you know about?

OPEN,
INPUT (or LINE INPUT as needed),
CLOSE,
EOF, and possibly either
DO/LOOP or FOR/NEXT


Did you try using the HELP file(s)?

Also, what IDE are you using: QBasic? QuickBASIC? BATCH? or other??

What do you have already for code?
--MiggyD

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[cameramonkey]

I am at the "know enough to be dangerous" level of experience. I'm a network/OS guy, not a programmer by nature. to use the requisite car analogy; I can drive, build and fix the car pretty well, but I cant make a new part for said car.

The its a Batch file, and so far I have everything except the mechanism to get the info from my txt file full of server names into the batch file when it runs.

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set /p drive=what drive do you want it on?:
set /p path=where on the drive do you want it?:
set /p dir=what is the name of the directory?:

mkdir \\server\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
mkdir \\server\%path%$\%path%\%dir%
.....
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as you can see I can "variableize" (is that even a word?) everything except the server names I have stored. If I wanted to do a one-off I could by setting another path variable, but I dont feel like running this script 30x by hand each time I want to do it, or having to remember to add/remove the appropriate line of code that has to do with a server that has been added or removed since the last time it was run.

Thanks.