Dot Sourcing - Batch File

Hi guys.
So I have a script that has some functions in it. Lets call the script ScriptTest.ps1
Now on the Powershell command line I am calling and using this script thus
. .\ScriptTest.ps1
Then I am running function called ScriptFunc and parameter called ScriptPars
ScriptFunc ScriptPara
This works fine from the Powershell command prompt. Now I have a requirement to execute this from a .BAT file.
If I execute
powershell -noexit -command . .\ScriptTest.ps1 then it loads the script. What I cant seem to do is pass it the Function and Parameter. I have tried
powershell -noexit -command . .\BackupRestoreMigrate.ps1 ScriptFunc ScriptPara and everything in-between.
Can anyone explain how I can get this to run via a batch file?
Many thanks

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@echo off
rem extract_nested_archives.bat
move %1 "%TMP%"\%2
md %2
7z x -o%1 -y %TMP%\%2
del "%TMP%"\%2
for %%a in (zip rar jar z bz2 gz gzip tgz tar lha iso wim cab rpm deb) do forfiles /P %1 /S /M *.%%a /C "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE extract_nested_archives.bat @path @file"
ARCHIVES ARE DELETED DURING THE EXTRACTION! Make a copy before running the script!
"7z.exe" and "extract_nested_archives.bat" should be in folders available via the %PATH% environment variable.
The first parameter of extract_nested_archives.bat is the full path name of the archive or folder that should be fully expanded; the second parameter is just the archive or folder name without the path. So you should run "c:\temp\extract_nested_archives.bat
c:\temp\outer.rar outer.rar" from the command line to completely expand "outer.rar". "c:\temp" must be the current folder.
Best regards, 0x000000AF

Incredibly useful! Thank you so much. I did make a couple of small changes to make the script a little easier to use from the end-user perspective.
First - I don't like making the user input the redundant second parameter, so I added this snippet which extracts it from the first parameter. The first line of the snippet enables delayed expansion so that special characters in our file name don't
break anything. The second line pulls the parameter into a variable, and the 3rd line uses delayed expansion on that new variable. Before implementing delayed expansion I had problems with file paths which included parentheses.
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Set SOURCE=%1
For %%Z in (!source!) do (
set FILENAME=%%~nxZ
set FILENAME=%FILENAME:"=%
Anyway once that was done, I just used %FILENAME% everywhere in the script instead of
%2 (making sure to correct quotes as needed)
This way, to run my script all you need to run is:
C:\temp\extract_nested_archives.bat C:\temp\Archive.zip
Second - I didn't want to modify the Windows environment variable. So I replaced
7z with "%PROGRAMFILES%\7-zip\7z.exe"
I also replaced extract_nested_archives.bat with "%~f0" (which represents the full path+filename of the current script).
Here is my full script now. Tested on Windows 8 with the 64-bit version of 7-zip installed:
@echo off
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Set source=%1
For %%Z in (!source!) do (
set FILENAME=%%~nxZ
set FILENAME=%FILENAME:"=%
move /Y %1 "%TMP%\%FILENAME%"
md "%FILENAME%"
"%PROGRAMFILES%\7-zip\7z.exe" x -o%1 -y "%TMP%\%FILENAME%"
DEL "%TMP%\%FILENAME%"
for %%a in (zip rar jar z bz2 gz gzip tgz tar lha iso wim cab rpm deb) do (
forfiles /P %1 /S /M *.%%a /C "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE "%~f0" @path @file"

Problems Force Running a batch file

Hi There,
I am trying to force-run a batch file to copy files from a local NBO Appliance to the C:\tmp directory on the user's workstation. The batch file lives at c:\tmp\branding.bat.
I cant get the batch file to force run. Zen reporting advises that the batch file has distributed and launched successfully, however the files do not copy.
However, if i click on the icon for the batch file app - the files copy no problem. I have tried running Workstation Associated and (Unrestricted) User Associated as well as Workstation - Force Run as User.
Path to executable file:
%*WinSysDir%\cmd.exe
Parameters:
/c "c:\tmp\branding.bat"
Any ideas? The batch file has to refer to the P: drive as the application covers 40 different sites each with their own appliance containing source files.
Running NBO2 - ZFD 4 Agent 4.0.1.60 - Clientless
Desktop XP Workstations
Thanks
Thax

Have the app object copy the batch file to the hard drive from the
server and then run it locally. This should work with a Middle Tier server.
thax wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I cant use the actual server name as this is an application which runs
> through a middle tier server for multiple NBO sites so therefore needs to
> use the P: reference...
>
>>>> kokoo<[email protected]> 9/03/2006 12:37 >>>
>
> TRY edit Scrirts:
> #\\FS_SERVER_name\VOL\BATCH.BAT
>
> edit batch file:
> xcopy "p:\nal\wxp\ZenPolicies\Branding\*.*" "C:\tmp\ZenPolicies\Branding\"
> /s /v /e /y
> ==>
> xcopy p:\nal\wxp\ZenPolicies\Branding\*.* C:\tmp\ZenPolicies\Branding\ /s
> /v /e /y
>
> "thax" <[email protected]>
> *******:[email protected]...
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> xcopy "p:\nal\wxp\ZenPolicies\Branding\*.*" "C:\tmp\ZenPolicies\Branding\"
> /s /v /e /y
> pause
>
> Thax
>
> >>> Jeremy Mlazovsky<[email protected]> 8/12/2005 00:20
>
> Can we see the contents of your batch file?
>
> thax wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I am trying to force-run a batch file to copy files from a local NBO
> > Appliance to the C:\tmp directory on the user's workstation. The batch
>
> > file lives at c:\tmp\branding.bat.
> >
> > I cant get the batch file to force run. Zen reporting advises that the
>
> > batch file has distributed and launched successfully, however the files
>
> > do not copy.
> >
> > However, if i click on the icon for the batch file app - the files copy
>
> > no problem. I have tried running Workstation Associated and
> > (Unrestricted) User Associated as well as Workstation - Force Run as
> User.
> >
> >
> > Path to executable file:
> >
> > %*WinSysDir%\cmd.exe
> >
> > Parameters:
> >
> > /c "c:\tmp\branding.bat"
> >
> > Any ideas? The batch file has to refer to the P: drive as the
> > application covers 40 different sites each with their own appliance
> > containing source files.
> >
> > Running NBO2 - ZFD 4 Agent 4.0.1.60 - Clientless
> >
> > Desktop XP Workstations
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Thax
> >
>
>
Jeremy Mlazovsky
Senior System Engineer - Enterprise Desktop
UDit-Central Hardware Systems & Network Storage
University of Dayton
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?udimage
http://vmpconfig.sourceforge.net/
http://regeditpe.sourceforge.net

Error Happened at RFC Server Cannot Open the Job Batch File.

We have BW 7.0 and Data services 12.1. We are scheduling a Infopackage in BW that triggers a job in Dataservices server.
We had checked the connection between Dataservices source system in BW and RFC server on Dataservices side and these connections are good. on the 3rd party sellections tab in infopackage we specify the batch file name that we exported in Dataservices server. When we execute the infopackage we get the following error.
Error Happened at RFC Server Cannot Open the Job Batch File.
This error started occuring from yesterday and prior to that it was working fine. We are not understanding what changed in the system to cause this error.
Can anyone suggest any solutions for the above issue.
Thanks,
Naveen.

I'm not sure what the root cause would be here. Is the file still available ? Did file permissions change ? ...
But I wanted to point your attention to the fact that in Data Services/Data Integrator XI 3.2 (=12.2) we significantly enhanced the integration with BW. In XI 3.2, the RFC server is now integrated into the Data Services Management Console (so no need to start as a seperate executable) and you can start jobs from BW by just specifting the job's name in the repo (no need anymore to export execution commands to .bat files). So if upgrading to XI 3.2 is an option, things should go much smoother.
More details on the wiki : http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Loading+BW
Thanks,
Ben.

Pass Passord Variable to a Batch File using Execute Process Task

I have an FTP batch file that I want to execute using Execute Process Task. The content of the ftp (ftpscript.cmd) is as below:
open ftpsite
UserName
Password
ASCII
get file c:\temp\test.txt
bye
Using SSIS Execute process task, I was able to download data. I configured the Execute Process task as follows:
Executable: ftp.exe
Arguments: -s:"c:\temp\ftpscript.cmd"
The above works fine. But the problem is that I don't want to store the password value in the batch file for security/policy reasons. Please, is there a way I can pass the password value to the ftp executable or the batch file at run time?
I know how to get and store variables in SSIS but I don't know how to pass this kind of variable to the batch file just before execution.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.

you can dynamically generate the source (CMD) for the FTP and delete after the execution. The password can be stored in a secure database for example, not 100 % secure, but the best you can do.
Another option I did was an encrypted VBScript (also quite easy to open in plain text to some people).
Finally it can be a binary e.g. an EXE with the FTP called as process in it.
Arthur My Blog

Using packages breaks batch file

Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help me here.
I've been continuing work on somebody else's previous project, and everything is fine except for the batch file used to run the program from non development. I decided to use Eclipse to develop as opposed to the previous JCreator, and Eclipse gave an error unless I used packages, however this breaks the batch file
Here's the orginal text from the batch file -
java.exe -Xmx256m -classpath C:\InsTra\JARS\ant.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jaxen-core.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jaxen-jdom.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jdom.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\saxpath.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xalan.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xerces.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xml-apis.jar;c:\InsTra\code_files InsTra
The batch file is located in C:\InsTra, the external JARS are in a JARS subfolder, and the java and class files are in Code_files. The main class is InsTra. I get the error NoClassDefFoundError
I've tried making the last bit Code_files.InsTra in case it needed to reference the package, but I'm new to this I'm afraid so have little experience of this sort of thing.
Any help is welcome
Thanks
Daniel

Then either your compiled class is not on the classpath, or you have not used the correct class name. Or both.
The classpath must point to the root of the package hierarchy.
The class name must include the package name (which is dictated by the package line at the top of your source file).
The compiled class file must be in the correct directory.
Given the information that you have provided, your class file should have the following path:
c:\InsTra\code_files\Code_files\It should also have the following line at the top of the .java file:
pacakge Code_files;Class names are case sensitive. Remember that the class path points to the root of the package hierarchy, NOT each of the directories containing class files. For example, if your classpath is thus:
c:\fooYour class file is in:
c:\foo\foo\Spong.classWith a package of:
package foo;And you execute it with:
java -classpath c:\foo foo.SpongThen it will work. The following will not:
java -classpath c:\ foo.Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo foo.Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo Spong.class
etc.

Remove odbc system dsn using batch file and odbcconf

I create user system dsn entries by using a batch file and odbcconf call. I've found references here on how to do that, yet cannot seem to find any results on how to remove them using that same call. The library information (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee388579(VS.85).aspx) states add and modify a system dsn for configdsn and configsysdsn and references equivalent to SQLConfgDataSource function. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms716476(VS.85).aspx) but the config data source function has a a removal and this doesn't seem too.
Apologies for being obtuse, but I can't seem to locate it. Any links to how this is done from a batch file are much appreciated.
Regards,
NR.

John C is basically correct, you can remove a System ODBC data source via the registry, but there is apparently no way via odbcconf.exe. That is of course really stupid and poor programming!
John, however, forgot another important registry entry. That key deletion he mentioned will disable the odbc connection, but not remove it entirely. If you just do that and then open the "ODBC Data Source Administrator", you will find the
connection is still listed, but you can't remove it or modify it. It becomes completely screwed up! There is a value to delete as well which dictates if the connection is listed. Consider it the "header" to the data source.
Also, in Windows 2003 and 2008 at least, the registry key John C listed is not quite the location to modify either. This is where to find them in those OSs:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\%DSN%
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBC.INI\%DSN%
The "header" I reffered to is a string value in inside a key (not the whole key!)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources
The string value is the data source name. This entry must be removed to remove the data source listing entirely.
Here are some batch snipets for creating and then removing an odbc data source. I'm leaving out some premiliary chunks, but you can figure it out from here. If you can't, you probably shouldn't be messing with this stuff in the first place!
In these scripts, I create and remove a 32-bit data source in either a 32-bit or 64-bit version of windows. The windows folder variable gets set to either "C:\Windows\System32" or "C:\Windows\SysWOW64" depending on the os. In case you didn't
know, on a 64-bit machine there is are also 2 differrent versions of the "ODBC Data Source Administrator" gui tool and the data source lists differ (32-bit vs 64-bit lists). The 32-bit version on a 64 bit OS is found at "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe".
The one in the start menu will load the 64-bit version so you will never find your 32-bit connections there.
Note - for simplicity I use the database name as the user name and and the data source name as well (in case there was any confusion).
Create the connection like so:
echo Creating 32-Bit System ODBC Connection "%DatabaseName%"...
"!WindowsFolder!\ODBCCONF.EXE" CONFIGSYSDSN "!ODBCDriver!" "DSN=%DatabaseName%;Server=localhost;Port=3306;Database=%DatabaseName%;UID=%DatabaseName%;PWD=%DatabasePassword%"
And then remove it like this:
echo Removing 32-Bit System ODBC Connection "%DatabaseName%"...
if "%WindowsBits%"=="32" (
If Exist "!TempRegFile!" Del "!TempRegFile!"
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo.>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\%DatabaseName%]>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources]>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo "%DatabaseName%"=->>"!TempRegFile!"
regedit /s "!TempRegFile!"
) else (
If Exist "!TempRegFile!" Del "!TempRegFile!"
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo.>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBC.INI\%DatabaseName%]>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources]>>"!TempRegFile!"
echo "%DatabaseName%"=->>"!TempRegFile!"
regedit /s "!TempRegFile!"
If Exist "!TempRegFile!" Del "!TempRegFile!"

DSC powershell xwindowsprocess to execute batch file under different user account

DSC powershell run under "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".
I am trying to execute a batch file under different user account using xwindowsprocess in DSC resource kit.
I created a custom dsc resource with 3 parameters namely Exepath, Arguments, Credential.
I received those parameter values in settargetresource method.
CallPInvoke
[Source.NativeMethods]::CreateProcessAsUser(("$ExePath "+$Arguments), $Credential.GetNetworkCredential().Domain, $Credential.GetNetworkCredential().UserName, $Credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password)
I tested it by invoking a batch file and writing username under which it executes to a text file.
After executing, the output text file still contains the "Systemname$".

Configuration Sample_xService_ServiceWithCredential
param
[string[]]
$nodeName = 'localhost',
[System.String]
$Name,
[System.String]
[ValidateSet("Automatic", "Manual", "Disabled")]
$StartupType="Automatic",
[System.String]
[ValidateSet("LocalSystem", "LocalService", "NetworkService")]
$BuiltInAccount="LocalSystem",
[System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]
$Credential,
[System.String]
[ValidateSet("Running", "Stopped")]
$State="Running",
[System.String]
[ValidateSet("Present", "Absent")]
$Ensure="Present",
[System.String]
$Path,
[System.String]
$DisplayName,
[System.String]
$Description,
[System.String[]]
$Dependencies
Import-DscResource -Name MSFT_xServiceResource -ModuleName xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
Node $nodeName
xService service
Name = $Name
DisplayName = $DisplayName
Ensure = $Ensure
Path = $Path
StartupType = $StartupType
Credential = $credential
$Config = @{
Allnodes = @(
Nodename = "localhost"
PSDSCAllowPlainTextPassword = $true
#Sample Scenarios
$credential = Get-Credential
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