Question

so i’m trying to figure this out and i don’t think my scripting skills are up to par. 🙁

basically what i’m trying to do is this.

have a script call a file, the file has a list of members servers that i want to look through. i want to search for a file on each one of those servers and then spit out a log that lists that file’s path.

so.. for example the file that is to be referenced is text.txt and within that file lists server 1, 2, 3.

i want to scan each server in this path c:\temp\ all sub dirs and look for file.exe

then spit out a log that displays the server and its path location of file.exe

server1 c:\temp\dir1\file.exe
server2 c:\temp\dir3\dir5\file.exe

anybody??? 🙁

thanks in advance!

this is what i’ve done so far…

@ECHO OFF
SET FLNM=file.exe
SET DRV=c
SET DIRS=temp
IF NOT DEFINED FLNM GOTO NAME
IF /I "%FLNM%"=="/Q" GOTO :EOF
SET FLNM=%FLNM: =.%
:DV
IF NOT DEFINED DRV GOTO DV
IF EXIST RESULTS.TXT DEL RESULTS.TXT
IF DEFINED DIRS SET DIRS=%DIRS: =.%
FOR %%D IN (%DRV%) DO (
    FOR %%G IN (%FLNM%) DO (
        IF DEFINED DIRS (
            FOR %%C IN (%DIRS%) DO (
                DIR %%D:\ /L /B /S|FINDSTR /I /E \%%C.\%%G>>RESULTS.TXT
            )
        ) ELSE (
            DIR %%D:\ /L /B /S|FINDSTR /I /E \%%G>>RESULTS.TXT
        )
    )
)
CALL :ZEROBYTE RESULTS.TXT
IF NOT EXIST RESULTS.TXT ECHO:"FILES NOT FOUND">>RESULTS.TXT
START NOTEPAD RESULTS.TXT
EXIT /B
:ZEROBYTE
IF %~Z1==0 DEL RESULTS.TXT
GOTO :EOF

i can get this to run locally on each but i rather run it centrally. also i can’t seem to get it to look under all the directories. if i list a directory, it only scans within that root only.

Answer 1

If test.txt is formatted like this:

server1
server2
server3

then you could do this:

for /f %s in (test.txt) do dir/s/b \\%s\c$\temp\file.exe

Note that you need to be a domain administrator to do this for remote Windows Vista/7/Server 2008/R2 computers, but for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 you only need to have local administrator rights to each PC.

Alternatively you could share the temp folder on each PC e.g. using net share temp$=C:\temp and then you could use \\%s\temp$\file.exe instead, then you would only need normal share and file permissions.